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

2. Punctuation and Capitalization
DGP - Monday
Punctuation and Capitalization

3. 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.

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
What’s the point of your comment, man?

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 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

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

10. 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)

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 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)

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

15. 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)

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. 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

19. 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 __________.”

20. 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)

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!