A group of words joined to create a complete meaning is called a Sentence. A sentence can convey different meanings. It can be an idea, a thought, a command, a request, or a question. It does not mean that you can arrange words in any order.
You have to know how to assemble words to produce a complete sense. Further, you should know different kinds of sentences to be able to communicate effectively. You also have to understand how to form a sentence correctly. It will bring a huge advantage in your communication skills. This knowledge will also help you a lot to produce a good piece of writing. Here in this short article, you are going to know about the definition and types of sentences. Further, you will get some relevant examples for your better understanding.
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Definition of A Sentence
A group of words assembled in a particular order generally containing a subject and a verb that conveys a thorough idea in the form of a question, exclamation, statement, or instruction and when it is written it begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop (.), an exclamation mark (!), or an interrogation mark (?) is called a sentence.
The largest unit of the English language is Sentence. Generally, it has at least a subject and a verb. Sometimes the subject remains hidden but the verb remains visible in sentences. A verb is the engine of a sentence.
Merriam-Webster describes a sentence as “a word, clause or phrase or a group of clauses or phrases forming a syntactic unit which expresses an assertion, a question, a command, a wish, an exclamation or the performance of an action that in writing usually begins with a capital letter and concludes with appropriate end punctuation and that in speaking is distinguished by characteristic patterns of stress, pitch and pauses”.
Examples
- Karim lives in Dhaka.
- His favorite game is football.
Parts of A Sentence
There are some parts in a sentence. You should have a basic idea about these parts. Learning these parts will make your understanding of Sentences better. These parts are Subject, Predicate, Direct Object, and Indirect object.
Subject
The part of a sentence that acts as the verb is called the Subject. It is the doer of a sentence. A noun, a pronoun, a noun phrase, or a noun clause can be the subject. In most cases, you will find the subject at the beginning of a sentence. For example:
- Kamal goes to school by bus.
Here the whole sentence is about ‘Kamal’. So ‘Kamal’ is the subject of the above sentence.
Predicate
The rest of the sentence except the subject is called Predicate. It contains the verb and other information about the subject. Generally, the area of the Predicate starts just after the subject. Exception can be seen in Imperative sentences where you will just have a predicate. The subject ‘you’ remains hidden. For example:
- Kamal goes to school by bus.
Here the subject is ‘Kamal’ and the rest of the sentence is Predicate. Whatever is told about the subject is Predicate.
Object
Generally nouns, pronouns, and noun equivalents are used as objects. There is no difference between the subjective and objective forms of nouns. However, there is a difference between the subjective and objective forms of personal pronouns. The subjective form of personal pronouns I, We, You, He, She, it, and They are used as subjects, while Me, Us, You, Him, Her, It, and Them are used as objects. After verbs and prepositions, objects are used
There are two types of objects. They are Direct object and Indirect object. Generally, direct objects answer the question ‘What’. Neuter nouns/pronouns are used as direct objects. Usually, indirect objects answer the question ‘Whom’. The masculine and feminine genders are used as Indirect objects.
Examples
- Direct: Kamal ate rice.
- Indirect: He is sending his friend an invitation.
- Direct: Raina reads a book.
- Indirect: She does not like to be with her cousin.
- Direct: She presents me with a book.
- Indirect: Our English teacher teaches us all four communication skills.
Types of Sentence
Sentences are divided into types depending on two ideas_ their structure and their function. Structurally sentences are four types. They are Simple, Complex, and Compound. Functionally sentences are of five types. They are Declarative/Assertive sentences, Imperative sentences, Interrogative sentences, Exclamatory sentences, and Optative sentences.
According to Structure
- Simple
- Complex
- Compound
- Complex-Compound
According to Function
- Declarative/Assertive
- Interrogative
- Imperative
- Optative
- Exclamatory
Learning different types of sentences is very important. If you use the same type of sentences over and over again, your speech and writing will be monotonous. It will distract your audience. On the contrary, if you use various types of sentences properly in your writing or presentation, it will keep your audience engaged and interested. Further, you can expect better grades in your exams. So let’s learn types of sentences one by one.
Simple Sentence
A sentence that has just an independent clause and does not have any dependent clause is called a Simple Sentence. It contains only one subject, and one finite verb, and creates a complete thought. Sometimes you will find compound subjects and verbs in a simple sentence, but there will be just a single independent clause.
