Sentence Structure

Purpose: 4 Types

1. Declarative: makes a statement

   	always ends in a period (.)
   	follows subject-predicate-complement order. This is a nice car.

2. Interrogative: asks a question

	always ends in a question mark (?)
	follows predicate-subject-complement order Do you know the name of that song?

3. Imperative: makes a request or gives a command

	ends in either a period (.) or an exclamation mark (!)
	usually follows the subject-predicate-complement order
	may have an understood subject; "you" is always the understood subject, and is written as (you) (You)Please give me directions to the store. "You" is the understood subject. Joseph should get out of the way of that car!

4. Exclamatory: shows strong emotion

   	always ends in an exclamation mark (!)
   	usually follows the subject-predicate-complement order I made an A on my test!
   	sometimes has predicate-subject-complement
   	or predicate-complement-subject