Daily Grammar Practice (DGP)

1. Daily Grammar Practice(DGP) MYP Honors English 2B Sentence 4

2. DGP - Tuesday Punctuation & Capitalization and Parts of Speech

3. Punctuation & CapitalizationCorrect Answer • “Well, this is the most extraordinary thing that I ever knew!” exclaimed the Laird. • capital “W” • comma after “Well” • capital “I” • exclamation point after “knew” • quotation marks around “Well…knew!” • capital “L” for Laird • period after “Laird”

4. Sentence • “Well, this is the most extraordinary thing that I ever knew!” exclaimed the Laird. • Word Bank: • 2 nouns (n) • 1 interjection (int) • 3 pronouns (pro) (demonstrative, relative, personal) • 3 verbs (lv or av/past) • 2 articles (art) • 2 adverbs (adv) • 1 adjective (adj)

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

6. Parts of SpeechCorrect Answer • “Well, this is the most extraordinary thing that I ever knew!” exclaimed the Laird. • thing; Laird = nouns (n) • Well = interjection (int) • this; that; I = pronouns (pro) • is; knew; exclaimed = verbs (lv; av/past) • the; the = articles (art) • most; ever = adverbs (adv) • extraordinary = adjective (adj)

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

8. DGP - Wednesday Sentence Parts and Phrases

9. Sentence • “Well, this is the most extraordinary thing that I ever knew!” exclaimed the Laird. • Word Bank: • 2 subjects (underline and label with S) • 2 predicates (double-underline and label with P)

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

11. Correct Answer • “Well, this is the most extraordinary thing that I ever knew!” exclaimed the Laird. • this; I = subjects (the “who” or “what” of the verb) • is the most extraordinary thing; knew = predicates (what the subject is doing or being; the verb and its modifiers)

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 - Thursday Clauses and Sentence Types

14. Sentence • “Well, this is the most extraordinary thing that I ever knew!” exclaimed the Laird. • Word Bank: • 1 independent clause (put in brackets & label “IC”) • 1 dependent clause (put in parentheses & label “DC”) • sentence type (choose 1) • simple, compound, complex, compound-complex • sentence purpose (choose 1) • interrogative, imperative, declarative, exclamatory

15. Compare • Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same dependent clause. • “I labeled ________as the dependent clause because _____________________________.”

16. Correct Answer • “Well, this is the most extraordinary thing that I ever knew!” exclaimed the Laird. • this is the most extraordinary thing = independent clause(contains a subject and a verb; can stand on its own) • that I ever knew = dependent clause (cannot stand on its own) • Sentence type = complex(two independent clauses) • Sentence purpose = exclamatory(gives a command and ends in a period)

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 – Friday Weekly Quiz!