Daily Grammar Practice Instruction Summary

Every week students will analyze a new sentence to learn the principles of grammar and mechanics. The sentences are in the daily grammar packet and will be posted here each week. Before coming to class, the students are expected to accomplish a task using the sentence assigned for the week. The tasks are:

Monday- find the part of speech for each word in the sentence

Tuesday-identify the parts of the sentence

Wednesday-identify clauses and the type of sentence

Thursday-capitalization and punctuation

Friday-diagram the sentence

Sentences will be checked daily and points will be given according to the number of tasks completed each week.

DGP Help Notes

WEEKLY SENTENCES

Sentence 1: many students work on the star our school newspaper

Sentence 2: someones copy of ethan frome a novel was found in the room but my copy of the play our town is missing

Sentence 3: standing on a ladder i slipped and broke a window

Sentence 4: both breck and jolie drove their cars for a long time and then found themselves in arkansas

Sentence 5: the four men worked hard to finish the job their boss gave them a large bonus

Sentence 6: mahua enjoys flying kites so we bought her a new ball of string

Sentence 7: the southside baptist church sponsored a  festival my mother bought some french pastries there

Sentence 8: yes wally was eager to prove that his dog blue was different from the other hunting dogs

Sentence 9: i must have drunk four cups of cocoa because i was frozen from skating on lake kenton

Sentence 10: sawyer can you lend larry and me that literary cavalcade magazine or does your group need it to finish the assignment

Sentence 11: while we were diving on the brewton highway we saw a burning garage with several cars in it

Sentence 12: my uncle from pittsburgh pennsylvania recently bought a boat which he will keep on our lake

Sentence 13: she should have thrown out those magazines dated before may 29 1968 because not one of them is useful

Sentence 14: in the novel a tale of two cities there is a character named dr mannet who has a pretty daughter

Sentence 15: i like the fact that anne sexton uses descriptive and shocking language in her poem courage.

Sentence 16: does rebekka like reading novels writing poetry and diagramming sentences

Sentence 17: my friend alexis watched friends on thursday and said it wasnt very funny

Sentence 18: after we read the play the taming of the shrew mrs basu showed us the movie

Sentence 19: alfonso my mothers cousin bought new running shoes since he enjoys running 

Sentence 20: hey who wants to sign up to see stefanos band in concert

Sentence 21: the guy who sits behind marsha likes to play the drums on his desk during class

Sentence 22: jack who rides the bus to school on fridays has the best grade in latin

Sentence 23: pauls friend moved here from manteca california on january 22 1999 but now his family is moving again.

Sentence 24: neither of the girls remembered to do her dgp therefore they were confused about grammar

Sentence 25: the story that franklin read was sad it was about a little bird that broke its wing

Sentence 26: ethels friend kaitlyn likes to babysit so that she can play with the childrens toys

Sentence 27: andre take your wrinkled shirt to your neighbors house because the neighbor has a nice new iron

Sentence 28: in william shakespeares play julius caesar brutus joins the conspiracy to assassinate caesar but he doesnt think that killing marc antony is necessary

Sentence 29: three pigs from that story with the wolf were in the news yesterday after a girl with a riding hood filed a complaint against the wolf

Sentence 30: mrs ginsburg our teacher has told us that this is our last sentence of the year but it is a pretty tricky one

Daily Grammar Practice (DGP) is a grammar instruction program developed by Dawn Burnette of DGP Publishing. This information is posted for use by Mrs. Lallatin's English classes.