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

Punctuation and Capitalization DGP - Monday Punctuation and Capitalization

whats the point of your comment man Sentence whats the point of your comment man Copy this sentence down as it is written here. Rewrite the sentence with correct punctuation and capitalization.

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

Correct Answer What’s the point of your comment, man?

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DGP - Tuesday Parts of Speech

Sentence What’s the point of your comment, man? Word Bank: 1 article 1 interrogative pronoun 1 linking verb 3 nouns 1 possessive pronoun 1 preposition

Compare Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same nouns. “I labeled _____, _____, and _____ as nouns because ___________________________.”

Correct Answer What’s the point of your comment, man? what = interrogative pronoun (asks a question) is = linking verb (links a noun to an adjective or to another noun) the = article (a, an, the) point, comment, man = nouns (person, place, thing, idea) of = preposition (shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence) your = possessive pronoun (takes the place of a noun and shows possession)

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Sentence Parts and Phrases DGP - Wednesday Sentence Parts and Phrases

Sentence What’s the point of your comment, man? Word Bank: 1 subject (underline and label with S) 1 predicate (double-underline and label with P) 1 prepositional phrase (in parentheses) 1 object of the preposition (Obj Prep) 1 noun of direct address (NDA)

Compare Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same subject. “I labeled ________ as the subject because __________.”

Correct Answer What’s the point of your comment, man? point = subject (the “who” or “what” of the verb) is = predicate (what the subject is doing or being; the verb and its modifiers) of your comment = prepositional phrase (group of words beginning with a pronoun and ending with a noun or pronoun) comment = object of the preposition (follows preposition and tells “what?” or “whom?”) man = noun of direct address (person being spoken to in a sentence)

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Clauses and Sentence Types DGP - Thursday Clauses and Sentence Types

What’s the point of your comment, man? Sentence What’s the point of your comment, man? Word Bank: 1 independent clause (labeled “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 ________ as the independent clause because __________.”

What’s the point of your comment, man? Correct Answer What’s the point of your comment, man? What’s the point = independent clause (contains a subject and a verb; can stand on its own) Sentence type = simple (only one independent clause) Sentence purpose = interrogative (ask a question)

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