Examples
- Kamal and Rahim play football on the field.
- She dances well.
- He runs fast to catch the train.
- The dog is barking outside.
- She sings a folk song.
- The dog is running after the thief.
- Samim jumps and laughs.
- Reza wants to be an English teacher.
- The cat loves milk.
- The rat is running here and there.
Complex Sentence
A sentence that has an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses is called a complex sentence. Subordinating conjunctions are used to connect the clauses. These conjunctions denote time, manner, place, or conditions. If the dependent clause comes before the independent clause, then you have to use a comma to connect them. But if the independent clause comes first, then you will not need any comma. At this point, the subordinating conjunctions themselves join the clauses. They are also called dependent clauses as they depend on the independent clause to produce a complete sense. some subordinating conjunctions are “Because”, “Till”, “Until”, “While”, “Since”, “As”, “If”, “Though”, “Although”, “That”, “As if”, “Than”, etc.
Examples
- I knew that you would buy a gift for me.
- When the thief saw the police, he jumped over the wall.
- She bought a smartphone after she had got her salary.
- When the price goes up, sales fall.
- Kamal does not want to go to school because he is ill.
- If you do not read attentively, you will fail in your exam.
- I know the man who is watering the plants over there.
- I want to know how to drive so that I can drive safely.
- I have a novel which is written by James Joyce.
- I know the place where he lives.
Compound Sentence
A sentence that has more than one independent/main clause is called a compound sentence. Remember there will be no dependent clause. A simple sentence has just a single independent clause while a compound sentence has more than one independent clause. You can use semicolons (;) or coordinating conjunctions to join the independent clauses. Some of the coordinating conjunctions are “And”, “Or”, “yet”, “So”, “otherwise”, etc.
Examples
- I wanted to eat biryani, but my mother made roti instead.
- The girl danced; the audience clapped.
- The cat ran to catch the rat but it escaped.
- He is neither rich nor honest.
- Winter is coming and we keep our fans off.
- I requested Karim to give my book back yet he did not return it.
- Kamal enjoys sports; Raina prefers cooking.
- The sky seems clear so I do not need to take an umbrella with me.
- My younger brother loves reading; he reads eight hours every day.
- He wants to become a teacher but his father wants him to become a lawyer.
Compound-Complex Sentence
A sentence that has more than one independent clause and at least one or more dependent clauses is called a compound-complex sentence. The name itself indicates that a compound-complex sentence will have characteristics of both compound and complex sentences.
Examples
- He knew that his annual exam was coming but he spent his time indiscriminately.
- He is reading a novel although he does not know many words and idioms he enjoys reading it.
- Though it is raining outside, Kamal has left for his college; he has an important exam today.
- Girls are singing and boys are dancing as the school has won a national competition.
- I decided to go for a morning walk, so I woke up early but I could not go for a walk as it started raining.
Assertive Sentence
The sentences that introduce a feeling/an opinion narrate things or state a universal truth or a habitual fact are called Assertive/Declarative sentences. In other words, it makes a declaration about something. Further, it provides information about something. It is a simple statement. You will see a period/a full stop at the end of these sentences. These sentences can be either positive or negative.
Examples
- I want to be a doctor.
- I am sad today.
- Today is Friday.
- The teacher is going to leave the classroom.
- Rahim is a good English teacher.
- The sun sets in the west.
- Plants have life.
- Every day I wake up at 6 a.m.
- I do not like milk.
- Ears do not eat rice.
Imperative Sentence
The sentence that we use to give an order or to make a request is called an Imperative Sentence. This type of sentence ends with a period/a full stop. unlike other types of sentences, imperative sentences begin with a verb. The subject ‘You’ remains hidden. It also conveys the meaning of advice, a command, a proposal, or a suggestion. But they can also take exclamation marks if they make emphatic expressions.
Examples
- Please do not waste your valuable time.
- Complete the homework now!
- Put off your shoes when you enter a mosque.
- Turn off the radio.
- Never tell lies to your mother.
- Respect your teachers.
- Let’s go to the zoo.
- Close the windows.
- Do not forget to take your English textbook in the next class.
- Keep your reading table neat and clean.
