Question

What type of sentence is the following example?

Why are the dogs barking at the front door?


A. Interrogative


B. Declarative


C. Imperative


D. Exclamatory

Answer 1

The answer is a. Interrogative. It starts with an interrogative noun, why. This makes it an interrogative sentence.

Answer 2

This would be an interrogative sentence.

An interrogative sentence asks a question. You can usually identify a question because the main verb comes before the subject.

Examples of interrogative sentences:

Is this a picture of you when you were a baby?

Why do things like this always happen to me?