20 Examples of Disjunctive Sentences

Disjunctive Sentences

The disjunctive sentences are those that pose two or more options regarding something, sometimes with the manifest intention of receiving a concrete answer in that sense and others with the simple need to express a doubt that has not yet been sort out. For example: Either we change the rules of the game or this situation ends here.

It is a kind of compound sentences and specifically coordinated, in which two suborations (each with its conjugated verb) are combined in a relationship of equal hierarchy.

Disjunctive sentences use disjunctive links, which is usually "or" (or eventually "u"), but can also be "or".

It should be noted that these links may also appear in simple bimembre sentences, posing a dilemma associated with any of the common verbal complements, as a direct object or circumstantial complement. For example: We don't know whether to eat chicken or meat.

Often in the disjunctive sentence there is an opposition associated with different interlocutors. For example:

Do your homework right now or I won't let you go to your friend's house tonight. Disjunctive sentences appear very frequently in the framework of questions. For example: Are you coming with us or will we meet directly there?

The Rhetorical questions (discursive resources that do not expect an answer, but rather create a starting frame for a debate or reflection) also often resort to raising a dilemma.

Examples of disjunctive sentences

1. I'll start the diet today or the scale will betray me.
2. Do you want me to call in the morning or better we communicate after lunch?
3. Are you coming with us or will we meet directly there?
4. Do you understand or do I have to explain it to you again?
5. I don't know if it will be an informal meeting or we will discuss important matters.
6. Either you finish school soon, or we won't be traveling to the beach this year.
7. I have to sell this house or they are going to auction it off.
8. Fix the plate you broke now or let's go out and buy one before my parents arrive.
9. You have to give them an answer or they will hire someone else
10. Either you start treating me better, or this will be over soon.
11. I don't know if it will rain on Sunday or if we can go to the field.
12. Let's buy the brown wallet or they'll run out of stock.
13. You can pay it in cash or opt for a payment plan with a small interest.
14. I offer you a shift for this Saturday or you will have to wait until next month.
15. Either you tell him today, or I'll end up telling him tomorrow.
16. Next Thursday will be a holiday, or did they finally change it?
17. I could ask my mother to cook, or would you like to order at a store near here?
18. Stop eating those chocolates or tomorrow there will be hives all over your body.
19. I can drop you off at the train station, or would you prefer me to call a remís?
20. All must attend with their university notebook or carry a document that proves their status as a student.

Other types of sentences according to the intention of the speaker