DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE (DGP) MYP Honors English 2B Sentence 2 DGP - TUESDAY Punctuation & Capitalization and Parts of Speech PUNCTUATION & CAPITALIZATION CORRECT ANSWER Juan had a moist sensation about the eyes; his master’s action touched his susceptible heart. capital “J” semicolon after “eyes” apostrophe between “r” and “s” in “masters” period after “heart” SENTENCE Juan had a moist sensation about the eyes; his master’s action touched his susceptible heart. Word Bank: 1 Proper Noun (N) 1 Possessive Noun (pos n) 4 Nouns (n) 2 Possessive Pronouns (pos pro) 2 Verbs (av/past) 2 Articles (art) 1 Preposition (prep) 2 Adjectives (adj) COMPARE Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same adjectives. “I labeled ______ and ______ as adjectives because _____________________________.” PARTS OF SPEECH CORRECT ANSWER Juan had a moist sensation about the eyes; his master’s action touched his susceptible heart. Juan= proper noun (N) master’s = possessive noun (pos n) sensation; eyes; action; heart = nouns (n) 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 Parts and Phrases SENTENCE Juan had a moist sensation about the eyes; his master’s action touched his susceptible heart. • • Word Bank: 2 subjects (underline and label with S) 2 predicates (double-underline and label with P) 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 Juan had a moist sensation about the eyes; his master’s action touched his susceptible heart. Juan; action = subject (the “who” or “what” of the verb) had a moist sensation about the eyes; touched his susceptible heart = predicate (what the subject is doing or being; the verb and its modifiers) 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 Juan had a moist sensation about the eyes; his master’s action touched his susceptible heart. Word Bank: • 2 independent clauses (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 Juan had a moist sensation about the eyes; his master’s action touched his susceptible heart. Juan had a moist sensation about the eyes; his master’s action touched his susceptible heart = independent clauses (contains a subject and a verb; can stand on its own) Sentence type = compound (two independent clauses) Sentence purpose = declarative (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 Weekly Quiz!