Journal #9B
Grade 11
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DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE
Punctuation and Capitalization: Correct the errors. Add a
coordinating conjunction. Circle the conjunction you use.
The Southside Baptist Church sponsored a festival, and my
mother bought some French pastries there.
Skill/Notes: Coordinating conjunctions are and, but, for, so, or,
yet. They require a comma before usage.
Parts of Speech: Correct the errors and label each word as a
part of speech. Add a semi-colon.
Adj. Proper Noun
Verb
Adj. N Adj. N.
The Southside Baptist Church sponsored a festival; my mother
V.
Adj. Proper Adj. N. Adv.
bought some French pastries there.
Skill/Notes: Semi-colons join together independent clauses; this
makes compound sentences.
Parts of Sentence: Correct the errors and label the subject
and predicate. Add a subordinating conjunction.
SUBJECT
PREDICATE
Since The Southside Baptist Church sponsored a festival, my
SUBJECT
PREDICATE
mother bought some French pastries there.
Skill/Notes: Subordinating conjunctions join together two ideas
making one idea dependent (subordinate) on the other.
Clauses and Sentence Type: Correct the errors and label the
clauses and sentence type. Use a period to separate the two
clauses.
independent clause
independent
The Southside Baptist Church sponsored a festival. My mother
clause
bought some French pastries there.
SAT QUESTION OF THE DAY
Define the following:
Our mood swings about the economy grow more extreme:
when things go well, we become _____; when things go poorly,
____ descends.
a. restive…anxiety
b. euphoric…gloom
c. prudent…benevolence
d. ascetic…misery
e. ambivalence…optimism
Define the following:
levity-humor; cheerfulness
anarchy-chaos; disorder
According to Lionel Trilling, the paradox of liberalism is that in
its quest for freedom it must move toward greater organization,
stricter legislation, and increasing______.
a. anarchy (chaos)
paradox can be closely
b. self-realization (awareness)
related to irony or
c. stagnation (no change)
d. control
contradiction
e. levity (humor)
Left to endure a penniless old age, the ____ man lived to regret
his _____ youth. Many negative words…
a. miserly…friendless
b. reclusive…affable
c. eccentric…fleeting
d. egotistical…frugal
e. improvident…prodigal
Skill/Notes: Independent clauses are sentences that can stand
by themselves. They have a subject and a verb. Both are simple
sentences.
Clauses and Sentence Type: Identify a sentence in The Great
Gatsby that utilizes one of the examples above. Copy it,
quote it, cite it. Which type did you find?
S. V.
V.
Coord. Conj.
S.
V.
―She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from
sub. conj. S.
VP
her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in
one of those breathless, thrilling words‖ (Fitzgerald 19).
type: compound-complex sentence
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE (HW)
Abandoning the moral principles of his youth, the aging
emperor Tiberius led a _____ wanton (immoral) life.
a. celibate
b. rudimentary (basic)
c. debauched (wicked)
d. circumspect (cautious)
e. peripatetic (roaming)
restive-restless
euphoric-joyful
prudent-sensible
ascetic-thrifty
ambivalence-indecisive
Give three (3) examples of a
subordinate conjunction.
1.after
2.even though
3.wherever
Define the following:
affable- friendly
fleeting-short-lived
frugal-thrifty
egotistical-self-centered
improvident-reckless; careless
Define the following:
simple sentence –
one independent clause
compound sentence –
two or more independent clauses
joined by a conjunction
complex sentence –
one independent clause and one or
more dependent clause
compound-complex sentence –
two or more independent clauses and
one dependent clause
In this survey of Revolutionary America, the author finds a
remarkable homogeneity of opinion from Massachusetts to
Georgia; the differences between the sections are______,
almost always explainable by differences in climate or
topography.
a. sharp
b. nonexistent
c. irreconcilable
d. superficial
e. enormous
Enjoy your weekend! 
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DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE
Punctuation and Capitalization: Correct the errors. Add a
coordinating conjunction. Circle the conjunction you use.
Wally was eager, and he wanted to prove that his dog blue was
different from the other hunting dogs.
Skill/Notes: Coordinating conjunction usage depends on what is
being said in the sentence. It must make sense.
Parts of Speech: Correct the errors and label each word as a
part of speech. Add a semi-colon.
N V ADJ PRO V
INF (N) PRO ADJ N ADJ V
Wally was eager; he wanted to prove that his dog blue was
ADJ
PREP ADJ ADJ
ADJ N
different from the other hunting dogs.
Skill/Notes: Infinitives (INF) always begin with the word to and
are followed by a verb. Infinitives are used as nouns, adj. or adv.
Parts of Sentence: Correct the errors and label the subject
and predicate. Add a subordinating conjunction.
sub
pred
s pred
sub
Wally was eager; therefore, he wanted to prove that his dog
pred
blue was different from the other hunting dogs.
Skill/Notes: Subordinating conjunctions require semi-colon
before usage and a comma after. The word following should
always be lowercase unless it is a proper noun.
Clauses and Sentence Type: Correct the errors and label the
clauses and sentence type. Use a period to separate the two
clauses.
ind (main) clause
ind clause
signal
subordinate
Wally was eager. He wanted to prove that his dog blue was
clause
different from the other hunting dogs.
Skill/Notes: Compound-complex sentence: 2 independent
clauses and one subordinate (dependent) clause
Reflection
What was made clear to you about grammar over the course
of the last two weeks? (2-Sentence Minimum)
SAT QUESTION OF THE DAY
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE (HW)
Although a few of her contemporaries _____ her book,
most either ignored it or mocked it. Must be a
contrasting word.
a. dismissed
b. disregarded
c. deprecated
d. misconstrued
e. appreciated
All critics have agreed that the opera’s score is ____, but,
curiously, no two critics have agreed which passages to
praise and which to damn.
a. intolerable
b. melodious
c. unsurpassed
d. conventional
e. uneven
Define the following:
A man incapable of ______ action, he never had an
opinion about something that he had not worked up
beforehand, fashioning it with lengthy care.
a. premeditated (planned-negative tone)
b. coherent (understood)
c. spontaneous (impulsive-matches tone)
d. calculated (planned-negative tone)
e. self-conscious (awkward-doesn’t fit sentence)
Give an example of a
compound-complex sentence.
SIGNAL S V
Although I like to go camping,
S
VP
I haven't had the time to go
CONJ S
VP
lately, and I haven't found
anyone to go with.
Even as the local climate changed from humid to arid
and back—a change that caused other animals to
become extinct—our almost-human ancestors _____ by
learning how to use the new flora.
a. anticipated (predicted)
b. survived
c. diverged (departed)
d. deteriorated (declined)
e. migrated (moved)
What was the most difficult part about the SAT questions?
(2-Sentence Minimum)
melodious – musical
unsurpassed – incomparable
conventional –usual
What type of punctuation does
a subordinating conjunction
require?
semi-colon before and comma
after it
Give an example.
; therefore, ;consequently,
Study, study, study! 
How well did you know the
grammar covered? (1=low;
10=high)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 9 10
Why?