SENTENCE-BUILDING.
Change each of the following declarative sentences into three interrogative sentences, and tell how the change was made.
+Model+.—Girls can skate. Can girls skate? How can girls skate? What girls can skate? You are happy. Parrots can talk. Low houses were built.
Change each of the following into an imperative sentence. Notice that independent words are set off by the comma.
+Model+.—Carlo eats his dinner. Eat your dinner, Carlo. George plays the flute. Birdie stands on one leg.
Change each of the following into exclamatory sentences.
+Model+.—You are happy. How happy you are! What a happy child you are!
You are so happy!
Time flies swiftly. I am glad to see you. A refreshing shower fell. Lapland is a cold country. It is hot between the tropics.
Write a declarative, an interrogative, an imperative, and an exclamatory sentence on each of the following topics.
Weather, lightning, a stage coach.