DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE

(DGP)

MYP Honors English 2B

Sentence 3

DGP - MONDAY

Punctuation and Capitalization

SENTENCE she stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard

1. Copy this sentence down as it’s written here.2. Rewrite the sentence with correct punctuation

and capitalization.

3. Word Bank:1 capital letter1 period

COMPARE Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you punctuated and capitalized the sentence the same way.

CORRECT ANSWER

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

REFLECTION

Please take a minute to write a reflection of what you learned today in your DGP folder.

DGP - TUESDAY

Parts of Speech

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)

COMPARE Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same verbs.

“I labeled ______ and ______ as verbs because _____________________________.”

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)

REFLECTION

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

DGP - WEDNESDAY

Sentence Partsand Phrases

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”)

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 ____________________________.”

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?”)

REFLECTION

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

DGP - THURSDAY

Clauses and Sentence Types

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

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 _____________________________.”

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)

REFLECTION

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

DGP – FRIDAY

Weekly Quiz!