1. An exclamatory sentence is a sentence uttering an outcry or giving expression to a command, wish, or desire, often closing with an
exclamation point, for example, What a fine ring she received for her engagement
2. A declarative sentence states a fact, closing with a period. In this type of
sentence, the subject is present and generally preceded the verb, for example, Ann brought a cake for her mother’s birthday.
3. An interrogative sentence is a sentence asking for a question, closing with
an interrogation point. This type of sentence is marked in three ways: YesNo question for example, Do you agree with her statement?, WH-
Question for example, What is her name?, and Question Tag for example, The mail is received, isn’t it?.
Simple sentences have two functions. First, it is emotive, for example, it expresses an expression of will, emotions, moods, etc., and second, it makes a
statement, or, in the case of a question, calls for a statement Curme, 1931: 1. In analyzing simple sentences, there are three aspects that should be
noticed. They are in which the sentence contains subject or not, in which the sentence contains one single verb or not, and concord.
A finite verb is “a verb phrase in which the first or only word is a finite verb, the rest of the verb phrase if any consisting of non-finite verbs” Quirk,
1985:149.
Concord is “a harmony among the elements of a sentence so that the message to deliver has a logical meaning and is correct grammatically”
Pardiyono, 2001: 16. The categories of concord are subject – verb concord, subject – verb concord with paired conjunctions, pronoun concord and parallel
structure.
3. Theories on Compound Sentences
According to Curme, compound sentence “consists of different independent prepositions or members” 1931: 161.
Aarts and Aarts in their book entitled English Syntactic Structures: Functions Categories in Sentence Analysis
1982: 86 differentiate compound sentence in three types:
1. simple sentence + simple sentence + simple sentence For example, I have brought a new suit, but it does not fit me.
2. any combination of simple and complex sentence For example, He thinks that I am in love with her and he is right.
3. complex sentence + complex sentence + complex sentence For example, I hope he would tell me the truth but I know that he is a
coward.
To combine each sentence in compound sentence, it may be used one of two kinds of sentence coordinators:
1. coordinator and, but, and or, called “pure coordinator” and so, yet, called “not pure coordinator”, for example, The menu didn’t meet our
appetite, so we left the restaurant. 2. correlatives: both… and…, either… or…, neither… nor…, not only…
but also…. For example, Both John and Paul hate big houses, and
Neither I nor my colleagues like our new boss.
4. Theories on Complex Sentences
Curme states that complex sentence consists of “one independent preposition and one or more subordinate clauses” Curme: 1931: 1. It gives one
of them superior status. The superior one is known as the main clause or principal clause, while the other is subordinated to it and is called the subordinate
or dependent clause since it cannot stand by itself. The subordinate clause can be divided into three categories, namely relative clause, noun clause, and adverbial
clause. Relative clause “attach further information to nouns or pronouns in or the
main clause” Peters, 2004: 108. In relative clause, relative pronouns are used in specific conditions. In defining relative clause, relative pronouns used for persons
are whothat for subject, whomwhothat for object, and whose for possessive. For things, whichthat for subject, whichthat for object, and
whoseof which for possessive are used. The examples of defining relative clause
are The girl that he hit is my sister, and I brought a new book which will make you surprised.
“Non-defining relative clauses are placed after nouns which are already
