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Grade 3 · English Language Arts · Unit 6 of 13

Sentence Smarts

Kinds of sentences

What your child practises

Telling statements, questions, exclamations and commands apart, spotting incomplete sentences and joining ideas with so, but, or and because.

Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: Demonstrate grammar, spelling, and punctuation that clarify written communication. · writing complete, clear sentences

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What kind of sentence is this?

    Where did you put the glue?

    • Command (tells someone to do something)
    • Exclamation (shows strong feeling)
    • Statement (tells something)
    • Question (asks something)
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    Question (asks something)

    Hint: It asks something and ends with a question mark. That makes it a question.

  2. Question 2

    What kind of sentence is this?

    Take out your reading books.

    • Question (asks something)
    • Statement (tells something)
    • Command (tells someone to do something)
    • Exclamation (shows strong feeling)
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    Command (tells someone to do something)

    Hint: It tells someone to do something. The person doing it is “you,” even though the word isn't written.

  3. Question 3

    What kind of sentence is this?

    Bats sleep during the day.

    • Question (asks something)
    • Exclamation (shows strong feeling)
    • Command (tells someone to do something)
    • Statement (tells something)
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    Statement (tells something)

    Hint: It calmly tells a fact or an idea and ends with a period. That makes it a statement.

  4. Question 4

    Which is NOT a complete sentence?

    • A gentle rain fell all night.
    • Visited a farm.
    • The ducks swam across the pond.
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    Visited a farm.

    Hint: A complete sentence needs two parts: who or what it is about (the subject) and what happens (the action). Find the one with a part missing.

  5. Question 5

    What kind of sentence is this?

    Yay, it's my birthday!

    • Statement (tells something)
    • Question (asks something)
    • Exclamation (shows strong feeling)
    • Command (tells someone to do something)
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    Exclamation (shows strong feeling)

    Hint: It shows a strong feeling, like excitement or surprise, and ends with an exclamation mark.

  6. Question 6

    Which is a complete sentence?

    • Built a sandcastle.
    • Leo built a sandcastle.
    • Leo and a sandcastle.
    Show answer

    Leo built a sandcastle.

    Hint: A complete sentence needs two parts: who or what it is about (the subject) and what happens (the action).

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