Daily Grammar Practice Fall 2011

Their team will practice after school. August 22, 2011 Directions: Write the sentence on your paper in ink. Label the parts of speech. Every word is a part of speech so they should all be labeled. Label what kind of verb and conjunction. Their team will practice after school.

Answers Their = possessive pronoun team = concrete noun will = helping verb practice = action verb after = preposition school = concrete noun Notes: There = demonstrative pronoun (placement) They’re = contraction – they + are Their = possessive pronoun (whose is it?) Prepositions = must be part of a prepositional phrase Helping verbs are only helping if there is another verb present

Jeb likes cars, but he can’t drive yet. August 29, 2011 Directions: Write the sentence on your paper in ink. Label the parts of speech. Every word is a part of speech so they should all be labeled. Label what kind of verb and conjunction. Jeb likes cars, but he can’t drive yet.

Answers: Jeb: noun likes: action verb cars: noun but: coordinating conjunction he: pronoun can’t: can – helping verb not – adverb drive: action verb yet: adverb Notes: Not is not a verb! Yet – common adverb, answer question, when? Coordinating conjunction with a comma connects two independent clauses

September 12, 2011 Directions: Write the sentence on your paper in ink. Label the parts of speech. Every word is a part of speech so they should all be labeled. Label what kind of verb and conjunction. Sara read the novel To Kill a Mockingbird in her English class.

Answers: Sara: noun Read: action verb The: article, adjective Novel: noun To Kill a Mockingbird: noun In: preposition Her: possessive pronoun English: adjective Class: noun

September 19, 2011 Directions: Write the sentence on your paper in ink. Label the parts of speech. Every word is a part of speech so they should all be labeled. Label what kind of verb and conjunction. Can you come over and watch the movie Casablanca after school?

Answers: Can: helping verb You: pronoun Come: action verb Over: adverb And: coordinating conjunction Watch: action verb The: adjective Movie: noun Casablanca: noun After: preposition School: noun

Each of the girls did her homework. September 26, 2011 Directions: Write the sentence on your paper in ink. Label the parts of the sentence. Subject(s), verb(s), compliment(s), phrase(s), clause(s) and sentence type. Each of the girls did her homework.

Answers: Each: Subject Of the girls: Prepositional phrase – adj. Did: action verb Her: personal pronoun Homework: direct object