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FOUR TYPES OF SENTENCESDeclarative sentences form a statement;Tomorrow I will go to the store.?Yesterday I left school early.?I told her to wear the blue skirt.?She did not want to eat the pizza that I gave her.?We walked to the mall together.Interrogative sentences form a question;What do you think I should wear the pink shoes or the white sneakers??What did the teacher say to you yesterday??Did you go to the movies yesterday?Imperative sentences make a command or request; the understood subject of this type of sentence is “you.”(You) Get me some water.?Leave that cat alone.?Go to the store for me.?Bring me some ice.Exclamatory sentences attempt to show powerful feelings, or emotions;I'm leaving!?I cannot wait to graduate!?I love you so much!?We beat that other team good!?I can't believe how tall giraffes really are!?I can't believe this, I am so upset!SENTENCE CONSTRUCTIONSSimple sentence: A sentence with one independent clause and no dependent clauses."Children are all foreigners."(Ralph Waldo Emerson)"Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time."(Mark Twain,?The Mysterious Stranger)"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead."(James Thurber)"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph."(Ken Kesey)"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."(Alice Walker)"I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them."(Raymond Chandler,?The Big Sleep, 1939)Compound Sentence: A sentence with multiple independent clauses but no dependent clauses."They may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom."(Mel Gibson as William Wallace in?Braveheart, 1995)"The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended."(Arthur C. Clarke,?2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968)"Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't go to yours."(Yogi Berra)"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."(Oscar Wilde)Complex Sentence: A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.After Mary added up all the sales, she discovered that the lemonade stand was 32 cents short.While all of his paintings are fascinating, Jonas Wilde’s ink sketches, full of mayhem and madness, are the real highlight of his art."The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman stood up in a corner and kept quiet all night, although of course they could not sleep."(L. Frank Baum,?The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1990)"Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it by being a slave himself."(Abraham Lincoln, "Fragment on Slavery," July 1854)"Because he was so small, Stuart was often hard to find around the house."(E.B. White,?Stuart Little, 1945)"I learned a valuable lesson about cheating after I changed a mark on my report card in the third grade."("Making the Grade")"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."(Henry David Thoreau,?Walden, 1854)Complex-Compound Sentence: A sentence with multiple independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.Catch-22?is widely regarded as Joseph Heller's best novel, and because Heller served in World War II, which the novel satirizes, the zany but savage wit of the novel packs an extra punch.Although thought to be indestructible, the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, and that forever changed the NYC skyline. The Twin Towers were destroyed by terrorists, who thought they could tear the US apart, but instead, this tragedy brought the US people together.Of all the tragedies the US has suffered, the 9/11 terrorist attack killed more individuals than Pearl Harbor; therefore, it is the most tragic lost in American history.To this day, there is much controversy surrounding 9/11, and still, the American politicians swear they knew nothing prior to the attack.Cumulative aka Loose Sentence: An?independent clause?followed by a series of?subordinate constructions (phrases?or?clauses) that gather details about a person, place, event, or idea. A loose sentence could end at one or more points before it actually does, as the periods in brackets illustrate in the following example:It went up[.], a great ball of fire about a mile in diameter[.], an elemental force freed from its bonds[.] after being chained for billions of years."I write this at a wide desk in a pine shed as I always do these recent years, in this life I pray will last, while the summer sun closes the sky to Orion and to all the other winter stars over my roof."(Annie Dillard,?An American Childhood, 1987)"He dipped his hands in the bichloride solution and shook them--a quick shake, fingers down, like the fingers of a pianist above the keys."(Sinclair Lewis,?Arrowsmith, 1925)'We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change.'"(Stephen Wilbers,?Keys to Great Writing. Writer's Digest Books, 2000)Periodic Sentence: A long and frequently involved?sentence in which the main idea of the sentence is not completed until you reach the period."To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius."(Ralph Waldo Emerson,?"Self-Reliance,"?1841)"In the almost incredibly brief time which it took the small but sturdy porter to roll a milk-can across the platform and bump it, with a clang, against other milk-cans similarly treated a moment before, Ashe fell in love."(P.G. Wodehouse,?Something Fresh, 1915)"The proper place in the sentence for the word or group of words that the writer desires to make most prominent is usually the end."(William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White,?The Elements of Style) ................
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