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1 1.) Write out the sentence correctly. Add capitalization and punctuation: end marks, commas, semicolons, apostrophes, underlining, and quotation marks 2.)Identify each clause as independent or dependent. If dependent indicate type: adjective or adverb. 3.) Identify the sentence type: simple, compound or complex. 4.) Identify sentence purpose: declarative, imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory we had a small amount of snow during the winter but it rained often during the summer 1

2 Day 2 Correctly write out this week's sentence on every other line. Identify Parts of Speech Write above each word each word's part of speech: noun (common, proper, possessive), pronoun (relative, interrogative, possessive, nominative, objective, demonstrative, indefinite, reflexive), verb (type: helping, linking, action and tense: present, past, past participle), adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction (coordinating, subordinating, correlative), interjection We had a small amount of snow during the winter, but it rained often during the summer. 2

3 Day 3 Correctly write out this week's sentence on every other line. Identify Sentence Parts and Phrases Sentence Parts: complete and simple subjects, complete predicate and simple predicate (simple predicate: transitive or intransitive)compliments: direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, appositive, appositive phrase, (Prepositional Phrases) adjective or adverb we had a small amount of snow during the winter but it rained often during the summer 3

4 Day 4 Diagram this week's sentence. We had a small amount of snow during the winter, but it rained often during the summer. 4

5 Day 1 1.) Write out the sentence correctly. Add capitalization and punctuation: end marks, commas, semicolons, apostrophes, underlining, and quotation marks 2.)Identify each clause as independent or dependent. If dependent indicate type: adjective or adverb. 3.) Identify the sentence type: simple, compound or complex. 4.) Identify sentence purpose: declarative, imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory that is a very loud boat something must be wrong with it 5

6 Day 2 Correctly write out this week's sentence on every other line. Identify Parts of Speech Write above each word each word's part of speech: noun (common, proper, possessive), pronoun (relative, interrogative, possessive, nominative, objective, demonstrative, indefinite, reflexive), verb (type: helping, linking, action and tense: present, past, past participle), adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction (coordinating, subordinating, correlative), interjection That is a very loud boat; something must be wrong with it. 6

7 Day 3 Correctly write out this week's sentence on every other line. Identify Sentence Parts and Phrases Sentence Parts: complete and simple subjects, complete predicate and simple predicate (simple predicate: transitive or intransitive)compliments: direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, appositive, appositive phrase, (Prepositional Phrases) adjective or adverb That is a very loud boat; something must be wrong with it. 7

8 Day 3 Correctly write out this week's sentence on every other line. Identify Sentence Parts and Phrases Sentence Parts: complete and simple subjects, complete predicate and simple predicate (simple predicate: transitive or intransitive)compliments: direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, appositive, appositive phrase, (Prepositional Phrases) adjective or adverb That is a very loud boat; something must be wrong with it. 8

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