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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