Interrogative Sentences

Interrogative sentences differ from the declarative or interrogative ones by some their specific features.

There are two structural types of interrogative sentences in Modern English - general

questions (yes- or no- questions) and special (or wh-) questions. Both of them are characterized by

having partial inversions:

Are we staying here?

Where are we staying?

Besides, the first one has a special (rising) intonation pattern. The second one (whquestion)

has interrogative words. But the intonation pattern of wh-questions is identical with that

of the affirmative sentences.

And it is important to point out that the interrogative sentences require answers (if they are

not rhetorical ones).

Exclamatory Sentences

The peculiar features of these sentences are:

1. exclamatory sentences usually express some sort of emotion, feeling or the spirit of the

person who pronounces it;

2. in their structure they have such introductory words as what and how:

Ex. What a lovely night! How beautiful it is here!

3. they are always in the declarative form;

4. there’s usually no inversion;

5. they are pronounced with a falling intonation;

Imperative Sentences

The imperative sentences are opposed to non-imperative ones because.

1. In imperative sentences the predicate is used in only one form-in the imperative one,

while in non-imperative sentences predicate may be used in any form except the imperative.

2. In imperative sentences no modal verb is used.

3. The imperative sentences are most often directed to the second person.

4. The subject of the imperative sentences are almost always represented by the zero

alternant of you, that is, elliptically.

5. The imperative sentences urge the listener to perform an action or verbal response.

The above said is quite sufficient to characterize the structure of imperative sentences to be

specific and distinct from that of the structure of non-imperative sentences.