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Communication Skills-I Gowher Ahmad Naik, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 10: Kinds of Sentences

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
10.1 Sentence

10.2 Kinds of Sentences
10.2.1 Positive

10.2.2 Negative
10.2.3 Statement
10.2.4 Interrogative

10.2.5 Exclamatory
10.3 Summary
10.4 Keywords

10.5 Self Assessment
10.6 Review Questions
10.7 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

z Describe positive, negative, statement, interrogative and exclamatory sentences
z Realise how to use each type of sentence and how each type of sentence is structured
z Know the correct use of different types of sentences

Introduction

Can you think of happiness in a life where you cannot communicate your feelings to the others
around you? I am sure that the answer is “NO”.
How do we communicate? Through Letters? Words? Gestures? But have you ever thought that
all of these would not make any sense if there were no sentences. For those who are thinking that
how do gestures require sentences, can you think of interpreting a gesture without translating it
into a sentence?
Every language is nothing but a gargantuan collection of meaningful sentences.

Here, “meaningful” is the catch word.
Without being meaningful, a sentence has no use. For instance, think of a sentence where I say,

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