Interrogative Sentence
The sentence that we use to ask a question and to seek a piece of information is called an Interrogative sentence. A note of interrogation is used at the end of this type of sentence. These sentences can start with WH words, Be verbs, Do verbs, Have verbs, and Modal verbs.
Examples
- Where are you heading?
- Do you know Kamal?
- What is your village’s name?
- Which pen do you like?
- When are you going to Dhaka?
- Have you read Shakespeare?
- Are you feeling sick?
- Have you ever been to Rangamati?
- Would you please lend me your book for a week?
- Could I have your pen, please?
Exclamatory Sentence
A sentence that conveys profound, sudden, and strong emotions and feelings is called an Exclamatory sentence. These sentences express happiness, wonder, sorrow, anger, excitement, surprise, etc. Typically exclamation mark is used at the end of these sentences. Interjections like ‘Oh!’, and ‘Hurrah!’ are used in Exclamatory sentences.
Examples
- What a big mistake it was!
- What a wonderful view!
- Hurray! My brother passed the SSC examination.
- Alas! Her uncle has died.
- Oh my god! I have forgotten to take my wallet.
- What a joy!
- Yikes! That is a monster cockroach.
- Thanks! You saved my life.
- How beautiful she is!
- Oh no! She has lost her NID.
Optative Sentence
The sentences that you use to express your will and prayer are called the Optative Sentence. This type of sentences help us to convey deeper feelings of ours.
Example
- May Allah help the flood-affected people.
- Long live the president.
Questions & Answers of Different Job Exams
Previous job questions are very important for coming exams. For job exams like BCS, BJSC, NTRCA, Primary, and other government job exams you will find these questions. So a candidate must read these questions very carefully. We have finished the Sentence chapter. So now we need to practice more and more. The more you practice the more you become confident. Here we have discussed one hundred forty previous job questions on Sentence. The answer to each question is in Bold.
Previous Job Exam Question: Part One
1. A sentence is a _
- (a) group of words
- (b) collection of words
- (c) group of words that makes a complete sense
- (d) part of paragraph
Ans: (c) group of words that makes a complete sense
2. sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete
- (a) thought
- (b) paragraph
- (c) fragment
- (d) predicate
Ans: (a) thought
3. When we write sentence_
- (a) the object comes first
- (b) the predicate comes first
- (c) the subject comes first
- (d) the person comes first
Ans: (c) the subject comes first
4. A sentence must have
- (a) statement
- (b) description
- (c) group of words
- (d) subject and a finite verb
Ans: (d) subject and a finite verb
5. Because every sentence must contain a subject and a verb, how many parts does every sentence have
- (a) one
- (b) two
- (c) three
- (d) three is on hard and fast rule
Ans: (b) two
6. In English grammar how many essential parts must every sentence have?
- (a) one
- (b) two
- (c) three
- (d) four
Ans: (b) two
7. A ‘subject’ means
- (a) The agent of a sentence
- (b) The preceding of the adjective
- (c) The modifier of the sentence
- (d) The syntax of the sentence
Ans: (a) The agent of a sentence
8. Which one is the subject in the sentence? “To defrost the fridge takes ages.”
- (a) fridge
- (b) to defrost
- (c) frost
- (d) to defrost the fridge
Ans: (d) to defrost the fridge
9. The ‘predicate’ is a group of words which
- (a) denotes the statement
- (b) describe the subject
- (c) helps the subject
- (d) tells about the subject
Ans: (d) tells about the subject
10. The predicate of a sentence is
- (a) a verb
- (b) a person about whom something is said
- (c) what is said about subject
- (d) which determines the subject
Ans: (c) what is said about subject
11. An assertive sentence means
- (a) we affirm what is said
- (b) a negative form
- (c) a simple statement
- (d) comment or order
Ans: (c) a simple statement
12. “The boy has a book.” What kind of sentence is this?
- (a) Imperative
- (b) Negative
- (c) Optative
- (d) Assertive
Ans: (d) Assertive
13. ‘The wind is unfavorable.’ What kind of sentence is this?
- (a) Assertive
- (b) Interrogative
- (c) Imperative
- (d) Optative
Ans: (a) Assertive
14. Which one is the correct statement?
- (a) Do as I tell you.
