D AILY G RAMMAR P RACTICE (DGP) MYP Honors English 1B Sentence 5

DGP - T UESDAY Capitalization & Punctuation and Parts of Speech

C ORRECT A NSWER He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it. capital “H” period after “it”

S ENTENCE He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it. Word Bank: 4 pronouns (pro) 4 verbs (av/past or av/pres or lv or hv) 1 participle (part) 1 article (art) 2 nouns (n) 2 conjunctions (cc or sc) 2 prepositions (prep) 1 adverb (adv) 1 adjective (adj)

C ORRECT A NSWER He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it. He; his; he; it = pronouns (pro) pulled; wondered; might undertake = verbs (av/past, hv + av/past) washing = participle (part) the = article (art) shirt; adventure = nouns (n) and; whether = conjunctions (cc, sc) at; of = prepositions (prep) distastefully = adverb (adv) grey = adjective (adj)

DGP - W EDNESDAY Sentence Parts and Phrases

S ENTENCE He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it. Word Bank: 2 Subjects (underline and label with “S”) 2 Predicates (double-underline and label with “P”) – one is a compound predicate; one is simple 2 Prepositional Phrases (put in parentheses and label with “prep ph”) 2 Objects of the Preposition (label with “obj prep”)

C ORRECT A NSWER He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it. He; he = subjects (the “who” or “what” of the verb) pulled and wondered; might undertake = predicates (what the subject is doing or being; the verb and its modifiers) at his grey shirt; of washing it = prepositional phrases (group of words beginning with a pronoun and ending with a noun or pronoun) shirt; it = object of the preposition (follows preposition and tells “what?” or “whom?”)

DGP - T HURSDAY Clauses and Sentence Types

S ENTENCE He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it. Word Bank: 1 independent clause (put in brackets & label “IC”) 1 dependent clause (underline & label “DC”) sentence type (choose 1) simple, compound, complex, compound-complex sentence purpose (choose 1) interrogative, imperative, declarative, exclamatory

C ORRECT A NSWER He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it. He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered = independent clause (contains a subject and a verb; can stand on its own) whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it = dependent clause (does not express a complete thought--cannot stand on its own) Sentence type = complex (contains one dependent clause & one independent clause) Sentence purpose = declarative (makes a statement)