Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
Telling and asking sentences
Tell a statement from a question and give it the right end mark.
A sentence can tell you something or ask you something. The mark at the end shows you which one it is.
A statement tells
It gives you a fact and ends with a full stop. The sky is blue.
A question asks
It wants an answer back and ends with a question mark. Is the sky blue?
Both start the same way
Every sentence begins with a capital letter, whichever mark it ends with.
Worked example
Let us end this sentence: how many legs does a spider have
The sentence wants an answer back, so it is asking.
Someone has to reply with a number, which a statement never needs.
Try it together
Let us sort three sentences.
Each answer is one word: statement or question.
1."My shoes are wet." Which kind of sentence is this?
Have a go
Which one is written correctly?
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