•Simple Sentence
•Compound Sentence
•Complex Sentence
•Compound-Complex
•Cumulative Sentence
•Periodic Sentence
•Declarative Sentence
•Exclamatory Sentence
•Hortative Sentence
•Imperative Sentence
•Interrogative Sentence
Why study
rhetoric?
•Simple Sentence
•Compound Sentence
Simple Sentence
•Complex Sentence
•Compound-Complex
•Cumulative Sentence
•Periodic Sentence
•Declarative Sentence
“One independent clause with no subordinate
clauses. It does not contain more than one full
sentence pattern.”
•Exclamatory Sentence
•Hortative Sentence
•Imperative Sentence
•Interrogative Sentence
EXAMPLE: JFK was a democratic president from
Massachusetts.
•Simple Sentence
•Compound Sentence
Compound Sentence
•Complex Sentence
•Compound-Complex
•Cumulative Sentence
•Periodic Sentence
•Declarative Sentence
“Composed of two or more independent clauses
with no subordinate clauses. The two clauses are
usually joined by a comma and a conjunction or
a semicolon.”
•Exclamatory Sentence
•Hortative Sentence
•Imperative Sentence
•Interrogative Sentence
EXAMPLE: I studied English literature in college,
but I took six years to get my degree.
•Simple Sentence
•Compound Sentence
Complex Sentence
•Complex Sentence
•Compound-Complex
•Cumulative Sentence
•Periodic Sentence
“Composed of one independent clause and one
or more subordinate clauses.”
•Declarative Sentence
•Exclamatory Sentence
•Hortative Sentence
•Imperative Sentence
•Interrogative Sentence
EXAMPLE: “They that sow in tears shall reap in
joy.
"that sow in tears" is the subordinate clause.”
•Simple Sentence
•Compound Sentence
Compound-Complex
•Complex Sentence
•Compound-Complex
•Cumulative Sentence
•Periodic Sentence
“Contains at least two independent clauses and
at least one subordinate clause.”
•Declarative Sentence
•Exclamatory Sentence
•Hortative Sentence
•Imperative Sentence
•Interrogative Sentence
EXAMPLE: “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell
you what you are.
This sentence contains two independent clauses
(one before and one after the comma) and each
independent clause contains a subordinate clause
("what you eat" and "what you are").”
•Simple Sentence
•Compound Sentence
Cumulative Sentence
•Complex Sentence
•Compound-Complex
•Cumulative Sentence
•Periodic Sentence
•Declarative Sentence
“A sentence that completes the main idea at the
beginning of the sentence, and then builds and
adds on.”
•Exclamatory Sentence
•Hortative Sentence
•Imperative Sentence
•Interrogative Sentence
EXAMPLE: “But neither can two great and
powerful groups of nations take comfort from our
present course—both sides overburdened by the
cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by
the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both
racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror
that stays the hand of mankind’s final war.”
•Simple Sentence
•Compound Sentence
Periodic Sentence
•Complex Sentence
•Compound-Complex
•Cumulative Sentence
•Periodic Sentence
“A sentence whose main clause is withheld until
the end.”
•Declarative Sentence
•Exclamatory Sentence
•Hortative Sentence
•Imperative Sentence
•Interrogative Sentence
EXAMPLE: “To that world assembly of sovereign
states, the United Nations, our last best hope in
an age where the instruments of war have far
outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew
our pledge of support.”
•Simple Sentence
•Compound Sentence
Declarative Sentence
•Complex Sentence
•Compound-Complex
•Cumulative Sentence
“A sentence used to make a simple statement.”
•Periodic Sentence
•Declarative Sentence
•Exclamatory Sentence
•Hortative Sentence
•Imperative Sentence
•Interrogative Sentence
EXAMPLE: My dog barks incessantly at the
neighbors.
•Simple Sentence
•Compound Sentence
Exclamatory Sentence
•Complex Sentence
•Compound-Complex
•Cumulative Sentence
“A sentence used to make an exclamation”
•Periodic Sentence
•Declarative Sentence
•Exclamatory Sentence
•Hortative Sentence
•Imperative Sentence
•Interrogative Sentence
EXAMPLE: I have not, and never will be, a
communist!
•Simple Sentence
•Compound Sentence
Hortative Sentence
•Complex Sentence
•Compound-Complex
•Cumulative Sentence
•Periodic Sentence
“A sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to
action.”
•Declarative Sentence
•Exclamatory Sentence
•Hortative Sentence
•Imperative Sentence
•Interrogative Sentence
EXAMPLE: “Let both sides explore what problems
unite us instead of belaboring those problems
which divide us.”
•Simple Sentence
•Compound Sentence
Imperative Sentence
•Complex Sentence
•Compound-Complex
•Cumulative Sentence
•Periodic Sentence
“A sentence used to command, enjoin, implore,
or entreat.”
•Declarative Sentence
•Exclamatory Sentence
•Hortative Sentence
•Imperative Sentence
•Interrogative Sentence
EXAMPLE: “My fellow citizens of the world: ask
not what American will do for you, but what
together we can do for the freedom of man.”
•Simple Sentence
•Compound Sentence
Interrogative Sentence
•Complex Sentence
•Compound-Complex
•Cumulative Sentence
“A sentence used to ask a question.”
•Periodic Sentence
•Declarative Sentence
•Exclamatory Sentence
•Hortative Sentence
•Imperative Sentence
•Interrogative Sentence
EXAMPLE: Do you want raspberries with your ice
cream?
•Simple Sentence
•Compound Sentence
•Complex Sentence
•Compound-Complex
•Cumulative Sentence
•Periodic Sentence
•Declarative Sentence
•Exclamatory Sentence
•Hortative Sentence
•Imperative Sentence
•Interrogative Sentence
The
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