Declarative Sentences Exercises

1. What is a Declarative Sentence?

A question
A command
A statement or declaration
An exclamation

2. How does a Declarative Sentence usually end?

Exclamation mark
Period
Question mark
Comma

3. Which of the following is a characteristic of Declarative Sentences?

They always ask a question
They always make a command
They always make a statement
They always express strong emotion

4. What is a Simple Declarative Sentence?

Consists of two or more clauses
Consists of a single independent clause
Consists of one independent and one dependent clause
Consists of a question and an answer

5. What is a Compound Declarative Sentence?

Consists of a single independent clause
Consists of two or more clauses joined together
Consists of one independent and one dependent clause
Consists of a question and an answer

6. Which sentence is a declarative sentence?

What time is it?
Turn off the lights!
The sky is blue.
How beautiful!

7. What must a declarative sentence have?

A subject and a verb
A question mark
An exclamation mark
A command

8. What is an example of a negative declarative sentence?

The sun is shining.
I am not hungry.
What a beautiful day!
Please close the door.

9. Which of the following sentences is interrogative?

What time is it?
The sky is blue.
I love pizza.
It's a wonderful day.

10. Which type of declarative sentence includes at least one dependent clause?

Simple
Compound
Complex
Negative