Grammar for Everyone - Barbara Dykes 2007

10 Sentence forms - Statements
Introduction
Part II The parts of speech

Before students begin this section they should be able to read and write simple sentences and take dictated ones with a high level of accuracy.

In this section students are introduced to sentence construction. Firstly, they learn to recognise and correctly use the four basic kinds of sentences together with the appropriate punctuation. Students are reminded that all sentences start with a capital letter.

Statements

These are sentences in which something is stated or told. Speech and writing consists mainly of statements. They end with a full stop.

For example:

Roger fell into the river.