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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