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ENGLISH 12
DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE
DGP #1- Monday, August 26, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 Typewriters, originally designed as writing machines
for the blind became popular in the business world
in the 1880’s, and created many new jobs for women.
 Sentence of the Week: Monday- Label the Parts of Speech)
 it is all dark and horrid to me for i can remember
nothing
DGP #2- Tuesday, August 27, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 Alaska, the largest state with the fewest people has
one third of it’s land inside the Artic Circle.
 Sentence of the Week: Identify the sentence parts including
subject, predicate and phrases.
 it is all dark and horrid to me for i can remember
nothing
DGP #3- Wednesday, August 28, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 Humorist, Mark Twain (1835,1910) wore white linen
suits in summer and in winter, because they made
him feel “clean in a dirty world.”
 Sentence of the Week: Using brackets, seperate the
clauses. Also, identify the sentence type and purpose.
 it is all dark and horrid to me for i can remember
nothing
DGP #4- Thursday, August 29, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s
marks.
 Harriet Tubman, the former slave who became
famous for her courage as a conductor on the
Underground Railroad once made the statement “On
my Underground Railroad I never ran my train off
the track and I never lost a passenger.”
 Sentence of the Week: Add correct punctuation and
capitalization.
 it is all dark and horrid to me for i can remember
nothing
DGP #5- Friday, August 30, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 According to a well publicized goverment report,
more than half of Americas’ new jobs will be in the
following industries, health services, business
services, and retail trade.
DGP #6- Tuesday, September 03, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 Slow sustained streching helps lenghten tight
cramped muscles increase flexibility and prevent
muscle strains tiny tears in muscle fibers.
 Sentence of the Week: Monday- Label the Parts of Speech)
 His first act was to elevate his torch to a level with
my face squint malignantly project under his lip and
turn away.
DGP #7- Wednesday, September 04, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 The largest gold nugget ever found weighed about
200 pounds was descovered in 1969 near Ballarat
Australia, and was nicknamed Welcome Stranger.
 Sentence of the Week: Tuesday- Identify sentence parts:
subject, predicate, direct object, indirect object, phrases,
etc.
 his first act was to elevate his torch to a level with my
face squint malignantly project under his lip and
turn away.
DGP #8- Thursday, September 5, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 German leader Adolph Hitler born in Braunau,
Australia in 1889 took his own life at 330 p m on
May 1 1945 in Berlin Germany.
 Sentence of the Week: Thursday- Identify clauses:
sentence type and purpose, etc.
 his first act was to elevate his torch to a level with my
face squint malignantly project under his lip and
turn away.
DGP #9- Friday, September 06, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 Pigs, I learned this when I visited my uncles farm can get
sunburned just like humans; this explanes why pigs hang
out in cool soft mud whenever possible.
 Sentence of the Week: Friday-Add correct punctuation and
capitalization.
 his first act was to elevate his torch to a level with my
face squint malignantly project under his lip and
turn away.
DGP #10- Monday, September 09, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 Ms. Walker asked “Class how would you rank the
following qualities: honesty kindness, love
achievment, self esteem, loyalty and financial
success”?`
 Sentence of the Week: Monday- Identify the part of speech
for each word in the sentence.
 sit down and read the importance of being earnest a
play by oscar wilde with jacob and me
DGP #11- Tuesday, September 10, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 “When you set out to fail, writes John Holt in his
book, ‘How Children Fail,’ one thing is certain—you
can’t be dissappointed”.
 Sentence of the Week: Tuesday- Identify sentence parts.
 sit down and read the importance of being earnest a
play by oscar wilde with jacob and me
DGP #12- Friday, September 13, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 Though banks may supply “virtual” money in the
form of on-line cash the det my dear is all to real.
 Sentence of the Week: Friday- Identify clauses and
sentence type and purpose.
 sit down and read the importance of being earnest a
play by oscar wilde with jacob and me
DGP #13- Monday, September 16, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 In an essay entitled Why We Still Can’t Wait Coretta
Scott King wrote ‘If the alternative to full
employment is simply to wait; to tolerate in silence
the shattered dreams of jobless youth and the broken
hearts of laid off men then my choice is clear’.
 Sentence of the Week: Monday- Identify parts of speech
for each word in the sentence.
 is this a dagger which I see before me
DGP #14- Tuesday, September 17, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 George Bernard Shaw once said—If you cannot get
rid of the family skeletons you may as well make
them dance.
 Sentence of the Week: Tuesday- Identify sentence parts—
subject, predicate, direct indirect object and phrases.
 is this a dagger which I see before me
DGP #15- Thursday, September 19, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 If ice did not float. (this is called a hypothetical
question) Tons of it at both the north pole and the
south pole would sink, covering the earth with water.
 Sentence of the Week: Thursday-Identify clauses- Ind. And
Dep. Also indentify sentence type and purpose.
 is this a dagger which I see before me
DGP #16- Friday, September 20, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 The Houston rockets won back to back
championships. In the nba (national Basketball
Associasion) in 1994 and 1995.
