Daily Grammar Practice (DGP)

1. Daily Grammar Practice(DGP) MYP Honors English 2B Sentence 1

2. DGP - Monday Punctuation and Capitalization

3. Sentence • go often to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path • Copy this sentence down as it is written here. • Rewrite the sentence with correct punctuation and capitalization.

4. Compare • Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you punctuated and capitalized the sentence the same way.

5. Correct Answer • Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

6. Reflection • Please take a minute to write a reflection of what you learned today in your DGP folder.

7. DGP - Tuesday Parts of Speech

8. Sentence • Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. • Word Bank: • 1 Pronoun (pro) • 4 Nouns (n) • 2 Verbs (av/pres) • 2 Articles (art) • 2 Prepositions (prep) • 1 Adverb (adv) • 1 Participle (part) • 1 Coordinating Conjunction (cc)

9. Compare • Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same nouns. • “I labeled ______, ______, ______, and ______ as nouns because ____________________.”

10. go; choke = action verb: present tense(shows action) • often = adverb(tells How? When? Where? To what extent?) • the; the = article(a, an, the) • house; friend; weeds; path = nouns(person, place, thing, idea) • to; of = preposition(shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence) • thy = possessive pronoun(takes the place of a noun and shows possession) • for = coordinating conjuction(FANBOYS) • unused = participle (verb that acts like an adjective; ends in –ing or –ed, etc.)

11. Correct Answer • Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. • go; choke = action verb: present tense(shows action) • often = adverb(tells How? When? Where? To what extent?) • the; the = article(a, an, the) • house; friend; weeds; path = nouns(person, place, thing, idea) • to; of = preposition(shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence) • thy = possessive pronoun(takes the place of a noun and shows possession) • for = coordinating conjuction(FANBOYS) • unused = participle (verb that acts like an adjective; ends in –ing or –ed, etc.)

12. Reflection • Please take a minute to write a reflection of what you learned today in the appropriate section of your DGP weekly worksheet.

13. DGP - Wednesday Sentence Parts and Phrases

14. Sentence • Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. • Word Bank: • 2 subjects (underline and label with S) • 2 predicates (double-underline and label with P) • 2 prepositional phrases (in parentheses) • 2 objects of the preposition (Obj Prep) • 1 direct object (do)

15. Compare • Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same subjects. • “I labeled _____ and _____ as the subjects because ____________________________.”

16. Correct Answer • (you); weeds = subject (the “who” or “what” of the verb) • go often to the house of thy friend; choke the unused path = predicate (what the subject is doing or being; the verb and its modifiers) • to the house; of thy friend = prepositional phrase (group of words beginning with a pronoun and ending with a noun or pronoun) • house; friend = object of the preposition (follows preposition and tells “what?” or “whom?”) • path = direct object (follows an action verb; to find it, say, “subject, verb, what?” or “subject, verb, whom?”)

17. Reflection • Please take a minute to write a reflection of what you learned today in the appropriate section of your DGP weekly worksheet.

18. DGP - Thursday Clauses and Sentence Types

19. Sentence • Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. • Word Bank: • 2 independent clauses (labeled “IC”) • sentence type (choose 1) • simple, compound, complex, compound-complex • sentence purpose (choose 1) • interrogative, imperative, declarative, exclamatory

20. Compare • Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same independent clause. • “I labeled ________ and ________as the independent clauses because _____________________________.”

21. Correct Answer • Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. • go often; weeds choke the unused path = independent clause (contains a subject and a verb; can stand on its own) • Sentence type = compound(two independent clauses) • Sentence purpose = imperative (gives a command and ends in a period)

22. Reflection • Please take a minute to write a reflection of what you learned today in the appropriate section of your DGP weekly worksheet.

23. DGP – Friday Weekly Quiz!