Sentence Types

Sentence Types

by Yevhenii Vyshnevskyi -
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Hi everyone! My name is Felix and I live in Kyiv, Ukraine. I am a teacher, but I don't like my job. Would you ask me what kind of job I want to have? I am gonna tell you that is definitely IT. Why? Because in IT, people make good money.

"Hi everyone!"

Function Exclamatory

Pattern Sentence Fragment (used as a greeting)

"My name is Felix and I live in Kyiv, Ukraine."

Function Declarative

Pattern Compound sentence (connected by and)

"I am a teacher, but I don't like my job."

Function Declarative

Pattern Compound sentence (connected by but)

"Would you ask me what kind of job I want to have?"

Function Interrogative

Pattern Complex sentence (contains a noun clause)

"I am gonna tell you that is definitely IT."

Function Declarative

Pattern Complex sentence (contains a that clause)

"Because in IT, people make good money."

Function Declarative

Pattern Complex sentence (starts with the dependent marker Because)