Daily Grammar Practice (DGP)

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

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

3. Correct Answer • Each of the players was working on his batting average as the team practiced. • capital “E” • period after “practiced”

4. Sentence • Each of the players was working on his batting average as the team practiced. • Word Bank: • 2 pronouns (pro) • 3 verbs (av/past or av/pres or lv or hv) • 2 articles (art) • 1 participle (part) • 3 nouns (n) • 1 subordinating conjunction (sc) • 2 prepositions (prep)

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

6. Correct Answer • Each of the players was working on his batting average as the team practiced. • Each; his = pronouns (pro) • was working; practiced = verbs (hv + av/past; av/past) • the; the = articles (art) • batting = participle (part) • players; average; team = nouns (n) • as = subordinating conjunction (sc) • of; on = prepositions (prep)

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 • Each of the players was working on his batting average as the team practiced. • Word Bank: • 1 subject (underline and label with “S”) • 1 predicate (double-underline and label with “P”) • 2 prepositional phrases (in parentheses and labeled with “prep ph”) • 2 objects of the preposition (label with “obj prep”)

10. Compare • Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same subject. • “I labeled ________ as the subject because __________.”

11. Correct Answer • Each of the players was working on his batting average as the team practiced. • Each = subject (the “who” or “what” of the verb) • was working on his batting average as the team practiced = predicate (what the subject is doing or being; the verb and its modifiers) • of the players; on his batting average = prepositional phrases (group of words beginning with a pronoun and ending with a noun or pronoun) • players; average = object of the preposition (follows preposition and tells “what?” or “whom?”)

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 • Each of the players was working on his batting average as the team practiced. • Word Bank: • 1 independent clause (put in brackets & label “IC”) • 1 dependent clause (underline & 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 independent clause. • “I labeled ________ as the independent clause because __________.”

16. Correct Answer • Each of the players was working on his batting average as the team practiced. • Each of the players was working on his batting average = independent clause(contains a subject and a verb; can stand on its own) • as the team practiced = dependent clause(cannot stand on its own; missing a subject or a predicate) • Sentence type = complex(contains one dependent clause & one independent clause) • Sentence purpose = declarative(makes a statement)

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!