Identify the type of sentence below: john and mary went to the store to buy some milk.
a. declarative
c. interrogative
b. imperative
d. exclamatory

a. declarative

Explanation:

Remember that a declarative sentence, as the name tells us, declares or states something. That means it limits itself to give facts or information. It is usually recognizable because it ends with a period.

It is useful to define it with the things is doesn't do. It doesn't ask a question, make a command, or make statements with emotion.  

In this case it only tells us the things John and Mary did.

closer examination, however, finds the mcdonald's kind of job highly uneducational in several ways. far from providing opportunities for entrepreneurship (the lemonade stand) or self- discipline, self-supervision, and self-scheduling (the paper route), most teen jobs these days are highly structured — what social scientists call “highly routinized.”  

true, you still have to have the gumption to get yourself over to the hamburger stand, but once you don the prescribed uniform, your task is spelled out in minute detail.