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Period
Daily Grammar Practice
WEEK # SIX
MONDAY: Identify each word’s PART OF SPEECH. Noun (common, proper, possessive);
Pronoun (type: personal [1st, 2nd , 3rd person], reflexive, relative, interrogative, demonstrative,
indefinite); Adverb; Adjective; Preposition; Conjunction (coordinating, subordinating, correlative);
Verb (type: action, linking, helping; tense: part, present, future, past perfect, present perfect, future
perfect); Verbal (gerund, participle, infinitive)
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TUESDAY: Identify the SENTENCE PARTS AND PHRASES. Subject; Verb (transitive,
intransitive);Complement (direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, predicate adjective);
Phrases (appositive/appositive phrase; adv or adj prepositional phrase, object of the preposition;
infinitive phrase, object of the infinitive, subject of the infinitive; participle phrase, object of the
participle; gerund phrase, object of the gerund; object complement)
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WEDNESDAY: identify CLAUSES AND SENTENCE TYPE.
Clauses (Independent—there must always be an independent clause; Dependent—adv, adj, noun);
Sentence Type (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)
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Name:
Period
Daily Grammar Practice
WEEK # SIX
THURSDAY: add PUNCTUATION AND CAPITALIZATION Semicolon, colon, apostrophe,
underlining, quotation marks, hyphen, dash, comma
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FRIDAY: That vs. Which & That vs. Who
1. Read pages 42-44 of chapter 1 from Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing.
2. Correctly choose the appropriate words below.
3. Explain why your choice is correct and the other choice is incorrect.
A. Shield Sheafson, that/who/which is the original wrecker of mead-benches, is the scourge of his
foes. He scathingly scourges silly men that/who/which oppose his righteous will. Shield
offers these foes no amnesty, that/which would give them license to flout his authority.
• Explanations:
B. “The Seafarer,” that/which we read in this class, is elegiac and, therefore, extremely gloomy.
Poems that/which are elegiac can also be called sepulchral. The poets that/who/which wrote
these poems consider God’s will to be axiomatic, or self-evident.
• Explanations:
C. Beowulf’s greatness, that/which is blazoned far and wide across the whale-road, is partially
based upon the precepts of the Anglo-Saxon heroic code. People that/who/which kill beastly,
unwieldy demons are often considered heroes. The awesome battles that/which heroes and
monsters have are rarely vapid or soporific. On the contrary, they are often thrilling and
gruesome.
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