DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE

(DGP)

MYP Honors English 1B

Sentence 9

DGP – MONDAY

Punctuation & Capitalization

SENTENCE sally marsh a resident of denver colorado was among the first of those who voted for president obama

Word Bank: 6 Capital Letters 3 Commas 1 Period

CORRECT ANSWER Sally Marsh, a resident of Denver, Colorado, was among the first of those who voted for President Obama.

Changes: 6 Capital Letters: S, M, D, C, P, O = proper nouns 3 Commas: #1, 3 = separates appositive phrase from

independent clause; #2 = separates city and state 1 Period: declarative sentences end with a period.

DGP – TUESDAY

Parts of Speech

SENTENCE Sally Marsh, a resident of Denver, Colorado, was among the first of those who voted for President Obama.

Word Bank: 5 Nouns (n) 2 Articles (art) 4 Prepositions (prep) 2 Verbs (av or lv or hv; past or pres or fut) 2 Pronouns (pro)

CORRECT ANSWER Sally Marsh, a resident of Denver, Colorado, was among the first of those who voted for President Obama.

Sally Marsh; resident; Denver, Colorado; first; President Obama = nouns (n)

a; the = articles (art) of; among; of; for = prepositions (prep)was; voted = verbs (av/past; hv/past +

av/past)those; who = pronouns (pro)

DGP - WEDNESDAY

Sentence Partsand Phrases

SENTENCE Sally Marsh, a resident of Denver, Colorado, was among the first of those who voted for President Obama.

Word Bank: 2 Subjects (underline and label with “S”) 2 Predicates (double-underline and label with “P”) 4 Prepositional Phrases (put in parentheses and label

with “prep ph”) 4 Objects of the Preposition (label with “obj prep”) 1 Appositive Phrase (put in brackets, label with “app ph”)

CORRECT ANSWER Sally Marsh, a resident of Denver, Colorado, was among the first of those who voted for President Obama.

Sally Marsh; who = subjects was; voted = predicates of Denver, Colorado; among the first; of those;

for President Obama = prepositional phrases Denver, Colorado; first; those; President Obama

= objects of preposition a resident of Denver, Colorado = appositive

phrase

DGP - THURSDAY

Clauses, Sentence Types, &Sentence Purposes

SENTENCE Sally Marsh, a resident of Denver, Colorado, was among the first of those who voted for President Obama.

Word Bank: o 1 independent clause (put in brackets & label “IC”)o 1 dependent clause (put in brackets and label “DC”)o sentence type (choose 1)• simple, compound, complex, compound-complex

o sentence purpose (choose 1)• interrogative, imperative, declarative, exclamatory

CORRECT ANSWER Sally Marsh, a resident of Denver, Colorado, was among the first of those who voted for President Obama.

Sally Marsh was among the first of those = independent clause

who voted for President Obama = dependent clause

complex = sentence type (one independent + one dependent clause)

declarative = sentence purpose (makes a statement)