DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE (DGP) MYP Honors English 2B Sentence 9

Punctuation & Capitalization DGP - MONDAY Punctuation & Capitalization

SENTENCE he found that a travelers life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments Word Bank: 1 capital letter 1 apostrophe 1 period

CORRECT ANSWER He found that a traveler’s life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. Word Bank: 1 capital letter – beginning of the sentence 1 apostrophe – possessive noun 1 period – declarative sentences require periods at the end

DGP - TUESDAY Parts of Speech

SENTENCE He found that a traveler’s life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. Word Bank: 4 nouns (n) 3 verbs (hv or lv or av and past or pres) 5 pronouns (pro) 1 article (art) 1 preposition (prep) 1 adjective (adj)

CORRECT ANSWER He found that a traveler’s life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. traveler’s; life; pain; enjoyments = nouns found; is; includes = verbs he; that; one; that; its = pronouns a = article amidst = preposition much = adjective

Sentence Parts and Phrases DGP - WEDNESDAY Sentence Parts and Phrases

SENTENCE He found that a traveler’s life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. Word Bank: 3 subjects (underline and label with “S”) 3 predicates (double-underline and label with “P”) 1 Prepositional Phrase (put in parentheses and label with “prep ph”) 1 Object of the Preposition (label with “obj prep”) 2 Direct Objects (label with “DO”)

CORRECT ANSWER he; life; that = subjects He found that a traveler’s life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. he; life; that = subjects found; is; includes = predicates amidst its enjoyments = prep. phrase enjoyments = object of the preposition that a traveler’s life is one; pain = direct objects

Clauses, Sentence Types, & Sentence Purposes DGP - THURSDAY Clauses, Sentence Types, & Sentence Purposes

SENTENCE He found that a traveler’s life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. Word Bank: 1 independent clause (put in brackets & label “IC”) 2 dependent clauses (put in brackets & label “DC”) sentence type (choose 1) simple, compound, complex, compound-complex sentence purpose (choose 1) interrogative, imperative, declarative, exclamatory

CORRECT ANSWER He found that a traveler’s life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. He found that a traveler’s life is one = independent clause that a traveler’s life is one; that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments = dependent clauses Complex = sentence type (one independent clause + one or more dependent clauses) Declarative = sentence purpose (makes a statement)