MYP Honors English 2B: DGP Sentence 6
Notes & Word Bank
Sentence: send holly and me a postcard when youre visiting william faulkners house in oxford
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Monday- Punctuation and Capitalization
Notes
 You are can be made into the contraction you’re, and therefore needs an apostrophe.
o You’re is not the same as your. Your is possessive. Example: your car not you’re car.
 A comma is needed to separate the city and state (example: Denver, Colorado).
Word Bank
 6 capital letters
 2 apostrophes
 1 comma
 1 period
Tuesday-Parts of Speech
Notes
* me is correct in this sentence (instead of I) because objective pronouns serve as indirect objects, direct
objects, and objects of prepositions.
Noun
Pronoun
Verb
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Article
Preposition
Adverb
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Participle
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A person, place, thing, or idea
A word that replaces a noun
A word that shows action (action verb)
o Example: She wrote a card.
A word that helps link a noun or pronoun to an adjective (linking verb)
o Example: English is exciting. The flower smells pretty.
A word that “helps” an action verb or linking verb (helping verb)
o Example: We have been taking notes all day. She will be cold today.
Modifies a noun using a, an, or the
Shows a relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence
Modifies adjectives, verbs, and other adverbs
Tells How? When? Where? To what extent?
not and never are always adverbs
yet can be an adverb or a coordinating conjunction depending on how it’s
being used
Verb that acts like an adjective
Ends in –ing or –ed or –en (or other past tense ending)
Examples:
o She is a running fanatic.
o The ruined carpet cost them a lot of money to replace.
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Conjunction
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Interjection
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Joins two clauses
Different types:
o Coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS)
 yet can be an adverb or a coordinating conjunction depending
on how it’s being used
o Subordinating conjunctions (aka subordinators): starts adverbial
dependent clauses and therefore must be followed by a subject and
verb. (after, since, before, while, because, although, so that, if, when,
whenever, as, even though, until, unless, as if, etc.)
Expresses emotion but has no real connection with the rest of the sentence
Set apart from the sentence by a comma or exclamation point
Word Bank
 7 nouns (n)
 3 verbs (hv or lv or av and past or pres or pres prog or fut)
 2 pronouns (pro)
 1 article (art)
 1 preposition (prep)
 2 conjunctions (cc or sc)
Wednesday-Sentence Parts and Phrases
Notes
Subject
Predicate
Prepositional Phrase
Object of the Preposition
Direct Object
Indirect Object
Participial Phrase
Object of the Participle
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The “who” or “what” of the verb
What the subject is doing or being (the verb and its modifiers)
Group of words beginning with the preposition and ending with the
object of the preposition
Can be adverbial or adjectival in nature
The final word in a prepositional phrase (a noun or pronoun)
It will NEVER be the subject of the sentence
A noun or pronoun and is never in a prepositional phrase
Follows an action verb
To find it, say “subject, verb, what?” or “subject, verb, whom?”
Example: I like English. (Say, “I like what?” English = direct object)
A noun or pronoun and is never in a prepositional phrase
Comes before a direct object and after the verb
To find it, say “subject, verb, direct object, and to or for who or what”
Example: He gave me the paper. (Say, “He gave the paper to whom?”
me = indirect object)
Participle plus its modifiers and objects
Follows the participle and tells “what?”
Word Bank
 2 subjects (underline and label with “S”)
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2 predicates (double-underline and label with “P”)
1 Prepositional Phrase (put in parentheses and label with “prep ph”)
1 Object of the Preposition (label with “obj prep”)
2 Indirect Objects (label with “IO”)
2 Direct Objects (label with “DO”)
Thursday-Clauses and Sentence Types
Notes
Independent Clause
Simple Sentence
Compound Sentence
Complex Sentence
Compound-Complex
Sentence
Interrogative Sentence
Declarative Sentence
Imperative Sentence
Exclamatory Sentence
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Contains a subject and a verb
Can stand on its own
Contains only one independent clause
Contains two or more independent clauses
Contains one or more dependent clauses and one independent clause
Contains one or more dependent clauses and two or more independent
clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction + comma, or a semicolon
Asks a question and ends in a question mark
Declares a statement
Gives a command
Exclaims an idea with a lot of emotion
Word Bank
 1 Independent Clause (put in brackets and label “IC”)
 1 Dependent Clause (put in brackets and label “DC”)
 Sentence Type (choose 1)
o Simple (s), Compound (cd), Complex (cx), Compound-Complex (cd-cx)
 Sentence Purpose (choose 1)
o Interrogative (int), Imperative (imp), Declarative (dec), Exclamatory (exc)
Friday-Quiz
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