Daily Grammar Week _______ Adapted from Dawn Burnetts Daily Grammar Practice

Name ___________________________________ # _______ Date ________________

Monday: Analyze this weeks sentence and identify each common noun, proper noun,
possessive noun, subject pronoun, object pronoun, possessive pronoun, adjective, conjunction,
and interjection.

Jaime thought a minute before answering, Well, lets say a prayer in that little room of the Middle
Ages.

(From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L.Konigsburg page 90)

Tuesday: Analyze this weeks sentence and identify each verb and adverb. Then identify the
tense of each verb.

Jaime thought a minute before answering, Well, lets say a prayer in that little room of the Middle
Ages.

(From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L.Konigsburg page 90)

Wednesday: Analyze this weeks sentence and identify the simple and complete subject, the
simple and complete predicate, preposition, & object of the preposition.

Jaime thought a minute before answering, Well, lets say a prayer in that little room of the Middle
Ages.

(From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L.Konigsburg page 90)

Thursday: Analyze this weeks sentence and identify the articles, the sentence type as simple,
complex, or compound and the sentence purpose as: declarative, imperative, interrogative, or
exclamatory.

Jaime thought a minute before answering, Well, lets say a prayer in that little room of the Middle
Ages.

(From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L.Konigsburg page 90)

Friday: Analyze this weeks sentence using correct capitalization and punctuation including end
punctuation, commas, semi-colon, colon, apostrophes, hyphens, underlining, and quotation
marks.

jaime thought a minute before answering well lets say a prayer in that little room of the middle
ages

(From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L.Konigsburg page 90)
 Adjectives Interjections Conjunctions Common Nouns Proper Nouns
Modify nouns and !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F for Not specific NAMES of specific
pronouns and Wow! A and Persons Persons
answer: Hey! N nor Places Places
What kind? Ouch! B but Things Things
Which one? Yea! O or NOT
How many? Y yet CAPITALIZED CAPITALIZED
S - so

Possessive Nouns Subject Pronouns Object Pronouns Possessive Verbs

Pronouns An Action
Singular s I We Me Us Mine Ours Ask yourself:
Plural s You You Yours Can you do it??
He/She They Him/Her Them His/Hers Theirs Or
It Its State of Being:
am, are, is, was,
were

Adverbs Verb Tense Simple Complete Preposition

Modify verbs, Present Subject/Predicate Subject/Predicate A connecting word
adjectives, and other The entire part of the showing the
adverbs and answer: Past - ed Only One Subject sentence that relation of a noun or
How? contains the subject a pronoun to some
When? Future - will Only One Verb Or other word:
Where? The entire part of the with at
sentence that by to
contains the verb in for
from of
on about
And more.
Object of the Sentences Type & Simple Sentence Complex Sentence Compound
Preposition End Punctuation 1 sentence Sentence
Prepositional Declarative 1 sentence = (sub + verb) + 1 sentence
phrases begin with a Statement (.) Subject + Verb FANBOY + (sub + verb)
preposition and end Imperative Fragment = , comma + FANBOY
with a Command (.) Complex +
noun/pronoun. Interrogative 1 =1 1 sentence
The noun/pronoun Question (?) 1+=1 (sub + verb)
at the end is the Exclamatory With =
object of the Strong Feeling (!) Compound
preposition.
1 + 1= 2
Capitalization Underline, Commas, Apostrophes Quotation Marks
Capitalize: Hyphens Semicolon, Colon Use apostrophes in Use quotation
Proper Nouns, Underline the titles Use commas in a the place of letters to marks to show
Titles, of books series, to separate shorten a word, or to conversation.
Directions, independent clauses show possession.
First word of a Use hyphens with in a sentence, with
sentence. numbers dates, in numbers, to Contractions/
set off names, and Possessives
before a quotation.