1. Daily Grammar Warm-Up 10 1/20/10-1/28/10

2. Wednesday 1/20/10: Complex Sentences We have covered subjects and clauses in the last couple of DGWU’s. Now it is time to move to something more complex! Turn to page 145 for review! Complete exercise 3, #’s 1-5.

3. Thursday 1/21/10: Compound Sentences Turn to page 142 to brush on the compound sentence. Now practice with Exercise 2 on page 144. Finish #’s 1-5. How did you do?

4. Tuesday 1/26/10: Compound-Complex We have now gone over both the complex and the compound sentence. It is time to combine that info into the last of our sentence structures. Turn to page 147 for the definition and examples. Complete: Exercise 4, page 148 #’s 1-5

5. Wednesday 1/27/10: Sentence Structure Yes you are finally ready for me to stop talking about sentence structure! (at least for a little while) Please remember to identify the subjects and the verbs of each clause before you start GUESSING answers. There is no reason that you need to be guessing anything! Turn to page 149 and complete Review A, #’s 1- 10. You do not need to write the complete sentence.

6. Thursday 1/28/10: Dangling Modifiers Today we are going to address standard 39. A modifier is a word or group of words that makes the meaning of another word more specific. When a sentence contains a misplaced or dangling modifier the meaning of the sentence changes. Example: Last night, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. Turn to page 237 and correct sentences 16-20.

7. Tuesday 2/2/10: Participles How did you do with question 38? Each month question 38 deals with infinitives and participles. Before you can answer that question correctly it is important that you know what infinitives and participles are. We are going to start with the participle. Turn to page 101 for the definition. Complete #’s 1-5 of Exercise 4 on page 102,