 Sentence of the Week: Friday- Add punctuation and
capitalization.
 is this a dagger which I see before me
DGP #17- Monday, September 23, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 In an article for the british magazine, The Idler
Helen Wilkinson writes, “Many young people
critisize their managers for their “make-work” rather
than “real-work” mentality.”
 Sentence of the Week: Monday- Parts of speech- .
 each of the girls should obtain her own copy of lewis
carrolls poem jabberwocky which will be read in
class.
DGP #18- Tuesday, September 24, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 “R U confused” is the acual name of a Booklet
written by a senior English class at Fair haven Union
high school in Fair haven, Vermont. Explaining the
mysteries of the S.a.t. exam.
 Sentence of the Week: Tuesday- I dentify sentence parts:
simple and complete subject/predicate…phrases.
 each of the girls should obtain her own copy of lewis
carrolls poem jabberwocky which will be read in
class.
DGP # 19- Wednesday, September 25, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, our second and
third Presidents both died on the fourth of July in
1826. On the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the
Declaration of Independence (isn’t that amazing?).
 Sentence of the Week: Wednesday- Identify clauses:
dependent, independent, sentence type, and purpose.
 each of the girls should obtain her own copy of lewis
carrolls poem jabberwocky which will be read in
class.
DGP #20- Thursday, September 26, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 On his deathbed, the philosopher socrates said, “I am not
an athenian [a resident of Athens Greece] nor a Greek
but a Citizen of the World,” nevertheless he was executed
for supposedly corrupting the minds of young Athenians.
 Sentence of the Week: Thursday- Add correct punctuation and
capitalization.
 each of the girls should obtain her own copy of lewis
carrolls poem jabberwocky which will be read in class
DGP #21- Friday, September 27, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 Many seniors have dicided not to go on the class trip
to Arizona, nicknamed the Apache State for the
number of native americans who live there,
consequently these Classmates won’t see the painted
dessert, the petrified forest of the grand canyon.
DGP #22- Tuesday, October 1, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 In her mid-30’s, aunt Yolanda made a u-turn and,
without the benefit of even on busyness course, went
from full time Mother and President of the pta to ceo
of her own small company, we’re very proud of her.
 Sentence of the Week: Tuesday- Identify Parts of Speech.
 That is a degree of placidity which I can neither
comprehend nor respect
DGP #23- Thursday, October 3, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 Islam, a major world religion, is dominent in the
middle east, it’s followers are called muslims, and it’s
sacred book is the koran.
 Sentence of the Week: Thursday- Identify Clauses, dep.
And ind., sentence type and purpose.
 that is a degree of placidity which I can neither
comprehend nor respect
DGP #24- Friday, October 4, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 My Grandfather a world War II veteran heard
president Truman anounce that the United States
had dropped the first atomic bomb on hiroshima
Japan, three days later, a second a-bomb was
dropped on nagasaki.
 Sentence of the Week: Friday- Correct capitalization and
punctuation.
 that is a degree of placidity which I can neither
comprehend nor respect
DGP #25- Monday, October 7, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 According to Isaac Asimov “It took five mos. to get
word back to Queen Isabella about the voyage of
Columbus two wks. for Europe to hear about
Lincoln’s assasonation and only one point three
seconds to get word from Neil Armstrong that man
can walk on the moon.”
 Sentence of the Week: Monday- Label Parts of Speech.
 Oh you will give me five minutes grace replied
morcerf for I also expect a preserver
DGP# 26- Tuesday, October 8, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 In the early nineteen hundreds, the average life
expectancy for white females in the U.S. was fiftyone point eight years, in nineteen ninety-one, the
ages was seventy-nine point six years.
 Sentence of the Week: Tuesday- Sentence parts: subject,
predicate, direct and indirect objects.
 Oh you will give me five minutes grace replied
morcerf for I also expect a preserver
DGP #27- Thursday, October 10, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 If your looking for all As in weight lifting, write for
information on hand-strengthening exercises to
Sports Health five hundred twenty-seven W.
Windsor rd. Glendale Cal. 91204.
 Sentence of the Week: Thursday-Identify clauses, type and purpose.
 Oh you will give me five minutes grace replied
morcerf for I also expect a preserver
DGP #28- Friday, October 11, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 500,000 workers are employed by McDonald’s
restaurants in the United States and Canada, more
than 1 out of every eight Americans has worked in
the chain restaurant at some point in life.
 Sentence of the Week: Friday- Correct punctuation and
capitalization.
 Oh you will give me five minutes grace replied
morcerf for I also expect a preserver
DGP #29- Monday, October 14, 2013
 Correct the following sentence using proofreader’s marks.
 Both my brother-in-laws use up tanksful of gas on
their jobs, one works for the Int. Revenue Service
and the other works at a local branch of the Fed.
Housing Admin.
 Sentence of the Week: Monday- Parts of speech.
 who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I
dabbled along the unhallowed damps of the grave
or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless
clay.