An Interrogative Sentence is one that expresses a question.
An Imperative Sentence is one that expresses a command or an entreaty.
An Exclamatory Sentence is one that expresses sudden thought or strong feeling.
| 1. | There are no accidents in the providence of God. |
| 2. | Why does the very murderer, his victim sleeping before him, and his glaring eye taking the measure of the blow, strike wide of the mortal part? |
| 3. | Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. |
| 4. | How wonderful is the advent of spring! |
| 5. | Oh! a dainty plant is the ivy green! |
| 6. | Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work. |
| 7. | Alexander the Great died at Babylon in the thirty-third year of his age. |
| 8. | How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man’s self to himself! |
| 9. | Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. |
| 10. | Lend me your ears. |
| 11. | What brilliant rings the planet Saturn has! |
| 12. | What power shall blanch the sullied snow of character? |
| 13. | The laws of nature are the thoughts of God. |
| 14. | How beautiful was the snow, falling all day long, all night long, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! |
| 15. | Who, in the darkest days of our Revolution, carried your flag into the very chops of the British Channel, bearded the lion in his den, and woke the echoes of old Albion’s hills by the thunders of his cannon and the shouts of his triumph? |
| 1. | Poetry is only the eloquence and enthusiam of religion.—Wordsworth. |
| 2. | Refusing to bare his head to any earthly potentate, Richelieu would permit no eminent author to stand bareheaded in his presence.—Stephen. |
| 3. | The Queen of England is simply a piece of historic heraldry; a flag, floating grandly over a Liberal ministry yesterday, over a Tory ministry today.—Conway. |
| 4. | The vulgar intellectual palate hankers after the titillation of foaming phrase.—Lowell. |
| 5. | Two mighty vortices, Pericles and Alexander the Great, drew into strong eddies about themselves all the glory and the pomp of Greek literature, Greek eloquence, Greek wisdom, Greek art.—De Quincey. |
| 6. | Reason’s whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, lie in three words — health, peace, and competence.—Pope. |
| 7.* | Extreme admiration puts out the critic’s eye.—Tyler. |
| 8.* | The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun.—Longfellow. |
| 9. | Things mean, the Thistle, the Leek, the Broom,of the Plantagenets, become noble by association.—F. W. Robertson. |
| 10.* | Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the night.—Beecher. |
| 11.+ | In that calm Syrian afternoon, memory, a pensive Ruth, went gleaning the silent fields of childhood, and found the scattered grain still golden, and the morning sunlight fresh and fair.—Curtis. |
+In Ruth of this sentence, we have a type of the metaphor called Personification—a figure in which things are raised above their proper plane, taken up toward or to that of persons. Things take on dignity and importance as they rise in the scale of being.
Note, moreover, that in this instance of the figure we have an Allusion. All the interest that the Ruth of the Bible awakens in us this allusion gathers about so common a thing as memory.
| 1. | By means of steam man realizes the fable of Æolus’s bag, and carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat.—Emerson. |
| 2. | The Angel of Life winds our brains up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of Resurrection.—Holmes. |
| 3. | I called the new World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.—Canning. |
| 4. | The prominent nose of the New Englander is evidence of the constant linguistic exercise of that organ.—Warner. |
| 5. | Every Latin word has its function as noun or verb or adverb ticketed upon it.—Earle. |
| 6. | The Alps, piled in cold and still sublimity, are an image of despotism.—Phillips. |
| 7. | I want my husband to be submissive without looking so.—Gail Hamilton. |
| 8. | I love to lose myself in other men’s minds.—Lamb. |
| 9. | Cheerfulness banishes all anxious care and discontent, soothes and composes the passions, and keeps the soul in a perpetual calm.—Addison. |
Explanation.— Beyond the power of science = impossible, and is therefore an attribute complement. The preposition beyond shows the relation, in sense, of power to the subject phrase. Without altering Reed & Kellogg’s sentence I will note only that in the meantime science and technology have been able to establish the material composition and likely origin of comets.
| 11. | Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.—Longfellow. |
