DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE (DGP) MYP Honors English 1B Sentence 9

DGP – MONDAY Punctuation & Capitalization

SENTENCE sally marsh a resident of denver colorado was among the first of those who voted for president obama Word Bank: 6 Capital Letters 3 Commas 1 Period

CORRECT ANSWER Sally Marsh, a resident of Denver, Colorado, was among the first of those who voted for President Obama. Changes: 6 Capital Letters: S, M, D, C, P, O = proper nouns 3 Commas: #1, 3 = separates appositive phrase from independent clause; #2 = separates city and state 1 Period: declarative sentences end with a period.

DGP – TUESDAY Parts of Speech

SENTENCE Sally Marsh, a resident of Denver, Colorado, was among the first of those who voted for President Obama. Word Bank: 5 Nouns (n) 2 Articles (art) 4 Prepositions (prep) 2 Verbs (av or lv or hv; past or pres or fut) 2 Pronouns (pro)

CORRECT ANSWER Sally Marsh, a resident of Denver, Colorado, was among the first of those who voted for President Obama. Sally Marsh; resident; Denver, Colorado; first; President Obama = nouns (n) a; the = articles (art) of; among; of; for = prepositions (prep) was; voted = verbs (av/past; hv/past + av/past) those; who = pronouns (pro)

DGP - WEDNESDAY Sentence Parts and Phrases

SENTENCE Sally Marsh, a resident of Denver, Colorado, was among the first of those who voted for President Obama. Word Bank: 2 Subjects (underline and label with “S”) 2 Predicates (double-underline and label with “P”) 4 Prepositional Phrases (put in parentheses and label with “prep ph”) 4 Objects of the Preposition (label with “obj prep”) 1 Appositive Phrase (put in brackets, label with “app ph”)

CORRECT ANSWER Sally Marsh, a resident of Denver, Colorado, was among the first of those who voted for President Obama. Sally Marsh; who = subjects was; voted = predicates of Denver, Colorado; among the first; of those; for President Obama = prepositional phrases Denver, Colorado; first; those; President Obama = objects of preposition a resident of Denver, Colorado = appositive phrase

DGP - THURSDAY Clauses, Sentence Types, & Sentence Purposes

SENTENCE Sally Marsh, a resident of Denver, Colorado, was among the first of those who voted for President Obama. Word Bank: o 1 independent clause (put in brackets & label “IC”) o 1 dependent clause (put in brackets and label “DC”) o sentence type (choose 1) simple, compound, complex, compound-complex o sentence purpose (choose 1) interrogative, imperative, declarative, exclamatory

CORRECT ANSWER Sally Marsh, a resident of Denver, Colorado, was among the first of those who voted for President Obama. Sally Marsh was among the first of those = independent clause who voted for President Obama = dependent clause complex = sentence type (one independent + one dependent clause) declarative = sentence purpose (makes a statement)