- (b) Man is mortal.
- (c) Past is went.
- (d) Does I tell you?
Ans: (b) Man is mortal.
15. What type of sentence is it? “I wish you success in life.”
- (a) Assertive
- (b) Negative
- (c) Optative
- (d) Exclamatory
Ans: (a) Assertive
16. Which one is an interrogative sentence?
- (a) He reads a book.
- (b) Does he read a book?
- (c) He has read a book.
- (d) He will read a book.
Ans: (b) Does he read a book?
17. “Don’t you turn up in the meeting ever again?” What type of sentence is it?
- (a) interrogative
- (b) imperative
- (c) exclamatory
- (d) none of these
Ans: (a) Interrogative
18. Choose the correct sentence.
- (a) Do he have a house?
- (b) Does he have a house?
- (c) Does he has a house?
- (d) Do he has a house?
Ans: (b) Does he have a house?
19. Which one is an Interrogative sentence?
- (a) He reads a book.
- (b) Does he read a book?
- (c) He as read a book.
- (d) He will read a book.
Ans: (b) Does he read a book?
20. Choose the correct interrogative.
- (a) How old is Anis?
- (b) What is the age of Anis?
- (c) How the age of Anis is?
- (d) How many years Anis is?
Ans: (a) How old is Anis?
Previous Job Exam Question: Part Two
1. Choose the correct sentence
- (a) How old are you?
- (b) How you are old?
- (c) How old you are?
- (d) How are you old?
2. Choose the correct sentence from the following options.
- (a) How the servant does the work?
- (b) How do the servant does the work?
- (c) How doe the servant the work?
- (d) How does the servant do the work?
- (a) How often you
- (b) How often you do
- (c) How often do you
- (d) How often are
- (a) you are feeling
- (b) you feel
- (c) are you feeling
- (d) are you feels
- (a) I feel unwell.
- (b) I have a headache.
- (c) I wish I could fly.
- (d) How you like it.
- (a) How often do you visit your relatives?
- (b) How many homeworks do you get each week?
- (c) There is a few water in the glass.
- (d) She is not old as she looks.
- (a) Exclamatory
- (b) Optative
- (c) Imperative
- (d) Interrogative
- (a) Will you go to the park?
- (b) You will go to the park?
- (c) Will go you to the park?
- (d) Go will you to the park?
- (a) Which book you are reading?
- (b) Which book you reading?
- (c) Which book are you reading?
- (d) Which book your are reading?
- (a) for what is Dhaka famous?
- (b) What is Dhaka famous for?
- (c) Dhaka is famous for what?
- (d) Why is Dhaka being famous?
- (a) How was Gora written?
- (b) Who wrote Gora?
- (c) When was Gora written?
- (d) None of the above
- (a) What means this word?
- (b) What does mean this word?
- (c) What does this word mean?
- (d) What is this word mean?
- (a) You come from where?
- (b) Where you are come from?
- (c) Where do you come from?
- (a) Where did it happen?
- (b) Where is happened?
- (c) Where was it happened?
- (d) Where happened it?
- (a) Tell me why have you come here?
- (b) When you passed your Diploma Examination?
- (c) Why you are angry with me?
- (d) What time did you go to bed last night?
- (a) you did
- (b) did you do
- (c) had you done
- (d) did you
- (a) did you talked
- (b) you talked
- (c) talked you
- (d) did you talk
- (a) the poet
- (b) is the poet
- (c) does the poet
- (d) do every poet
- (a) Why have you done this?
- (b) Why you have done this?
- (c) Why did you have done this?
- (d) Why you had done this?
- (a) imperative
- (b) affirmative
- (c) interrogative
- (d) none
Previous Job Exam Question: Part Three
- (a) Assertive
- (b) Optative
- (c) Interrogative
- (d) Imperative
- (a) Optative
- (b) Imperative
- (c) Exclamatory
- (d) None of them
- (a) Be quiet and listen to my words.
- (b) How beautiful the flower is!
- (c) Do you go to club?
- (d) I go to school everyday.
- (a) Assertive
- (b) Imperative
- (c) Interrogative
- (d) Optative
- (a) Come and do my guest.
- (b) Come and be my guest.
- (c) Come and is my guest.
