ENGLISH SENTENCE STRUCTURE: FOUR TYPES OF SENTENCES
ENGLISH SENTENCE STRUCTURE: FOUR TYPES OF SENTENCES We have seen in a previous post that from the standpoint of content, intent and emotion, English sentences can be divided into four major kinds: Declarative or Assertive, Interrogative, Imperative and Exclamatory. We also learnt about clauses and phrases. However, from structural point of view, English sentences like those in many other languages are also classified into three different types. Depending upon the numbers of clauses and how they are linked to each other we have Simple, Compound, and Complex sentences. Besides that, many grammarians include Compound-Complex sentences as the fourth type. Simple Sentences Let us examine the following sentences; The Sun rises in the east. Sam is our neighbour. Kathmandu is the capital of Nepal. As we see, each of the above sentences is made of one subject and one predicate. In each sentence there is only one clause. These are simple sentences....