Types of Sentences 2

Good day Grammar-lovers! We have a new exercise for you today, one that plays with different types of sentences.

There are four types of sentences that we use in language for four different purposes.

1. DECLARATIVE – make a statement
2. INTERROGATIVE – ask a question
3. IMPERATIVE – gives a command
4. EXCLAMATORY – shows strong emotion

Many phrases can be contained as parts or the whole of any of these four types of sentences. The object of the exercise is to play out this overlap.
Instructions for the exercise:
Pick a declarative sentence as your launching point – something active, but not too complicated.

I went to the store to get milk.
Then, write a dialogue (more than two characters can play) using only the words of that sentence, variations thereof, or common words and verbs of dialogue. Follow this order of sentences:

1. Declarative (original sentence)
2. Interrogative
3. Declarative
4. Exclamatory
5. Exclamatory
6. Imperative
7. Interrogative
8. Interrogative
9. Declarative
10. Interrogative
11. Imperative
12. Declarative

Example:
A: I went to the store to get milk.
B: You went to get milk?
A: Yeah, to the store.
B: (who happens to be lactose intolerant) WHY DID YOU GET MILK?!
A: It’s milk! I got milk!
B: Don’t get milk!
A: Why can’t I get milk?
A: Can I not go to that store?
B: You can go to that store, yeah; just don’t get milk.
A: So I can go to that store?
B: Don’t get the milk…
A: Yeah, okay.