- (d) Come and has my guest.
- (a) Do it at once.
- (b) You read it attentively.
- (c) I wish your success in life.
- (d) Does he go to school?
- (a) I shall go
- (b) Go home
- (c) You did it
- (d) She is eating.
- (a) Simple
- (b) Imperative
- (c) Complex
- (d) Compound
- (a) Simple
- (b) Optative
- (c) Assertive
- (d) Imperative
- (a) What a wonderful picture it is!
- (b) Get some cold water form the fridge.
- (c) May God bless you.
- (d) They bought some utensils from the shop.
- (a) Please help me carry the box.
- (b) He has grown many herbs in his garden
- (c) Where had you been so long?
- (d) How nicely you have dressed yourself!
- (a) Interrogative
- (b) Imperative
- (c) Assertive
- (a) imperative
- (b) interrogative
- (c) simple
- (d) complex
- (a) Imperative
- (b) Optative
- (c) Exclamatory
- (d) Assertive
- (a) Assertive
- (b) Optative
- (c) Exclamatory
- (d) Imperative
- (a) Alas! My grandpa is no more.
- (b) Don’t you know that you need some time on your own?
- (c) Pick up the garbage and put this into the bin.
- (d) Jerry and I have been friends since childhood.
- (a) Assertive
- (b) Imperative
- (c) Optative
- (d) Exclamatory
- (a) Repeat it again.
- (b) Repeat it.
- (c) Repeats it again.
- (d) Repeat it against.
- (a) I shall go.
- (b) She is dancing.
- (c) You will sit here.
- (d) Sit down.
- (a) Stop reading loudly.
- (b) We live in a remote village.
- (c) May you be happy.
- (d) When will he come?
Previous Job Exam Question: Part Four
- (a) We live in a village.
- (b) Stop writing.
- (c) May you be happy.
- (d) When will he arrive?
- (a) How beautiful the flower is!
- (b) Never tell a lie.
- (c) Do you drink tea?
- (d) We drink milk every day.
- (a) What a pity!
- (b) Go you must.
- (c) May Allah bless you.
- (d) Help people with low income.
- (a) Assertive
- (b) Imperative
- (c) Optative
- (d) Exclamatory
- (a) Assertive
- (b) Optative
- (c) Exclamatory
- (d) Imperative
- (a) Affirmative
- (b) Assertive
- (c) Optative
- (d) Exclamatory
- (a) You should take care of your health.
- (b) I hope you will be able to get over your tensions.
- (c) May God speed up your recovery.
- (d) It’s better to pa attention to your daughter’s education.
- (a) Assertive
- (b) Optative
- (c) Interrogative
- (d) Imperative
- (a) live
- (b) lives
- (c) lived
- (d) living
- (a) Compound sentence
- (b) Exclamatory sentence
- (c) Interrogative sentence
- (d) None of the above
- (a) Assertive
- (b) Exclamatory
- (c) Optative
- (d) Interrogative
- (a) Assertive
- (b) Exclamatory
- (c) Optative
- (d) Negative
- (a) Exclamatory
- (b) Optative
- (c) Imperative
- Assertive
- (a) Assertive
- (b) Optative
- (c) Imperative
- (d) Exclamatory
- (a) Where are your luggages?
- (b) Can you give an advice?
- (c) What beautiful sceneries!
- (d) What an awful weather!
- (a) two clause
- (b) one clause
- (c) three clause
- (d) four clause
- (a) Only one subject and many verbs
- (b) Only one subject and one finite verb
- (c) Only one subject and two verbs
- (d) A subordinate clause
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) assertive
- (a) Read or write.
- (b) My younger brother and his friends play football in the national team.
- (c) I know the house where he lives.
- (d) I know that he will come here soon.
- (a) simple
- (b) compound
- (c) complex
- (d) none of these
Previous Job Exam Question: Part Five
- (a) The sun rose and the fog dispersed.
- (b) The fog being dispersed, the sun rose.
- (c) When the sun rose, the fog dispersed.
- (d) The sun having risen, the fog dispersed.
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) multiple
- (a) complex
- (b) simple
- (c) compound
- (d) negative
- (a) compound
- (b) simple
- (c) complex
- (d) optative
- (a) He is weak but is a hard worker.
