1. Daily Grammar Practice (DGP)
MYP Honors English 2B
Sentence 5

2. Punctuation & Capitalization and Parts of Speech
DGP - Tuesday
Punctuation & Capitalization
and
Parts of Speech

3. Punctuation & Capitalization Correct Answer
Could I enter into a festival with this deadly weight yet hanging round my neck and bowing me to the ground?
capital “C”
capital “I”
question mark after “ground”

4. Sentence
Could I enter into a festival with this deadly weight yet hanging round my neck and bowing me to the ground?
Word Bank:
4 nouns (n)
2 verbs (hv or lv or av/past or av/pres)
4 pronouns (pro)
2 articles (art)
4 prepositions (prep)
1 adjective (adj)
1 adverb (adv)
2 participles (part)
1 coordinating conjunction (cc)

5. Parts of Speech Correct Answer
Could I enter into a festival with this deadly weight yet hanging round my neck and bowing me to the ground?
festival; weight; neck; ground = nouns (n)
could; enter = verbs (hv; av/past)
I; my; me; this = pronouns (pro)
a; the = articles (art)
into; with; round; to = prepositions (prep)
deadly = adjective
yet = adverb (adv)
extraordinary = adjective (adj)

6. Reflection
Please take a minute to write a reflection of what you learned today in the appropriate section of your DGP weekly worksheet.

7. Sentence Parts and Phrases
DGP - Wednesday
Sentence Parts
and Phrases

8. Sentence
“Well, this is the most extraordinary thing that I ever knew!” exclaimed the Laird.
Word Bank:
2 subjects (underline and label with S)
2 predicates (double-underline and label with P)

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

10. Correct Answer
“Well, this is the most extraordinary thing that I ever knew!” exclaimed the Laird.
this; I = subjects (the “who” or “what” of the verb)
is the most extraordinary thing; knew = predicates (what the subject is doing or being; the verb and its modifiers)

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. Clauses and Sentence Types
DGP - Thursday
Clauses and
Sentence Types

13. Sentence
“Well, this is the most extraordinary thing that I ever knew!” exclaimed the Laird.
Word Bank:
1 independent clause (put in brackets & label “IC”)
1 dependent clause (put in parentheses & label “DC”)
sentence type (choose 1)
simple, compound, complex, compound-complex
sentence purpose (choose 1)
interrogative, imperative, declarative, exclamatory

14. Compare
Compare your answers to your neighbor’s answers to see if you identified the same dependent clause.
“I labeled ________as the dependent clause because _____________________________.”

15. Correct Answer
“Well, this is the most extraordinary thing that I ever knew!” exclaimed the Laird.
this is the most extraordinary thing = independent clause (contains a subject and a verb; can stand on its own)
that I ever knew = dependent clause (cannot stand on its own)
Sentence type = complex (two independent clauses)
Sentence purpose = exclamatory (gives a command and ends in a period)

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. DGP – Friday
Weekly Quiz!