Any Secondary English teachers around?

[BlueSilverCats]

DD has an English test coming up. I was helping her revise and the information in her book seemed wrong , so I googled to check. According to google it was wrong. DD did try to clarify with the teacher , but the teacher told her that whatever is in her book is right. Now she's unsure what to do if it comes up in the test.

What are declarative and exclamative (sentences) and could you give an example please?

Anyone?

A declarative sentence is any sentence that makes a declaration or a statement. Which would be most sentences.
An exclamative sentence is a statement which shows emotion and generally has an exclamation mark at the end.
So..
The man was eating noisily. ( declarative)
The man was eating really noisily! ( exclamative)

Well I think a declarative sentence is just declaring something. "George is reading."

Now imagine George is a reluctant reader and an exclamation sentence is, "George is reading!" Anything with !

That's what I thought and what Google says, but in her book (copied off the board) they are the other way around. I asked her to check with classmates just to make sure she didn't copy the wrong thing , but they're the same.

Yeah, the teacher must have confused them. An exclamative has and exclamation mark. A declarative is a statement, and an interrogative is a question if she needs that one.

It does seem that the teacher had made an error then. Ask your DD to show her book to a different English teacher and ask them, they’ll see the error and hopefully have a quiet word with the other teacher. Or you could call and ask (kindly) to have it clarified as you want to make sure your DD doesn’t get it wrong. I wouldn’t go down the complaining route as the teacher could have been just having an off day but I’d have a quiet word just to make sure that it’s clear.

Is the information on a printed sheet or did DD copy it into her book?
She could have copied it incorrectly from the board.

Sorry I see her friends copied the same.

I don't plan to complain regardless. My plan is to tell DD to write(and learn) the correct thing on her test and IF she gets marked wrong then I'll just pop an email to ask for clarification. I just wanted to know 100% I'm right if I end up doing that, otherwise it would be a very embarrassing moment.

She doesn't have the other English teacher until after the test and there's not really time to be wandering about looking for one during the school day.

I'll be honest , I definitely thought she did, which is why I asked her to check with other classmates and the teacher.

Annoyingly, they’re also the only terms not on the printed out knowledge organisers.

The strangest things confuse you in the classroom. In some of my classes children ask the most irrelevant questions (endearing really), then three of them don't have a pen, then someone's sole is flapping and Miss do you have any sellotape, can you fix it? And then you make a really rudimentary error. I planned for Y9 RE lesson 3 on Friday, but actually was teaching Much Ado About Nothing.😂