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Imperative and Exclamatory Sentences. Mrs. Davis 4 th Grade http://www.quia.com/rr/45767.html. Imperative Sentences. Give a command or make a request. (think teacher sentences) Example: Close the door. Sit on your bottom. The subject is the understood you.
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Imperative and Exclamatory Sentences Mrs. Davis 4th Grade http://www.quia.com/rr/45767.html
Imperative Sentences • Give a command or make a request. (think teacher sentences) • Example: Close the door. Sit on your bottom. • The subject is the understood you. • You close the door. You sit on your bottom.
Exclamatory Sentences • Exclamatory Sentences show strong feeling or surprise. • An exclamatory sentence ends with an exclamation mark. • Example: • The house is on fire! • There is a mouse in the house!
Interjections • Interjections show strong feeling or surprise. An interjection is a phrase, not a complete sentence. • Example words: Wow!, Great !, Help!
Practice • Write E if the sentence is Exclamatory (!). Write I if the sentence is Imperative. • 1. Keep you eyes open for rocks.____ • 2. Give me the oar.______ • 3. We’re going to overturn! _____ • 4. Wow! That was a very close call! ____ • 5. Make sure that doesn’t happen again!__
Practice • Write the correct end punctuation for each sentence. Then write E if the sentence is exclamatory and I if it is imperative. • 6. Please catch some fish for supper __ , ___ • 7. I can’t believe how swift the current is __, ___ • 8. Use this pole for a fishing rod ___,___ • 9. I’m incredibly hungry ___,___ • 10. What a lot of fish you caught __, ___