DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE (DGP) MYP Honors English 1B Sentence 8

DGP – TUESDAY Punctuation & Capitalization AND Parts of Speech

PUNCTUATION & CAPITALIZATION CORRECT ANSWER James Agee, who wrote both poetry and nonfiction, was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Changes: 5 Capital Letters 4 Commas 1 Period

PARTS OF SPEECH SENTENCE James Agee, who wrote both poetry and nonfiction, was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Word Bank: 6 Nouns (n) 1 Pronoun (pro) 3 Verbs (av or lv or hv; past or pres or fut) 1 Adjective (adj) 2 Prepositions (prep) 1 Conjunction (cc or sc)

CORRECT ANSWER James Agee, who wrote both poetry and nonfiction, was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee. James Agee; poetry; nonfiction; November 27, 1909; Knoxville; Tennessee = nouns (n) who = pronoun (pro) wrote; was born = verbs (av or lv; past or pres) on; in = preposition (prep) both = adjective (adj) and = conjunction (cc or sc)

DGP - WEDNESDAY Sentence Parts and Phrases

SENTENCE James Agee, who wrote both poetry and nonfiction, was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Word Bank: 2 Subjects (underline and label with “S”) 2 Predicates (double-underline and label with “P”) 2 Prepositional Phrases (put in parentheses and label with “prep ph”) 2 Objects of the Preposition (label with “obj prep”)

CORRECT ANSWER James Agee, who wrote both poetry and nonfiction, was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee. James Agee; who = subjects wrote; was born = predicates on November 27, 1909; in Knoxville, Tennessee = prepositional phrases November 27, 1909; Knoxville, Tennessee = objects of preposition

DGP - THURSDAY Clauses, Sentence Types, & Sentence Purposes

SENTENCE James Agee, who wrote both poetry and nonfiction, was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee. 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 James Agee, who wrote both poetry and nonfiction, was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee. James Agee was born on November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee = independent clause who wrote both poetry and nonfiction = dependent clause complex = sentence type declarative = sentence purpose