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Hello,1. Give me my pen, please!Is it a imperative or a  exclamatory sentence?2. she was both praised and rewarded.Is the above sentence a compound or a simple sentence?Thanks.

RandomGuy · Accepted Answer

hanuman_20001. Give me my pen, please!
Is it an imperative or an exclamatory sentence?

It’s an imperative clause: the subject is understood as you and the verb is in the plain form.

An exclamative clause is marked by one of the exclamative words how and what:

How she hated it!
What a game it was!

hanuman_20002. She was both praised and rewarded.
Is the above sentence a compound or a simple sentence?

It’s not a compound sentence. It contains a coordination of two verbs, not main clauses. A compound sentence would be She was praised and she was rewarded.

Clive · Answer

My dictionary defines an exclamation as a sudden, emphatic or impassioned utterance, and I agree..

Here are some examples.
Note the exclamation marks.

"It's alive! It's alive!"
(Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein in Frankenstein, 1931)
"Have fun storming the castle!"
(Billy Crystal as Miracle Max in The Princess Bride, 1987)
"I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!"
(Homer Simpson, The Simpsons)
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
(Oliver Hardy in Sons of the Desert, 1933)

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
(Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley in Dr. Strangelove, 1964)

For a deeper discussion, have a look at the site these examples are from.

http://grammar.about.com/od/e/g/exclamsent7term.htm

Clive

RandomGuy · Answer

The OP was asking about sentence types. Not all exclamations take the form of exclamative clauses: I can’t believe it! may be an exclamation, but syntactically it is of declarative type.

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