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Daily Grammar Practice (DGP)
Sentence List
Monday: Write out this week’s sentence using correct capitalization and
punctuation (end punctuation, commas, apostrophes, underlining, and
quotation marks).
Identify the following:
- Clauses (independent or dependent)
- Sentence type (simple, compound, or complex)
- Sentence purpose (declarative, imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory)
Tuesday: Write out this week’s sentence and identify each noun (type),
pronoun (type and case), verb (type), adverb, adjective, article, conjunction,
preposition, and interjection.
Wednesday: Write out this week’s sentence and identify each prepositional
phrases, the simple and complete subject, and the complete predicate. Then
identify the tense of the simple predicate.
Thursday: Write out this week’s sentence and identify sentence type, purpose,
punctuation, capitalization, parts of speech, and sentence parts. Then fill in the
sentence diagram.
Friday: DGP Test
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dust cover a butterflys wings
the dust particles are actually tiny scales
the scales strengthen the wings the teacher told us
don’t touch the colorful wings
i read the history of the olympics on tuesday
the modern olympic games began in greece in 1869
did any women participate in the first year
today men and women compete and win in the
olympics
the brave pioneers traveled the oregan trail in wagons
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the iron wheels on the wagons made grooves in the
hard ground
dad and i will never travel in a tiny wagon mom
announced loudly
astronomers are working at the national radio
astronomy observatory
we will visit this observatory for ourselves in west virginia
on july 17 2010
the observatory houses eight telescopes that observe
the planets stars and galaxies
wow the observatorys green bank telescope is
gigantic
mary mcleod Bethune was born in mayesville south
carolina in 1875
mary not only picked cotton but she also went to
school
education should be very important to everyone said
mary
she eventually opened bethune-cookman college in
florida
e b white was born in new York but he later lived in
maine
i am reading charlottes web which is whites most
famous book
shall we read your favorite e b white book my
grandma asked me
oceans cover almost three-fourths of the earths
surface
oceanographers found canyons islands and
mountains under the water
watch out for the small poisonous gila monster while
you are hiking
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its home is in the deserts of southwestern united states
it’s a night hunter and it can live for long time without
food
dr naismith was teaching at the international ymca
school in Massachusetts when he invented basketball
i invented the game of basketball in 1891 james
naismith stated
he first used two peach baskets and a soccer ball for
the game
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Clauses
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Each clause must have a subject and a verb
o independent clause (ind cl): expresses one complete thought
o dependent clause (dep cl): cannot stand alone as a complete sentence
because it does not express a complete thought
Sentence Parts
- Subject = The subject of a sentence is the person or thing doing the action or
being described
- Simple subject = a single word which is the subject of a verb
- Predicate = the part of a sentence (or clause) which tells us what the subject
does or is. The predicate is everything that is not the subject.
- Simple Predicate = a single verb or verb phrase
Sentence Types
- simple sentence (ss) = one independent clause (a complete thought)
- compound sentence (cd) = two or more independent clauses
- complex sentence (cx) = one independent clause and one or more dependent
clause
Sentence Purpose
declarative sentence – makes a statement and ends in a period
interrogative sentence – asks a question and ends in a question mark
imperative sentence – gives a command and ends in a period
exclamatory sentence – expresses strong feeling and ends in an exclamation point
A declarative, interrogative, or imperative sentence can be exclamatory if it
expresses strong feelings and ends in an exclamation point.
Common noun – names a general noun (person, place, thing, idea)
Proper noun – names a specific nous
Possessive noun – show ownership (girl’s, Blake’s)
Pronoun – takes the place of a noun
- singular nominative: I, you, he, she, it
- plural nominative: we, you, they
- singular objective: me you, him, her, it
- plural objective: us, you, them
- singular possessive: my, your, his, her, its, mine, yours
- plural possessive: our, your, their, ours, yours, theirs
Verb
- action verb: shows action (She wrote a note.)
- linking verb: links to words together (English is fun).
- helping verb: “helps” an action verb or a linking verb (We have been taking
notes).
Adverb
- modifies adjectives (really cute), verbs (run quickly), and other adverbs (very
easily)
- tells How? When? Where? To what extent?
- Not / Never are always adverbs
Adjective
- Modifies nouns
- Tells which one? How many? What kind?
Articles – a, an, the
Proper Adjectives: proper noun used as an adjective (American flag)
Conjunction – for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so (coordinating conjunctions)
Preposition / Prepositional phrase - placed before a noun to show that noun's
relationship to something else in the sentence (The mouse is on the table.)
Interjection – expresses an emotion; set apart from a sentence by a comma or
exclamation point (Wow!)