Question

Choose S for statement, Q for question, C for command and E for exclamations:
Some of the best things in life are, thankfully, still free.
A) S
B) Q
C) C
D) E

Answer 1

Hint:
i) A ‘statement’ gives clear facts, while a ‘question’ asks something to someone or the reader.
ii) A ‘command’ gives instructions to someone or the reader, while an ‘exclamation’ shows the excitement in the sentence.

Complete answer:
To answer this question, we need to understand the tone of the given sentence. We can start the analysis with a simple step of checking the punctuation marks. The sentence ends with a ‘full stop (.)’. Therefore, it has to be a statement or a command.

For the sentence to be a question, it should have been ending with a ‘question mark (?)’, which in this case, it isn’t. Similarly, for the sentence to be an exclamation, it should end with an ‘exclamation mark (!)’, which also is not used in this case. Hence, the given sentence is either a ‘Statement’ or a ‘Command’.

A ‘statement’ is a sentence that gives a clear expression, facts or information in writing or speech. A ‘command’ on the other hand, is a sentence that gives a person a task to do, an order or a direction.
The sentence given in the question is not commanding anyone to do anything. It just gives us a clear expression that ‘some of the best things in life are free.’ Hence, it is a ‘statement’.

Thus, the correct answer is option (A) Statement

Note:
The above given options are formally known as the following:
-Declarative sentence – statement
-Imperative sentence – command
-Interrogative sentence – question
-Exclamatory sentence – exclamation

The exclamation mark ‘!’ can be used at the end of a statement or a command to provide emphasis to the particular information or the task.