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MYP Honors English 1B: DGP Sentence 5
Notes and Word Bank
Sentence: he pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the
adventure of washing it
Monday-Punctuation and Capitalization
Notes
 A sentence must begin with a capital letter and end with some type of punctuation.
 Declarative sentences end with periods.
Word Bank
 1 Capital Letter
 1 Period
Tuesday-Parts of Speech
Notes
Noun
 A person, place, thing, or idea
Pronoun
 A word that replaces a noun
Verb
 A word that shows action (action verb)
o Example: She wrote a card.
 A word that helps link a noun or pronoun to an adjective (linking verb)
o Example: English is exciting. The flower smells pretty.
 A word that “helps” an action verb or linking verb (helping verb)
o Example: We have been taking notes all day. She will be cold today.
Article
 Modifies a noun using a, an, or the
Preposition
 Shows a relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence
Conjunction
 Joins two clauses
 Different types:
o Coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS)
o Subordinating conjunctions (aka subordinators): starts adverbial
dependent clauses and therefore must be followed by a subject and
verb. (after, since, before, while, because, although, so that, if, when,
whenever, as, even though, until, unless, as if, etc.)
Participle
 A type of adjective
 Looks like a verb (ends in –ed, -ing, -en) but describes a noun
 Examples:
o She is a running fanatic.
o The ruined carpet cost them a lot of money to replace.
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)
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2 prepositions (prep)
1 adverb (adv)
1 adjective (adj)
Wednesday-Sentence Parts and Phrases
Notes
Subject
 The “who” or “what” of the verb
Predicate
 What the subject is doing or being (the verb and its modifiers)
Prepositional Phrase
 Begins with the preposition
 Ends with object of the preposition
Object of the Preposition  The final word in a prepositional phrase (a noun or pronoun)
 It will NEVER be the subject of the sentence
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”)
Thursday-Clauses and Sentence Types
Notes
Independent Clause
Dependent Clause
Simple Sentence
Compound Sentence
Complex Sentence
Compound-Complex
Sentence
Interrogative Sentence
Declarative Sentence
Imperative Sentence
Exclamatory Sentence
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Contains a subject and a verb
Can stand on its own
Begins with a subordinating conjunction/subordinator
Has a subject or a verb/predicate
One independent clause
Two or more independent clauses
Contains one or more dependent clauses and one independent clause
Contains one or more dependent clauses and two or more independent
clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction + comma, or a semicolon
Asks a question and ends in a question mark
Declares a statement
Gives a command
Exclaims an idea with a lot of emotion
Word Bank
 1 Independent Clause (put in brackets and label “IC”)
 1 Dependent Clause (underline and label “DC”)
 Sentence Type (choose 1)
o Simple (s), Compound (cd), Complex (cx), Compound-Complex (cd-cx)
 Sentence Purpose (choose 1)
o Interrogative (int), Imperative (imp), Declarative (dec), Exclamatory (exc)
Friday-Quiz
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