Basics of English

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Basics of English (Day 2)

Sentence is a group of words which expresses some meaning.
As earlier, parts of sentence were discussed, let us move to the kinds of Sentence,
Assertive/ Declarative Sentences
Interrogative sentences
Exclamatory Sentences
Imperative Sentences
Optative Sentences

Assertive Sentences:

A sentence that expresses a simple statement, fact or declares something. It can be a positive or a negative statement.
It is of two types:

Affirmative (Positive Sentences)

Negative (Negative Sentences)
She is a working woman.
She is not a working woman.
They went out in the afternoon.
They did not go out in the afternoon.
She will make a call to you.
She will not make a call to you.

Interrogative Sentences:

Questions, enquiries etc.
Are you okay?
Is she calling you?
Did you go there yesterday?
Do you know her?

Exclamatory: These sentences express our sudden feelings and state.

What a beautiful girl she is!
Wow! What a performance!
How rude she is!

Imperative Sentences:

These sentences express,

                                    a. Requests

                                    b. Commands/ Orders

                                    c. Advices

                                    d. Forbidding

Requests

Commands

Advices

Forbidding
Please lend me some money.
Call him right now.
You should obey her.
Do not peep out of the window of a running bus.
Could you please do me a favor.
Get back to the class.
You should go for a walk daily.
Do not run in the staircase.

Optative Sentences:

Sentences that express:  wishes, prayers, curses, blessings etc.

Wishes

Curses
May you live long!
May he be damned!
May you have loads of happiness in your life!
May you fail in your life!

Vocabulary Booster
facetious
Cleverly amusing in tone
His remarks were quite facetious.
Unkempt
Not neatly combed
His hair is unkempt. Tell him to get it kempt.
Scrupulous
Highly Principled.
Our teacher is a scrupulous fella.
Conspicuous
Very clear
His mistakes are conspicuous to us.
Pathetic
Poor
What a pathetic performer he is!
Sumptuous
Rich and superior in quality
I like to dine in sumptuous dining rooms.
Prankish
Annoyingly playful
He is such a prankish guy that no one wants to be with him.
Plodding
Slow and laborious
I was afraid to hear plodding steps in the night.
Floundering
Walking with great difficulty
He was floundering on his way back home.
Tremulous
quavering
He spoke timidly in a tremulous voice.


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