Daily Grammar Practice (DGP)

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

2. DGP - Monday Punctuation and Capitalization

3. Sentence • whats the point of your comment man • 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 • What’s the point of your comment, man?

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 • What’s the point of your comment, man? • Word Bank: • 1 article • 1 interrogative pronoun • 1 linking verb • 3 nouns • 1 possessive pronoun • 1 preposition

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. Correct Answer • What’s the point of your comment, man? • what = interrogative pronoun(asks a question) • is = linking verb(links a noun to an adjective or to another noun) • the = article(a, an, the) • point, comment, man = nouns(person, place, thing, idea) • of = preposition(shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence) • your = possessive pronoun(takes the place of a noun and shows possession)

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 • What’s the point of your comment, man? • Word Bank: • 1 subject (underline and label with S) • 1 predicate (double-underline and label with P) • 1 prepositional phrase (in parentheses) • 1 object of the preposition (Obj Prep) • 1 noun of direct address (NDA)

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

15. Correct Answer • What’s the point of your comment, man? • point = subject (the “who” or “what” of the verb) • is = predicate (what the subject is doing or being; the verb and its modifiers) • of your comment = prepositional phrase (group of words beginning with a pronoun and ending with a noun or pronoun) • comment = object of the preposition (follows preposition and tells “what?” or “whom?”) • man = noun of direct address (person being spoken to in a sentence)

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 • What’s the point of your comment, man? • Word Bank: • 1 independent clause (labeled “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 ________ as the independent clause because __________.”

20. Correct Answer • What’s the point of your comment, man? • What’s the point = independent clause (contains a subject and a verb; can stand on its own) • Sentence type = simple (only one independent clause) • Sentence purpose = interrogative (ask a question)

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!