DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE

(DGP)

MYP Honors English 1B

Sentence 8

DGP – TUESDAY

Punctuation & Capitalization

ANDParts of Speech

PUNCTUATION & CAPITALIZATIONCORRECT ANSWER James Agee, who wrote both poetry and nonfiction, was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Changes: 5 Capital Letters 4 Commas 1 Period

PARTS OF SPEECHSENTENCE James Agee, who wrote both poetry and nonfiction, was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Word Bank: 6 Nouns (n) 1 Pronoun (pro) 3 Verbs (av or lv or hv; past or pres or fut) 1 Adjective (adj) 2 Prepositions (prep) 1 Conjunction (cc or sc)

CORRECT ANSWER James Agee, who wrote both poetry and nonfiction, was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

James Agee; poetry; nonfiction; November 27, 1909; Knoxville; Tennessee = nouns (n)

who = pronoun (pro) wrote; was born = verbs (av/past; hv/past

+ av/past)on; in = prepositions (prep)both = adjective (adj)and = conjunction (cc)

DGP - WEDNESDAY

Sentence Partsand Phrases

SENTENCE James Agee, who wrote both poetry and nonfiction, was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Word Bank: 2 Subjects (underline and label with “S”) 2 Predicates (double-underline and label with “P”) 2 Prepositional Phrases (put in parentheses and

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

prep”)

CORRECT ANSWER James Agee, who wrote both poetry and nonfiction, was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

James Agee; who = subjects wrote; was born = predicates on November 27, 1909; in Knoxville,

Tennessee = prepositional phrases November 27, 1909; Knoxville,

Tennessee = objects of preposition

DGP - THURSDAY

Clauses, Sentence Types, &Sentence Purposes

SENTENCE James Agee, who wrote both poetry

and nonfiction, was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Word Bank: o 1 independent clause (put in brackets & label “IC”)o 1 dependent clause (put in brackets and label “DC”)o sentence type (choose 1)• simple, compound, complex, compound-complex

o sentence purpose (choose 1)• interrogative, imperative, declarative, exclamatory

CORRECT ANSWER James Agee, who wrote both poetry and nonfiction, was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

James Agee was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee = independent clause

who wrote both poetry and nonfiction = dependent clause

complex = sentence type (one independent + one dependent clause)

declarative = sentence purpose (makes a statement)