Kentucky Governor's Cup Practice Test

An exclamatory sentence is built to express strong emotion or excitement. It often starts with an interjection like Wow or Oh and ends with an exclamation point to show emphasis. This combination—the interjection at the start and the exclamation mark at the end—signals an exclamatory purpose. Other sentence types have different endings or functions: imperative sentences give commands, declaratives state facts and end with a period, and interrogatives ask questions and end with a question mark.