1. Daily Grammar Practice (DGP)
MYP Honors English 2B
Sentence 3

2. Punctuation and Capitalization
DGP - Monday
Punctuation and Capitalization

3. Sentence
she stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard
Copy this sentence down as it’s written here.
Rewrite the sentence with correct punctuation and capitalization.
Word Bank:
1 capital letter
1 period

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

5. Correct Answer
She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.

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

7. DGP - Tuesday
Parts of Speech

8. Sentence 4 Nouns (n) 1 Pronoun (pro) 2 Verbs (av/past)
She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.
Word Bank:
4 Nouns (n)
1 Pronoun (pro)
2 Verbs (av/past)
4 Articles (art)
3 Prepositions (prep)
3 Adjectives (adj)
2 Adverbs (adv)
1 Participle (part)
1 Coordinating Conjunction (cc)

9. Compare
Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same verbs.
“I labeled ______ and ______ as verbs because _____________________________.”

10. window; cat; fence; backyard = nouns (person, place, thing, idea)
She = pronoun (takes the place of a noun and shows possession)
stood; looked = action verbs: past tense (shows past action)
the; a; a; a = articles (a, an, the)
by; at; in = prepositions (shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence)
gray; gray; gray = adjectives (modifies nouns and pronouns)
out; dully = adverbs (tells How? When? Where? To what extent?)
walking = participle (verb that acts like an adjective; ends in –ing or –ed, etc.)
and = coordinating conjuction (FANBOYS)

11. Reflection
Please take a minute to write a reflection of what you learned today in the appropriate section of your DGP weekly worksheet.

12. Sentence Parts and Phrases
DGP - Wednesday
Sentence Parts
and Phrases

13. Sentence 1 Subject (underline and label with “S”)
She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.
Word Bank:
1 Subject (underline and label with “S”)
1 Predicate (double-underline and label with “P”)
3 Prepositional Phrases (put in parentheses and label “prep ph”)
3 Objects of the Preposition (label with “op”)
1 Participial Phrase (put in parentheses and label with “part ph”)
1 Object of the Participle (label “obj part”)

14. Compare
Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same participial phrase.
“I labeled ____________ as the participial phrase because ____________________________.”

15. She = subject (the “who” or “what” of the verb)
Stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard = predicate (what the subject is doing or being; the verb and its modifiers)
by the window; at a gray cat; in a gray backyard = prepositional phrases (group of words beginning with a pronoun and ending with a noun or pronoun)
window; cat; backyard = objects of the preposition (follows preposition and tells “what?” or “whom?”)
walking a gray fence = participial phrase (participle plus its modifiers)
fence = object of the participle (follows the participle and tells “what?”)

16. Reflection
Please take a minute to write a reflection of what you learned today in the appropriate section of your DGP weekly worksheet.

17. Clauses and Sentence Types
DGP - Thursday
Clauses and
Sentence Types

18. Sentence
She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.
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

19. 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 _____________________________.”

20. Correct Answer
She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.
She stood and looked = independent clause (contains a subject and a verb; can stand on its own)
Sentence type = simple (one independent clause)
Sentence purpose = declarative (declares a statement)

21. Reflection
Please take a minute to write a reflection of what you learned today in the appropriate section of your DGP weekly worksheet.

22. DGP – Friday
Weekly Quiz!