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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 Week # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Sentence 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 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 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 26 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 27 28 29 30 Clauses - 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!)