Sentences according to FUNCTION

I. Identify each of the following sentences as DECLARATIVE, INTERROGATIVE,

IMPERATIVE, or EXCLAMATORY. Write your answer before the number. (35 points)

A.
1. Did you eat your breakfast this morning?
2. Please explain to me how you studied for this test.
3. I would like to go to the beach now.
4. My neighbor's house is on fire!
5. Go get your shoes on!
6. Did you know the language test is tomorrow?
7. I think if you study you will do well on this test.
8. Help your brother with his homework.
9. You dropped your pencil on the floor.
10. This quiz is finally finished!

1. IN
2. IM
3. D
4. EX
5. EX
6. IN
7. D
8. IM
9. D
10. EX

B.
1. Are you aware of the appointment tomorrow
2. Eat your supper
3. Oh, what a beautiful morning
4. Today is my birthday
5. What gifts did you receive for your birthday
6. Pay the bill
7. Shh, don't make any noise
8. Have you finished your homework
9. Debby, turn off the light
10. Brian participated in the baseball tournament

1. IN
2. IM
3. EX
4. EX
5. IN
6. IM
7. EX
8. IN
9. IM
10. D

C.
1. "How beautiful a street is in winter!" (Virginia Woolf)
2. "Have the skillet hot and keep it well greased." (Ernest Hemingway)
3. "We boarded our train with feelings of unbounded relief." (James Weldon Johnson)
4. "Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank
bed and a pot of drinking water." (George Orwell)
5. Where were the blackbirds?" (Richard Jefferies)
6. "Always obey your parents, when they are present." (Mark Twain)
7. "The house was so big that there was always a room to hide in, and I had a red pony
and a garden where I could wander." (W.B. Yeats)
8. "Even now, the sight of an old, six-inch, worm-eaten cork brings fragrant memories!"
(Samuel H. Scudder)
9. "Why does a funeral always sharpen one's sense of humor and rouse one's spirits?"
(George Bernard Shaw)
10. "And whom should we see in the evening, but our two little boys, walking on each side
of a fierce, yellow-faced, bearded man!" (William Makepeace Thackeray)
11. "How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?" (Zora Neale Hurston)
12. "He was exceedingly poor, wearing only a ragged shirt and trousers." (James Huneker)
13. "Quietly go in, sit down, look at your man until you have seen him enough, and then
go." (H.G. Wells)
14. "I looked tired, but my complexion was good." (Emma Goldman)
15. "Not a man in London made a better boot!" (John Galsworthy)

Sentences according to STRUCTURE

II. Identify each of the following sentences as SIMPLE, COMPOUND, COMPLEX, or

COMPOUND-COMPLEX. Write your answer before the number. (25 points)

1. This is a simple sentence.

2. I like playing basketball, and my brother likes playing tennis.
3. I'll help you if you help me.
4. Her name is Sachiko and she comes from Japan.
5. My mother cooked dinner while I was doing my homework.
6. While I was doing my homework, my father cooked the dinner and my mother was
asleep in front of the television.
7. Do you want to go swimming tomorrow, or would you prefer to play tennis?
8. I've brought my umbrella with me in case it rains.
9. I don't know why he did that.
10. My family came to Germany when I was in grade 5, but I never learned to speak
German very well.
11. I'm so pleased that you can come to my party.
12. He told me that he is returning to London next summer.
13. I have not seen my grandmother since I came to Germany.
14. We were doing a mathematics test when the fire alarm rang yesterday.
15. She runs every day, so she is very fit.
16. Because she runs every day, she is very fit.
17. The new girl in our ESL class has a brother in grade 7 and a sister in grade 9.
18. You should read every day if you want to improve your English more quickly.
19. Although it was cold and the rain was getting heavier, we decided to go fishing as
planned.
20. You should start working a little harder or you are going to fail your test.
21. I didn't know what time it was so I was very late to class.
22. Most European countries now use the Euro, but the United Kingdom still uses the
pound (£).
23. To build a doll's house you need wood, a hammer, a saw, and lots of nails.
24. She failed her driving test because she didn't look in her mirror often enough.
25. He got up, walked over to the window, and jumped out.
 C.
1. exclamatory sentence- Virginia
2. imperative sentence
3. declarative sentence
4. declarative sentence
5. interrogative sentence
6. imperative sentence
7. declarative sentence
8. exclamatory sentence
9. interrogative sentence
10. exclamatory sentence
11. interrogative sentence
12. declarative sentence
13. imperative sentence
14. declarative sentence
15. exclamatory sentence

II.
1. simple – this is a simple sentence
2. compound
3. complex
4. compound
5. complex
6. compound complex
7. compound
8. complex
9. complex
10. compound-complex
11. complex
 12. complex
13. complex
14.complex
15. compound
16. complex
17. simple
18. complex
19. compound complex
20. compound
21. compound-complex
22. compound
23. simple
24. complex
25. simple

