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)
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