Quick Look: Four Types of Sentences

Jenna Perro: Today we're going to talk about four types of sentences and maybe some of these sentence types you already know about. The first type is a statement. This, I feel really confident we've been writing a lot of statements. A statement gives some facts and it ends in a, what is this? What is it? End in a ... everybody tell me.

Students: Period.

Jenna Perro: It ends in a period. Say statement.

Students: Statement.

Jenna Perro: Okay. There's a second type. Boys and girls, what does this one say?

Students: Question.

Jenna Perro: Question. Ends in a ...

Students: Question mark.

Jenna Perro: We ask questions to get more information and to learn something new. Maybe we're trying to figure something out. You would ask a question. So we have a statement, we have a question. This is the fun one. Do you know what this one says? Say, exclamation!

Students: Exclamation.

Jenna Perro: What does an exclamation end in? Look at it, it looks different. What does it end in, Tristan?

Tristan: Like, a line and a dot.

Jenna Perro: Yeah, a line and a dot. A line in a dot is ... say, exclamation mark.

Students: Exclamation mark.

Jenna Perro: So a statement ends in a period. A question ends in a ...

Students: Question mark.

Jenna Perro: And an exclamation ends in a ...

Students: Exclamation point.

Jenna Perro: There's a fourth type of a sentence. I'm going to tell you about it, but we're not going to talk about it today. Are you ready to hear it? This word says, "command." Can you say command?

Students: Command.

Jenna Perro: Also ends in a period. Do you see how it's the same?