Starter quiz

  • What punctuation should go at the end of a declarative sentence?
    • Full stop  ✓
    • Question mark
    • Exclamation mark
  • What punctuation should go at the end of an exclamatory sentence?
    • Question mark
    • Full stop
    • Exclamation mark  ✓
  • What punctuation should go at the end of an interrogative sentence?
    • Full stop
    • Exclamation mark
    • Question mark  ✓
  • Exclamatory sentences are usually ...
    • compound sentences.
    • complex sentences.
    • simple sentences.  ✓
  • Why are exclamatory sentences usually simple sentences?
    • You don't want to overwhelm the reader with a complex emotional sentence
    • Simple sentences allow the immediacy and intensity of the emotion to be conveyed  ✓
    • Simple sentences delay the immediacy of the emotion
  • Match the sentence type to the example sentence.
    • Exclamatory sentence
      ⇔
      We are watching you! ✓
    • Interrogative sentence
      ⇔
      Was I being followed? ✓
    • Declarative sentence
      ⇔
      The cameras perched like sentinels on every corner. ✓
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