Types of Sentences

The word order depends on the sentence type. There are:

1. Statements (to state smth, etc.) (Set examples).
2. Imperative Sen-ces (to give a command, to ask for smth, etc.) (Set examples).
3. Questions (to ask for information) (Set examples).

 

Label the sen-ces as Imp., St., Ques.:

1. I love English a lot.
2. My best friends speak English to me every day.
3. Speak English to me, please.
4. Be my best friend.
5. Don’t keep silent.
6. Can you speak English?
7. You speak English very well, don’t you?
8. You speak French?
9. Why didn’t you learn to speak English?

Statements

In a sen-ce which is a statement the word order can be:

The Attribute – The Subject – The Predicate – The Attribute – The Object – The Adverbial

There are positive and negative statements. To make a negative statement with verbs “to be” and modal verbs like “can” we use the particle “not” only, with other verbs in a sentence - like “run”, etc. – we use “do not/don’t”, “does not/doesn’t” and “did not/didn’t”. (Set examples).

We can also use words with a negative meaning to make negative statements (never, no, nothing, nobody, none)