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Daily Grammar Practice
WEEK # ONE
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: past, present, future, past perfect, present perfect, future
perfect); Verbal (gerund, participle, infinitive)
edgar allan poe mournfully laments the loss of his dear wife
virginia in his poem annabel lee
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)
edgar allan poe mournfully laments the loss of his dear wife
virginia in his poem annabel lee
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)
edgar allan poe mournfully laments the loss of his dear wife
virginia in his poem annabel lee
THURSDAY: add PUNCTUATION AND CAPITALIZATION Semicolon, colon, apostrophe,
underlining, quotation marks, hyphen, dash, comma
edgar allan poe mournfully laments the loss of his dear wife
virginia in his poem annabel lee
FOCUS ON AN ISSUE: Affect vs Effect
1. Read pages 8-10 of chapter 1 from Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing.
2. Correctly choose the appropriate word below.
3. Explain why the word you chose is correct and why the other choice is incorrect.
What are the affects/effects of Virginia’s death on Edgar Allan Poe?
Explanation:
Virginia’s death deeply affected/effected Edgar Allan Poe.
Explanation