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DGP – Sentence 1. Parts of Speech. Sentence / Word Bank. Oh, what have I done to be blessed with such friends? Word Bank: action verb, adjective, helping verb, infinitive, interjection, interrogative pronoun, noun, preposition, pronoun. Compare.
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DGP – Sentence 1 Parts of Speech
Sentence / Word Bank • Oh, what have I done to be blessed with such friends? • Word Bank: action verb, adjective, helping verb, infinitive, interjection, interrogative pronoun, noun, preposition, pronoun
Compare • Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same preposition. • “I labeled ________ as a preposition because __________.”
Correct Answer • Oh, what have I done to be blessed with such friends? • oh = interjection (expresses emotion but has no real connection with the rest of the sentence) • what = interrogative pronoun (asks a question) • have = helping verb (“helps” an action verb or linking verb) • I = pronoun (takes the place of a noun) • done = action verb (shows action)
Correct Answer • Oh, what have I done to be blessed with such friends? • to be blessed = infinitive (to + verb) • with = preposition (shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence) • such = adjective (modifies and noun or pronoun) • friends = noun (person, place, thing, idea)