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8th Grade Reading

8th Grade Reading Question of the Day

Practice 8th Grade Reading with the production-style question-of-the-day selection for this public URL.

Question 1

Select the type of sentence that is provided:

Stop jumping on your bed, you might break something.

  1. Imperative
  2. Interrogative
  3. Declarative
  4. Exclamatory
Explanation: Looking at our answer choices, there are four types of sentences:
  1. A d eclarative sentence is a sentence that tells the reader about something, and it will always end with a period.
  2. An imperative sentence is a sentence that is a command, it tells someone to do something. This type of sentence will end in either a period or an exclamation point.
  3. An interrogative sentence is a sentence that asks something, it's a question. This type of sentence will always end with a question mark.
  4. An exclamatory sentence is a sentence that shows excitement, surprise, or a strong emotion. This type of sentence will always end with an exclamation point.
Let's look at the sentence from the question: Stop jumping on your bed, you might break something. This sentence is a command. It's telling someone to stop jumping on the bed. Sentences that are commands are called imperative sentences.