Types of Sentences Quiz

Types of Sentences

• Interrogatives: Used to seek information, forming questions with no truth value.

  • Examples include:
    • "Is she your mother?"
    • "Did Kojo travel?"
    • "Which group are you in?"
    • "Is it raining at Legon?"
    • "Where is the Teaching Assistant?"

• Imperatives: Sentences that express commands, requests, or directives aimed at prompting an action, also lacking truth value.

  • Examples include:
    • "Take off your cap."
    • "Raise your hand."
    • "Pass me the cheque book."
    • "Could you direct me to the library?" (an implicit request)

• Declaratives: Statements that convey information, which can be evaluated as true or false, giving them a truth value.

  • Examples include:
    • "The exam has been cancelled."
    • "Ghana has a new Speaker of Parliament."
    • "A bachelor is sitting under the tree."
    • "A bachelor is an unmarried adult male."
    • "The bachelor has a good conscience."
    • "She is a good friend."

Recognizing Sentence Fragments

• Sentence Fragments: Incomplete sentences that do not express a complete thought and carry no truth value.
  • Examples include:
    • "If only I got to Ajo earlier."
    • "Rice and stew."
    • "The dean of students in the university of Ghana."
    • "Morning dew."

Emotive Expression

• Emotive Expressions: Sentences that convey feelings or exclamations, lacking rational evaluation and truth value.
  • Examples include:
    • "Oh. What a day!"
    • "Wow!, Brilliant!, Awesome!, Bravo!"
    • "Hey! Who do you think you are?!"

Types of Declaratives

• Factual Statements: Describe objective realities based on observation, evaluated as true or false.

  • Examples include:
    • "That bachelor sitting under the tree is sleeping."
    • "The president is taller than his opponent."
    • "The car knocked down the boy."
    • "Ama is a girl."
    • "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius."

• Value Judgments: Subjective evaluations that express opinions rather than factual statements about what ought to be.

  • Examples include:
    • "That bachelor has a good conscience."
    • "This knife has a good edge."
    • "It is wrong to talk back at your supervisor."
    • "Ama is a beautiful girl."
    • "The wicked driver knocked down the innocent boy."
    • "The president is more corrupt than his opponent."
    • "He is a good boxer."

Moral vs. Non-Moral Value Judgments

• Moral Value Judgments: Assessments regarding ethics and morality.

  • Examples include:
    • "Abortion is evil."
    • "You should not talk back at your supervisor."

• Non-Moral Value Judgments: Evaluations based on subjective preferences or opinions not relating to moral ethics.

  • Example:
    • "He is a good boxer."
    • "My phone has a good screen."