DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE

(DGP)

MYP Honors English 2B

Sentence 1

DGP - MONDAY

Punctuation and Capitalization

SENTENCE go often to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path

1. Copy this sentence down as it is written here.

2. Rewrite the sentence with correct punctuation and capitalization.

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

CORRECT ANSWER

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

REFLECTION

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

DGP - TUESDAY

Parts of Speech

SENTENCE Go often to the house of thy friend,

for weeds choke the unused path.

Word Bank: • 1 Pronoun (pro)• 4 Nouns (n)• 2 Verbs (av/pres)• 2 Articles (art)• 2 Prepositions (prep)• 1 Adverb (adv)• 1 Participle (part)• 1 Coordinating Conjunction (cc)

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

“I labeled ______, ______, ______, and ______ as nouns because ____________________.”

go; choke = action verb: present tense (shows action)

often = adverb (tells How? When? Where? To what extent?)

the; the = article (a, an, the) house; friend; weeds; path = nouns

(person, place, thing, idea) to; of = preposition (shows a

relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence)

thy = possessive pronoun (takes the place of a noun and shows possession)

for = coordinating conjuction (FANBOYS)

unused = participle (verb that acts like an adjective; ends in –ing or –ed, etc.)

CORRECT ANSWER Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the

unused path.

go; choke = action verb: present tense (shows action) often = adverb (tells How? When? Where? To what

extent?) the; the = article (a, an, the) house; friend; weeds; path = nouns (person, place,

thing, idea) to; of = preposition (shows a relationship between a

noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence)

thy = possessive pronoun (takes the place of a noun and shows possession)

for = coordinating conjuction (FANBOYS) unused = participle (verb that acts like an adjective;

ends in –ing or –ed, etc.)

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 Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Word Bank: • 2 subjects (underline and label with S)• 2 predicates (double-underline and label with

P)• 2 prepositional phrases (in parentheses)• 2 objects of the preposition (Obj Prep)• 1 direct object (do)

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

“I labeled _____ and _____ as the subjects because ____________________________.”

CORRECT ANSWER (you); weeds = subject (the “who” or

“what” of the verb) go often to the house of thy friend; choke

the unused path = predicate (what the subject is doing or being; the verb and its modifiers)

to the house; of thy friend = prepositional phrase (group of words beginning with a pronoun and ending with a noun or pronoun)

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

path = direct object (follows an action verb; to find it, say, “subject, verb, what?” or “subject, verb, whom?”)

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 Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Word Bank: • 2 independent clauses (labeled “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 Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

go often; weeds choke the unused path = independent clause (contains a subject and a verb; can stand on its own)

Sentence type = compound(two independent clauses)

Sentence purpose = imperative (gives a command and ends in a period)

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

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