DAILY GRAMMAR
PRACTICE
(DGP)
MYP Honors English 2B
Sentence 5
DGP - TUESDAY
Punctuation & Capitalization
and
Parts of Speech
PUNCTUATION & CAPITALIZATION
CORRECT ANSWER
Could
I enter into a festival
with this deadly weight yet
hanging round my neck and
bowing me to the ground?
capital
“C”
capital “I”
question mark after “ground”
SENTENCE

Could I enter into a festival with this deadly
weight yet hanging round my neck and bowing
me to the ground?
Word Bank:
 4 nouns (n)
 2 verbs (hv or lv or av/past or av/pres)
 4 pronouns (pro)
 2 articles (art)
 4 prepositions (prep)
 1 adjective (adj)
 1 adverb (adv)
 2 participles (part)
 1 coordinating conjunction (cc)

PARTS OF SPEECH
CORRECT ANSWER
 Could
I enter into a festival with this
deadly weight yet hanging round my
neck and bowing me to the ground?
festival; weight; neck; ground = nouns (n)
 could; enter = verbs (hv; av/past)
 I; my; me; this = pronouns (pro)
 a; the = articles (art)
 into; with; round; to = prepositions (prep)
 deadly = adjective
 yet = adverb (adv)
 hanging; bowing = participles (part)
 and = coordinating conjunction (cc)

DGP - WEDNESDAY
Sentence Parts
and Phrases
SENTENCE

Could I enter into a festival with this
deadly weight yet hanging round my
neck and bowing me to the ground?
Word Bank:
 1 subject (underline and label with “S”)
 1 predicate (double-underline and label with “P”)
 4 Prepositional Phrases (put in parentheses and
label with “prep ph”)
 4 Objects of the Preposition (label with “obj prep”)
 2 Participial Phrases (put in parentheses and label
with “part ph”)
 2 Objects of the Participle (label with “obj part)

CORRECT ANSWER
 Could
I enter into a festival with this
deadly weight yet hanging round my
neck and bowing me to the ground?
I
= subject
 could enter = predicate
 into a festival; with this deadly weight; round my
neck; to the ground = prepositional phrases
 festival; weight; neck; ground = objects of the
preposition
 hanging round my neck; bowing me = participial
phrases
 neck; me = objects of the participle
DGP - THURSDAY
Clauses and
Sentence Types
SENTENCE
Could
I enter into a festival
with this deadly weight yet
hanging round my neck and
bowing me to the ground?
 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
CORRECT ANSWER

Could I enter into a festival with
this deadly weight yet hanging
round my neck and bowing me to
the ground?
 Could
I enter into a festival with this deadly weight
yet hanging round my neck and bowing me to the
ground? = independent clause

Sentence type = complex (one independent clause +
one dependent clause)

Sentence purpose = interrogative (asks a question)