- (b) Though he is weak, he works hard.
- (c) In spite of being weak, he works hard.
- (d) He is weak and hard worker.
- (a) I know that he is rich.
- (b) He is very weak, so he cannot walk.
- (c) In spite of his poverty, he is happy.
- (d) How soon he has come.
- (a) In spite of his poverty, he is happy.
- (b) I know that he is rich.
- (c) Do or die.
- (d) I respect him as he loves me.
- (a) He is poor but honest.
- (b) Though he is poor, he is honest.
- (c) In spite of his poverty, he is honest.
- (d) He is poor and honest.
- (a) Complex
- (b) Compound
- (c) Simple
- (d) Negative
- (a) If I make a promise I keep it.
- (b) You can talk as much as you like.
- (c) While there is life there is hope.
- (d) He will pay only under compulsion.
- (a) The Headmaster of our school is always ready to help the students.
- (b) Do or die.
- (c) I know the man who came ere.
- (d) The boy who came here is my brother.
- (a) simple
- (b) imperative
- (c) complex
- (d) exclamatory
- (a) I know the place where he lives.
- (b) It is the place where he lives.
- (c) I know the place of his living.
- (d) In know this places he lives here.
- (a) I saw that he was reading.
- (b) I saw him reading.
- (c) I saw him when he was reading.
- (d) I saw a man who was boring.
- (a) I want a car that I can drive.
- (b) I want a car to drive.
- (c) She danced as if she were an expert dancer.
- (d) I know what her name is.
- (a) simple
- (b) compound
- (c) complex
- (d) gerund
- (a) compound
- (b) simple
- (c) complex
- (d) negative
- (a) complex
- (b) compound
- (c) simple
- (d) none of them
- (a) simple
- (b) imperative
- (c) complex
- (d) exclamatory
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) complex-compound
Previous Job Exam Question: Part Six
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) incorrect
- (d) compound
- (a) assertive
- (b) simple
- (c) compound
- (d) complex
- (a) complex
- (b) compound
- (c) simple
- (d) none of them
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) complex-compound
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) compound-complex
- (a) Being a cold day, we did not go out.
- (b) A cold day, we did not go out.
- (c) It being a cold day, we did not go out.
- (d) It having a cold day, we did not go out.
- (a) One principal clause and one or more subordinate clauses.
- (b) One subject and more subordinate clauses.
- (c) One principal verb and ne clause.
- (d) None
- (a) Let them do this or they will die.
- (b) Work hard or you can’t prosper in life.
- (c) Move or you will die.
- (d) If he helps us, we shall win.
- (a) Negative
- (b) Complex
- (c) Compound
- (d) None of them
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) compound-complex
- (a) complex
- (b) compound
- (c) simple
- (d) imperative
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) compound-complex
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) complex-compound
- (a) Though Rajib is ill, he regularly attends classes.
- (b) Despite his illness, he regularly attends classes.
- (c) In spite his illness, he regularly attends classes.
- (d) Rajib is ill, but regularly attends classes.
- (a) He confessed his crime.
- (b) The management is thoroughly bad.
- (c) He finished his exercise and put away his books.
- (d) He bought the library which belonged to his uncle.
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) Exclamatory
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) multiple
- (a) He is a boy.
- (b) He is a good boy.
- (c) Though he is wealthy, he is miser.
- (d) In spite of his wealth, he is a miser.
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d)conditional
- (a) The water being very hot, I couldn’t drink.
- (b) Since the water was very hot, I couldn’t drink it.
- (c) Being poor, Jim by a chain.
- (d) Because of his playing well, he won the game.
Previous Job Exam Question: Part Seven
- (a) I wanted to see my ailing father and so I went home.
- (b) I went home in order that I might see my ailing father.
- (c) I went home to see my ailing father.
- (d) I went seeing my ailing father.
- (a) complex
- (b) compound
- (c) simple
- (d) exclamatory
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) none of them
- (a) compound
- (b) complex
- (c) simple
- (d) exclamatory
- (a) If I know this before!
- (b) Do you not repent for this?
- (c) A villain alone can do it.
- (d) I know why he is silent.
- (a) The child is too little to speak.
- (b) Who does not wish to be happy.
- (c) I know when he will arrive.
