1. Daily Grammar Practice
Fall 2011

2. Their team will practice after school.
August 22, 2011
Directions: Write the sentence on your paper in ink. Label the parts of speech. Every word is a part of speech so they should all be labeled. Label what kind of verb and conjunction.
Their team will practice after school.

3. Answers Their = possessive pronoun team = concrete noun
will = helping verb
practice = action verb
after = preposition
school = concrete noun
Notes:
There = demonstrative pronoun (placement)
They’re = contraction – they + are
Their = possessive pronoun (whose is it?)
Prepositions = must be part of a prepositional phrase
Helping verbs are only helping if there is another verb present

4. Jeb likes cars, but he can’t drive yet.
August 29, 2011
Directions: Write the sentence on your paper in ink. Label the parts of speech. Every word is a part of speech so they should all be labeled. Label what kind of verb and conjunction.
Jeb likes cars, but he can’t drive yet.

5. Answers: Jeb: noun likes: action verb cars: noun
but: coordinating conjunction
he: pronoun
can’t: can – helping verb not – adverb
drive: action verb
yet: adverb
Notes:
Not is not a verb!
Yet – common adverb, answer question, when?
Coordinating conjunction with a comma connects two independent clauses

6. September 12, 2011
Directions: Write the sentence on your paper in ink. Label the parts of speech. Every word is a part of speech so they should all be labeled. Label what kind of verb and conjunction. Sara read the novel To Kill a Mockingbird in her English class.

7. Answers: Sara: noun Read: action verb The: article, adjective
Novel: noun
To Kill a Mockingbird: noun
In: preposition
Her: possessive pronoun
English: adjective
Class: noun

8. September 19, 2011
Directions: Write the sentence on your paper in ink. Label the parts of speech. Every word is a part of speech so they should all be labeled. Label what kind of verb and conjunction.
Can you come over and watch the movie Casablanca after school?

9. Answers: Can: helping verb You: pronoun Come: action verb Over: adverb
And: coordinating conjunction
Watch: action verb
The: adjective
Movie: noun
Casablanca: noun
After: preposition
School: noun

10. Each of the girls did her homework.
September 26, 2011
Directions: Write the sentence on your paper in ink. Label the parts of the sentence. Subject(s), verb(s), compliment(s), phrase(s), clause(s) and sentence type.
Each of the girls did her homework.

11. Answers: Each: Subject Of the girls: Prepositional phrase – adj.
Did: action verb
Her: personal pronoun
Homework: direct object