DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE

(DGP)

MYP Honors English 2B

Sentence 9

DGP - MONDAY

Punctuation & Capitalization

SENTENCEhe found that a travelers life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments

Word Bank: 1 capital letter1 apostrophe1 period

CORRECT ANSWER

He found that a traveler’s life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments.

Word Bank: 1 capital letter – beginning of the sentence 1 apostrophe – possessive noun 1 period – declarative sentences require periods at the end

DGP - TUESDAY

Parts of Speech

SENTENCE He found that a traveler’s life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments.

Word Bank: 4 nouns (n) 3 verbs (hv or lv or av and past or pres) 5 pronouns (pro) 1 article (art) 1 preposition (prep) 1 adjective (adj)

CORRECT ANSWERHe found that a traveler’s life is one

that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments.

traveler’s; life; pain; enjoyments = nouns found; is; includes = verbs he; that; one; that; its = pronouns a = article amidst = preposition much = adjective

DGP - WEDNESDAY

Sentence Partsand Phrases

SENTENCEHe found that a traveler’s life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments.

Word Bank: 3 subjects (underline and label with “S”) 3 predicates (double-underline and label with

“P”) 1 Prepositional Phrase (put in parentheses and

label with “prep ph”) 1 Object of the Preposition (label with “obj prep”) 2 Direct Objects (label with “DO”)

CORRECT ANSWERHe found that a traveler’s life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments.

he; life; that = subjects found; is; includes = predicates amidst its enjoyments = prep. phrase

enjoyments = object of the preposition

that a traveler’s life is one; pain = direct objects

DGP - THURSDAY

Clauses, Sentence Types, & Sentence Purposes

SENTENCEHe found that a traveler’s life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments.

Word Bank: • 1 independent clause (put in brackets & label “IC”)• 2 dependent clauses (put in brackets & label “DC”)• sentence type (choose 1)

• simple, compound, complex, compound-complex• sentence purpose (choose 1)

• interrogative, imperative, declarative, exclamatory

CORRECT ANSWERHe found that a traveler’s life is one that

includes much pain amidst its enjoyments.

He found that a traveler’s life is one = independent clause

that a traveler’s life is one; that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments = dependent clauses

Complex = sentence type (one independent clause + one or more dependent clauses)

Declarative = sentence purpose (makes a statement)