What is a statement sentence?
Statements are the most common type of sentence.
They tell the reader a fact or idea about a single topic.
They must always end in punctuation, usually a full stop.
Watch: Statement sentences
[TYPEWRITER NOISES, SNORING]
NARRATOR
How鈥檚 your writing coming along?
Statements are the most common kind of sentences. They tell the reader something like a fact or an idea about a single topic.
[ANGRY SCREAM]
NARRATOR
Like鈥 鈥測ou should stop. Your poems are stupid!鈥
Oho鈥 that鈥檚 quite a statement! Someone鈥檚 in a bad mood!
Statement sentences must always end in punctuation, usually a full stop.
[ANGRY SCREAM, MULTIPLE THUDS ON TYPEWRITER]
NARRATOR
Oh, and don鈥檛 forget the full stop.
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