Kinds of Sentences Exercise

State whether the given sentences are declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory.

1. What do you want?

2. I don’t know him.

3. Get out of my sight.

4. Take this paper with you.

5. What a loss!

6. How beautifully she sings!

7. Stop it.

8. Is he an engineer?

9. Has she got a job?

10. They live across the border.

11. We are not dependent on them.

12. The children were playing in the park.

13. What a sheer waste of time!

14. Leave me alone.

Answers

1. What do you want? (Interrogative sentence)

2. I don’t know him. (Declarative sentence)

3. Get out of my sight. (Imperative sentence)

4. Take this paper with you. (Imperative sentence)

5. What a loss! (Exclamatory sentence)

6. How beautifully she sings! (Exclamatory sentence)

7. Stop it. (Imperative sentence)

8. Is he an engineer? (Interrogative sentence)

9. Has she got a job? (Interrogative sentence)

10. They live across the border. (Declarative sentence)

11. We are not dependent on them. (Declarative sentence)

12. The children were playing in the park. (Declarative sentence)

13. What a sheer waste of time! (Exclamatory sentence)

14. Leave me alone. (Imperative sentence)