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Sentence Type Lesson 001

Skills - Kinds of Sentences
Put an S if the sentence is a Statement. Put a Q if the sentence is a Question. Put an E if the sentence is an Exclamation (showing strong feeling). End marks are left off to make it more challenging.
_____1. Are sponges plants or animals
_____2. What strange animals they are
_____3. They grow on the bottom of the ocean
_____4. Some sponges grow five feet tall
_____5. Are all sponges brown and yellow

_____6. Oh, how gaily colored living sponges are

_____7. People who fish for sponges often ride in strange boats
_____8. Is the bottom of the boat made of glass
_____9. How clear and still the water becomes
_____10. Sponges can be seen fifty feet below
_____11. Are long poles used to hook sponges
_____12. Did this sponge come from Florida
_____13. It came from Tarpon Springs, Florida
_____14. Is it a sheep's-wool sponge
_____15. Father has a large sheep's-wool sponge
Re-write the following sentences to the kind shown in parentheses.

(S) 16. Did Tom fish for sponges when he visited his aunt in Florida?

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(Q) 17. You have been to Florida.

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(S) 18. What a beautiful state Florida is!

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