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Daily Grammar Practice
This is going to be our grammar practice each day at the very
beginning of class. I will have a sentence on the board, and you will
work with the same sentence ALL week Mon-Thurs figuring out the
parts of speech, sentence parts, and sentence types. You will have
occasionally take a quiz on Fridays so keep your notes. Each day
you will label a different thing on the sentence.
Monday-label parts of speech
Tuesday-Label sentence parts
Wednesday-Label sentence types
Thursday-Talk about the capitalization and punctuation and review
what we have done for the week
Friday-quiz
The quiz on Friday will consist of a completely new sentence that is in
the same format as the sentence we have worked with all week.
You will have to label EVERYTHING on this sentence.
Daily Grammar Practice Notes
Monday: Parts of Speech
Noun
n or N
A person, place, or thing
Pronoun
pron
Takes the place of a noun
Adverb
adv
Describes verbs and
adjectives and other adverbs
Adjective
adj
Describes nouns and pronouns
Articles
art
Preposition
prep
Are a type of adjective
Shows relationships between a
noun or pronoun and another
word in the sentence
Conjunction
cc or sc
Joins words, phrases, and
clauses
Verb
av or lv or hv
Shows action or helps make a
statement
-Common noun: begins with a lower case
letter
-Proper noun: gives a name of a specific
person, place, or thing
The dog is friendly.
-1st person: I, we
-2nd person: you
-3rd person: she, he, it, they
I brought the friendly dog home.
-normally end in –ly
-not is always an adverb
-tells how, when, where, to what extent
The friendly dog is quickly wagging his tail.
-tells which one, how many, what kind
The friendly dog barked.
-only 3 articles: a, an, the
The friendly dog barked.
Across, after, against, around, at, before, to,
for, by, near, under, until, etc.
Lots of times tells the location of something
The dog ran around the tree.
-Coordinating conjunctions:
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
-Subordinating conjunctions: start dependent
clauses. After, since, before, even though, until,
unless (NOTE: Many prepositions can be
subordinating clauses.)
Since I can’t have a dog in my apartment, I
went to the pet store and the humane society
just to look at them.
-Action: shows action
-Linking: links the subject to a word it is equal to
later in the sentence. Is, be, am, are, was,
were, become, feel, grow, look, smell, etc.
-Helping: “helps” a linking or helping verb do
the action
The dog barked.
Tuesday Notes: Parts of a Sentence
Prepositional Phrase
prep ph
Object of the Preposition
op
Group of words beginning
with the preposition and
ending with a noun or
pronoun
Ends prepositional phrases
-Look for this first to help eliminate
words that can’t be the subject or
direct object
The dog ran around the tree.
--To find it, fill in the blanks…
_________ what?
Preposition
The dog ran around the tree.
Subject
Simple subject- only the
subject
SS
Complete subject-the
subject and everything
about it
CS
Predicate
Simple predicate-only the
verb
SP
Complete predicate-the
verb and everything
about it
CP
Who or what the sentence is
talking about
-must be a noun, pronoun, gerund
-There and here are never subjects
-Can be an “understood you”
when in a command.
The dog barked. SS
The dog barked. CS
What the subject is
doing(verb)
-can be action or linking(don’t
forget about helping verbs)
The dog barked loudly. SP
The dog barked loudly. CP
Wednesday Notes: Clauses and Sentence Types
Independent Clause
ind cl
Dependent Clause
dep cl
Simple Sentence
ss
Compound Sentence
cd
Complex Sentence
cx
-Every complete sentence has at least one independent clause.
-Has at least one subject and one verb
-Doesn’t need any other information to make sense
The dog is my best friend.
-Cannot stand alone
-Needs other clauses in order to make sense
-Can start with a subordinate conjunction
Since the dog is my best friend
-Has only one independent clause
The dog is my best friend.
-Has two or more independent clauses
The dog is my best friend, and I like to play with him.
-Has a combination of independent and dependent clauses
Since the dog is my best friend, I like to play with him.
Thursday: Sentence Correction