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DAILY GRAMMAR
PRACTICE
(DGP)
MYP Honors English 1B
Sentence 5
DGP - TUESDAY
Capitalization & Punctuation
and
Parts of Speech
CORRECT ANSWER
He pulled distastefully at
his grey shirt and wondered
whether he might undertake
the adventure of washing it.
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capital “H”
 period after “it”
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SENTENCE
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He pulled distastefully at his grey
shirt and wondered whether he
might undertake the adventure of
washing it.
Word Bank:
4 pronouns (pro)
5 verbs (av/past or av/pres or lv or hv)
1 article (art)
2 nouns (n)
2 conjunctions (cc or sc)
2 prepositions (prep)
1 adverb (adv)
1 adjective (adj)
CORRECT ANSWER
He
pulled distastefully at his
grey shirt and wondered
whether he might undertake
the adventure of washing it.
He; his; he; it = pronouns (pro)
 pulled; wondered; might undertake; washing =
verbs (hv + av/past; av/past)
 the = article (art)
 shirt; adventure = nouns (n)
 and; whether = conjunctions (cc, sc)
 at; of = prepositions (prep)
 distastefully = adverb (adv)
 grey = adjective (adj)
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REFLECTION
 Please take a minute to write a
reflection of what you learned
today in the appropriate section
of your DGP weekly worksheet.
DGP - WEDNESDAY
Sentence Parts
and Phrases
SENTENCE
He pulled distastefully at his grey
shirt and wondered whether he
might undertake the adventure of
washing it.
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Word Bank:
2 Subjects (underline and label with “S”)
 2 Predicates (double-underline and label with “P”) –
one is a compound predicate; one is simple
 2 Prepositional Phrases (put in parentheses and label
with “prep ph”)
 2 Objects of the Preposition (label with “obj prep”)
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CORRECT ANSWER
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He pulled distastefully at his grey
shirt and wondered whether he
might undertake the adventure of
washing it.
He; he = subject (the “who” or “what” of the verb)
 pulled and wondered; might undertake =
predicate (what the subject is doing or being; the
verb and its modifiers)
 at his grey shirt; of washing it = prepositional
phrases (group of words beginning with a
pronoun and ending with a noun or pronoun)
 shirt; it = object of the preposition (follows
preposition and tells “what?” or “whom?”)
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DGP - THURSDAY
Clauses and
Sentence Types
SENTENCE
He pulled distastefully at his
grey shirt and wondered
whether he might undertake
the adventure of washing it.
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Word Bank:
1 independent clause (put in brackets & label “IC”)
1 dependent clause (underline & label “DC”)
sentence type (choose 1)
• simple, compound, complex, compound-complex
sentence purpose (choose 1)
• interrogative, imperative, declarative, exclamatory
CORRECT ANSWER
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He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt
and wondered whether he might
undertake the adventure of washing it.
He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and
wondered = independent clause (contains a subject
and a verb; can stand on its own)
whether he might undertake the adventure of
washing it = dependent clause (does not express a
complete thought--cannot stand on its own)
Sentence type = complex (contains one dependent
clause & one independent clause)
Sentence purpose = declarative (makes a
statement)
DGP – FRIDAY
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