- (d) Make haste or you will miss the train.
- (a) I know when he will come.
- (b) I know the time of his arrival.
- (c) When he will come is known.
- (d) He will come and I know it.
- (a) You must hurry, or you will miss the train.
- (b) It was owing to his teacher that he succeeded.
- (c) In spite of his being a mere boy, he offered to fight the giant.
- (d) Having finished his exercise, he put away his books.
- (a) Nazma asked some favour of her friends.
- (b) Kaiser is such a good man that you can fully rely on him.
- (c) Rahim says what he means and he means what he says.
- (d) Grief turned his hair gray.
- (a) Despite his poverty, he is honest
- (b) Having reached in London, He will attend a conference.
- (c) he is poor but honest.
- (d) The man who came here this morning is my brother.
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) imperative
- (a) complex
- (b) compound
- (c) simple
- (d) affirmative
- (a) simple
- (b) compound
- (c) positive
- (d) complex
- (a) He is poor but honest.
- (b) There is no mother but loves her child.
- (c) Do or die.
- (d) He tried hard to help me.
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) complex-compound
- (a) Some students like to study in the morning.
- (b) I hate running, but like walking.
- (c) They are studying because they have a test in the afternoon.
- (d) Too many cooks spoil the broth.
- (a) The water we drink must be pure.
- (b) The evil done by men lives after them.
- (c) Give me a pen to write with.
- (d) In spite of his poverty, he is not happy.
- (a) Only the graduates need apply.
- (b) He is better than any other boy in the class.
- (c) We eat that we may live.
- (d) I saw him writing a letter.
- (a) simple
- (b) compound
- (c) complex
- (d) multiple
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) complex-compound
Previous Job Exam Question: Part Eight
- (a) simple
- (b) compound
- (c) complex
- (d) negative
- (a) Tell me the name you bear.
- (b) Tell me what is your name.
- (c) Tell me what your name.
- (d) Tell me what your name is.
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) none
- (a) A subject and a finite verb
- (b) One principal clause and one sub-ordinate clause
- (c) Two or more co-ordinate clauses
- (d) Two or more sub-ordinate clauses
- (a) Four
- (b) Three
- (c) More than one
- (d) None
- (a) a subject and a finite verb
- (b) two or more subordinate clauses
- (c) one principal cause and one subordinate clause
- (d) none
- (a) After he came here, he talked to him.
- (b) He came here but I did not talk to him.
- (c) He stopped to talked to him.
- (d) He could not but talked to him.
- (a) Compound-Complex
- (b) Complex
- (c) Compound
- (d) Simple
- (a) simple
- (b) complex
- (c) compound
- (d) compound-complex
- (a) Owing to weakness, I cannot walk.
- (b) As I am weak, I cannot walk.
- (c) I am weak but I can walk.
- (d) I am too weak to walk.
- (a) Turning to the left you will see the shop.
- (b) If you will learn.
- (c) I shall work hard or I shall fail.
- (d) Had I the wings of a bird?
- (a) If you read you will learn.
- (b) Turning to the left you will see the shop.
- (c) I shall work or I shall fail.
- (d) Had I the wings of a bird.
- (a) complex
- (b) compound
- (c) simple
- (d) simple and complex
- (a) Seeing the police the thief ran away.
- (b) The thief saw the police while he run away.
- (c) When the thief saw the police he run away.
- (d) The thief saw the police and ran away.
- (a) simple
- (b) exclamatory
- (c) complex
- (d) compound
- (a) I was admitted to school at the age of five.
- (b) A soon as he got the telegram he left in a taxi.
- (c) You have got a first division and I am glad to know it.
- (d) The man was happy when he saw his daughter.
- (a) complex
- (b) simple
- (c) compound
- (d) exclamatory
- (a) compound
- (b) complex
- (c) simple
- (d) interrogative
- (a) complex
- (b) compound
- (c) simple
- (d) incomplete
- (a) simple
- (b) compound
- (c) complex
- (d) none of these
Read more: Clause: Definition and Types with Examples and Exercises
In this post, we have learned about Sentences and their types. We have discussed each type of sentence with examples. At the end part, we have given twenty questions for practice purposes. These are all previous job questions. They are also important for future job exams. So you have to read them very carefully.
