A reader can not tell whether or not my statement can be determined to be either true or false. I have only expressed a subject but have expressed no thought. In this chapter you will see how the predicate phrase combined with a subject communicates thought in declarative sentences. You will add predicate phrases to your subjects to form statements. Questions, Imperatives, and Interjections You might look at what three other types of sentences do in order to understand what a declarative sentence does.
Some sentences ask questions.
Imperative sentences issue orders or commands. Open your books to page three. Stand and deliver. Other sentences express surprise or fright or some other strong emotion. When transcripts of his Oval Office tapes were transcribed, exclamations, interjections, and cuss words were omitted and the expression expletive deleted was substituted.