Introduction 3
Communicative Types of Sentences 4
Conclusion 10
Bibliography 11
Declarative sentences, or statements, form the bulk of monological speech and the greater part of conversation. A statement may be positive (affirmative) or negative:
I have just come from a business trip.
I haven’t seen my sister yet.
Grammatically, statements are characterized by the direct order of words.
A statement can be emphasized by the auxiliary verbs do, does, did put in front of the base form of the verb:
I do feel sorry for Roger.
Besides their main function of information carriers, statements may be used with the force of questions, commands and exclamations:
I wonder why he is so late.
You mustn’t talk back to your parents.
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