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In [[linguistics]], '''sentence function''' refers to a speaker's purpose in uttering a specific sentence; whether a listener is present or not. It answers the question: "Why has this been said?" The most basic sentence functions in the world's languages include the ''declarative'', ''interrogative'', ''exclamatory'', and the ''imperative''. These correspond to a ''statement'', ''question'', ''exclamation'', and ''command'' respectively. Typically, a sentence goes from one function to the next through a combination of changes in word order, intonation, and intonationsometimes the addition of certain auxiliaries. The four main categories can be further specified as being either ''communicative'' or ''informative''.

==Communicative vs. Informative==