Grammar Workout Deepening Understanding LTD 2019 What a

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What a beautiful day! The sun is beaming down on the sandy beach. 1. Identify an exclamation. 2. Identify part of the sentence in the present progressive tense. 3. Re-write in the past progressive tense. 4. Identify the expanded noun phrase. 5. What word class is beaming? Monday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2019

Furiously the wind howled through the towering trees as I began to shake. 1. Identify the conjunction. Is it coordinating or subordinating? 2. Replace the fronted adverbial with an alternative one. Don’t change the meaning. 3. Identify the preposition. 4. Add a missing comma. Explain its use. 5. Identify the main clause. Tuesday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2019

“I’m excited to play football tonight! Exclaimed Tom, beaming with a smile from ear to ear. 1. Add a missing inverted comma. 2. Identify the adverbial phrase. 3. Write I’m in its expanded form. 4. Identify the speech verb. 5. Write two synonyms of excited. Wednesday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2019

Darcey and Marlon played outside until 9 pm despite Darcey and Marlon needing to get ready for bed. 1. Replace the repeated nouns with a pronoun. 2. Is this sentence in the past or present tense? 3. What word class is ‘played’? 4. Identify the preposition. 5. Identify the subordinate clause. Thursday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2019

On Saturday i purchased a new pencil case three pens and a rubber and I love them! 1. Add two missing commas. 2. Explain the different uses of the commas. 3. Identify a conjunction. 4. Add a missing capital letter. 5. Identify the determiners. Friday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2019