Grammaropolis
The Sentence Factory

Sentence Types

Every sentence has a job. It can tell you something, ask you something, or tell you to do something.

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Preview how it deepens, Grades 1 through 3.

statement / question / command See it · tap a half
Try it on the line

Build one yourself.

Pick one chip at each station and snap them together. The Mayor inspects the finished sentence, a quick taste of how the parts combine.

1 · the sentence

2 · the end mark that matches the job

3 · The Mayor inspects
Pick a sentence, then the end mark that fits its job.
✓ End mark matches the job · approved
Keep going in the Arcade · free, plays daily
Sentence Surgeon · revising sentences
Sentence Surgeon

A change order drops: make it plural, give it an adverb, swap in a pronoun. Re-tool the sentence and roll it back onto the line.

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Garbage Sentences · syntax vs. meaning
Garbage Sentences

Slang builds a sentence that follows every rule of grammar and still means nonsense. Catch which rule he really broke, and let the Mayor judge.

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Watch for

The end mark has to match the job.

Wrong end mark

This sentence asks a question, but it ends with a period. The end mark does not match the job.

Question

An asking sentence ends with a question mark, boxed so you can see the part that changed.

The crew on this station

The characters host. The sentence is the star.

Officer Period portrait
Officer Period
works the line
Detective Question Mark portrait
Detective Question Mark
works the line
Sergeant Exclamation Mark portrait
Sergeant Exclamation Mark
works the line
The Mayor portrait
The Mayor
inspects the sentence
What you'll learn

The same concept, deeper every grade.

Sentence Types runs the length of the Factory, Grades 1 through 3. The lesson meets the standard at each grade, across all four frameworks.

Grade 1 Every sentence has a job. It can tell you something, ask you something, or tell you to do something. CCSS L.1.1.J · CCSS L.1.2.B
Grade 2 Every sentence has a job. It can tell you something, ask you something, or tell you to do something. CCSS L.2.1.F · CCSS L.2.2
Grade 3 Every sentence has a purpose: to state, to question, to command, or to exclaim. The end mark tells you which. CCSS L.3.1.I · CCSS L.3.2