DGP: Daily Grammar Practice

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DGP Daily Grammar Practice

• Starting next week we will begin DGP
• When you come in, it will be on the board instead
  of the warm-ups we have been doing
• You will use the same sentence all week, and on
  Friday there will be a quiz

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It will look something like this

• bobby loves language arts
• Monday
• Correct the capitalization and punctuation in
  this sentence.
• On your paper, you will write the sentence
  correctly.

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• Bobby loves language arts.
• Tuesday
• Identify the part of speech for each word in this
  sentence.
• You will use your DGP notes to do this

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• Bobby loves language arts.
• Wednesday
• Identify the subject, predicate, Direct Object,
  Indirect Object, Predicate Noun, Predicate
  Adjectives, Appositives, Prepositional Phrases,
  and Objects of the Preposition.
• We will do these together the first couple of
  weeks. You can use your DGP notes for this.

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• Bobby loves language arts.
• Thursday
• Identify the clauses, sentence type, and
  sentence purpose.
• This is in your notes and we will do it together
  the first couple of weeks.

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Scavenger Hunt use your DGP notes to answer
these questions

1. What is one thing I should put in quotation
   marks?
2. What is a conjunction?
3. Under adjectives, what is an article?
4. List the demonstrative pronouns.
5. List 5 linking verbs.
6. What four questions do adverbs answer?
7. On which days notes would I find comma rules?
8. What is an appositive?

• 9. Give one example of a prepositional phrase.
• 10. What is a clause?
• 11. Name three types of sentences.
• 12. List 7 conjunctions.
• 13. On which day would I find information on the
  apostrophe?
• 14. What is the purpose of an interrogative
  sentence?
• 15. What is an independent clause?