Daily Grammar Practice (DGP)

1. Daily Grammar Practice(DGP) MYP Honors English 2B Sentence 3

2. DGP - Monday Punctuation and Capitalization

3. Sentence • she stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard • Copy this sentence down as it’s written here. • Rewrite the sentence with correct punctuation and capitalization. • Word Bank: • 1 capital letter • 1 period

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 • She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.

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 • She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. • Word Bank: • 4 Nouns (n) • 1 Pronoun (pro) • 2 Verbs (av/past) • 4 Articles (art) • 3 Prepositions (prep) • 3 Adjectives (adj) • 2 Adverbs (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 verbs. • “I labeled ______ and ______ as verbs because _____________________________.”

10. window; cat; fence; backyard = nouns(person, place, thing, idea) • She = pronoun(takes the place of a noun and shows possession) • stood; looked = action verbs: past tense(shows past action) • the; a; a; a = articles(a, an, the) • by; at; in = prepositions(shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence) • gray; gray; gray = adjectives(modifies nouns and pronouns) • out; dully = adverbs(tells How? When? Where? To what extent?) • walking = participle (verb that acts like an adjective; ends in –ing or –ed, etc.) • and = coordinating conjuction(FANBOYS)

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

12. DGP - Wednesday Sentence Parts and Phrases

13. Sentence • She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. • Word Bank: • 1 Subject (underline and label with “S”) • 1 Predicate (double-underline and label with “P”) • 3 Prepositional Phrases (put in parentheses and label “prep ph”) • 3 Objects of the Preposition (label with “op”) • 1 Participial Phrase (put in parentheses and label with “part ph”) • 1 Object of the Participle (label “obj part”)

14. Compare • Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same participial phrase. • “I labeled ____________ as the participial phrase because ____________________________.”

15. She = subject (the “who” or “what” of the verb) • Stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard = predicate (what the subject is doing or being; the verb and its modifiers) • by the window; at a gray cat; in a gray backyard = prepositional phrases (group of words beginning with a pronoun and ending with a noun or pronoun) • window; cat; backyard = objects of the preposition (follows preposition and tells “what?” or “whom?”) • walking a gray fence = participial phrase (participle plus its modifiers) • fence = object of the participle (follows the participle and tells “what?”)

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

17. DGP - Thursday Clauses and Sentence Types

18. Sentence • She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. • Word Bank: • 1 independent clause (put in brackets & label “IC”) • sentence type (choose 1) • simple, compound, complex, compound-complex • sentence purpose (choose 1) • interrogative, imperative, declarative, exclamatory

19. 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 _____________________________.”

20. Correct Answer • She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. • She stood and looked = independent clause (contains a subject and a verb; can stand on its own) • Sentence type = simple(one independent clause) • Sentence purpose = declarative(declares a statement)

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

22. DGP – Friday Weekly Quiz!