EXAM
FUNCTION

1. She carried her spectacles on a gold chain hung around her neck."
(Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings, 1984)
2. "What was the connection between reading and learning?"
(Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory, 1982)
3. "Is that all you want?"
(William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways, 1982)
4. "Don’t walk."
(Martin Amis, Money, 1984)
5. "Summer people move into the houses that had stood empty, unseen, and unnoticed all
winter."
(Annie Dillard, "Mirages," 1982)
6. "Have you ever considered leaving New York?"
(Constance Taber Colby, The View from Morningside, 1978)
7. "There she goes! The woman with the puffy ankles!"
(Dave Barry, "Revenge of the Pork Person," 1988)
8. "The shacks were built of one thickness of pine planking covered with tarpaper."
(Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, Farewell to Manzanar, 1973)
9. "She had backed just halfway out of the garage when the engine died."
(Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 1959)
10. "Don't ask him the time."
(William H. Gass, The Tunnel, 1995)
11. "The old lady had already risen and placed a saucepan on the fire to prepare the morning
milk."
(Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco, 1965)
12. "I stopped on a rise and looked back at the valley, which was vanishing in purple haze."
(Bill Barich, "Steelhead on the Russian," 1984)
13. "Would I, filled with bookish notions, act in a manner that would make the whites dislike
me?"
(Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945)
14. "I visited the spring often in those first years, and had friends there--a frog, a woodcock,
and an eel which had churned its way all the way up through the pasture creek to enjoy the
 luxury of pure water."
(E.B. White, "Progress and Change," 1939)
15. "If we object to corporal punishment, and I assume we do, on what grounds is this
objection based?"
(Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot, 1997)
16. "Cut out tissue as needed from inside the lips."
(Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death, 1963)
17. "Once when he was a boy, a man next door had gone crazy and had sat out in his back
yard pitching gravel around and hollering out to his enemies in a loud angry voice."
(Walker Percy, The Last Gentleman, 1966)
18. "Shout it out!"
(Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine, 1988)
19. "The pass was high and wide and he jumped for it, feeling it slap flatly against his hands,
as he shook his hips to throw off the halfback who was diving at him."
(Irwin Shaw, "The Eighty-Yard Run," 1955)
20. "We hunted old bottles in the dump, bottles caked with dirt and filth, half buried, full of
cobwebs, and we washed them out at the horse trough by the elevator, putting in a handful
of shot along with the water to knock the dirt loose; and when we had shaken them until
our arms were tired, we hauled them off in somebody's coaster wagon and turned them in
at Bill Anderson's pool hall, where the smell of lemon pop was so sweet on the dark pool-
hall air that I am sometimes awakened by it in the night, even yet."
(Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow, 1962)

STRUCTURE
Identify each of the following sentences as simple, compound, complex, or compound-
complex.

1. I made an airplane out of stone.

("Stone Airplane")
2. I put a piece of cantaloupe underneath the microscope.
("Nope")
3. Oaties stay oaty, and Wheat Chex stay floaty, and nothing can take the puff out of Puffed
Rice.
("Cereal")
4. “While fishing in the blue lagoon, I caught a lovely silver fish.
("The Silver Fish")
5. They say if you step on a crack, you will break your mother's back.
("Sidewalking")
6. They just had a contest for scariest mask, and I was the wild and daring one who won the
contest for scariest mask--and (sob) I'm not even wearing one.
("Best Mask?")
7. My voice was raspy, rough, and cracked.
("Little Hoarse")
8. I opened my eyes and looked up at the rain, and it dripped in my head and flowed into my
brain.
("Rain")
9. They say that once in Zanzibar a boy stuck out his tongue so far that it reached the
heavens and touched a star, which burned him rather badly.
("The Tongue Sticker-Outer")
10. I'm going to Camp Wonderful beside Lake Paradise across from Blissful Mountain in the
Valley of the Nice.
("Camp Wonderful")
11. I joke with the bats and have intimate chats with the cooties who crawl through my hair.
("The Dirtiest Man in the World")
12. The animals snarled and screeched and growled and whinnied and whimpered and hooted
and howled and gobbled up the whole ice cream stand.
("Ice Cream Stop")
13. The antlers of a standing moose, as everybody knows, are just the perfect place to hang
your wet and drippy clothes.
("A Use for a Moose")
14. We'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, and we'll go where the chalk-white
arrows go.
("Where the Sidewalk Ends")
15. If I had a brontosaurus, I would name him Horace or Morris.
("If I Had a Brontosaurus")
16. I am writing these poems from inside a lion, and it's rather dark in here.
("It's Dark in Here")
17. A piece of sky broke off and fell through the crack in the ceiling right into my soup.
("Sky Seasoning")
18. The grungy, grumpy, grouchy Giant grew tired of his frowny pout and hired me and Lee to
lift the corners of his crumblin' mouth.
("The Smile Makers")
19. If you were only one inch tall, you'd ride a worm to school.
("One Inch Tall")
20. The traffic light simply would not turn green, so the people stopped to wait as the traffic
rolled and the wind blew cold, and the hour grew dark and late.
("Traffic Light")

Below are the answers to the exercise on page one: Practice in Identifying Sentences by
Function.
1. declarative sentence – One writing
2. interrogative sentence
3. interrogative sentence
4. imperative sentence
5. declarative sentence
6. interrogative sentence
7. exclamatory sentence
8. declarative sentence
9. declarative sentence
10. imperative sentence
11. declarative sentence
12. declarative sentence
13. interrogative sentence
14. declarative sentence
15. interrogative sentence
16. imperative sentence
17. declarative sentence
18. exclamatory sentence
19. declarative sentence
20. declarative sentence

Here are the answers to the exercise on page one: Identifying Sentences by Structure.
1. simple sentence - Stone
2. simple sentence
3. compound sentence
4. complex sentence
5. complex sentence
6. compound-complex sentence
7. simple sentence
8. compound sentence
9. complex sentence
10. simple sentence
11. complex sentence
12. simple sentence
13. complex sentence
14. compound-complex sentence
15. complex sentence
16. compound sentence
17. simple sentence
18. simple sentence
19. complex sentence
20. compound-complex sentence