DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE

(DGP)

MYP Honors English 1B

Sentence 5

DGP - TUESDAY

Capitalization & Punctuation

andParts of Speech

CORRECT ANSWER He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it.

capital “H” period after “it”

SENTENCE He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it.

Word Bank: 4 pronouns (pro) 5 verbs (av/past or av/pres or lv or hv) 1 article (art) 2 nouns (n) 2 conjunctions (cc or sc) 2 prepositions (prep) 1 adverb (adv) 1 adjective (adj)

CORRECT ANSWERHe pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it.

He; his; he; it = pronouns (pro) pulled; wondered; might undertake; washing =

verbs (hv + av/past; av/past) the = article (art) shirt; adventure = nouns (n) and; whether = conjunctions (cc, sc) at; of = prepositions (prep) distastefully = adverb (adv) grey = adjective (adj)

REFLECTION

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DGP - WEDNESDAY

Sentence Partsand Phrases

SENTENCE He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it.

Word Bank: 2 Subjects (underline and label with “S”) 2 Predicates (double-underline and label with “P”) –

one is a compound predicate; one is simple 2 Prepositional Phrases (put in parentheses and label

with “prep ph”) 2 Objects of the Preposition (label with “obj prep”)

CORRECT ANSWER He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it.

He; he = subject (the “who” or “what” of the verb)

pulled and wondered; might undertake = predicate (what the subject is doing or being; the verb and its modifiers)

at his grey shirt; of washing it = prepositional phrases (group of words beginning with a pronoun and ending with a noun or pronoun)

shirt; it = object of the preposition (follows preposition and tells “what?” or “whom?”)

DGP - THURSDAY

Clauses and Sentence Types

SENTENCE He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it.

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

CORRECT ANSWER He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt

and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it.

He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered = independent clause (contains a subject and a verb; can stand on its own)

whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it = dependent clause (does not express a complete thought--cannot stand on its own)

Sentence type = complex (contains one dependent clause & one independent clause)

Sentence purpose = declarative (makes a statement)

DGP – FRIDAY

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