DGP for the Week of

February 15 - 19

This week’s sentence:

a frozen jacob sat in frontof the fire where hewaited for his hands towarm.

Day One• a (article)• frozen (participle)• jacob (proper noun)• sat (action verb)• in (preposition)• front (common noun)• of (preposition)• the (article) • fire (common noun)• where (relative pronoun)

• he (subjective pronoun)• waited (action verb)• for (preposition)• his (possessive pronoun)• hands (common noun)• to warm (infinitive)

Day Two

• [a frozen jacob sat in front of the fire]Independent Clause [where he waited for his hands to warm]Dependent Clause• [a frozen jacob sat (in front) (of the fire)]

prep. phrase prep. phrase

[where he waited (for his hands) to warm]prep phrase

Day Three

OP OP[a frozen jacob sat VI (in front) (of the fire)]

prep. phrase prep. Phrase

OP DO[where he waited VT (for his hands) {to warm}]

prep phrase

Day Four

• A frozen Jacob sat in front of the fire where he waited for his hands to warm.

• Proper nouns are always capitalized.• This is a declarative statement, so it should

end in a period.• 1 independent clause + 1 dependent clause =

Complex Sentence

Day Five

Day Five

Jacob sat

Day Five

Jacob sat

frozen

A

Day Five

Jacob sat

frontfire

frozen

A in of

the

Day Five

Jacob sat

frontfire

frozen

A in of

the

where

Day Five

Jacob sat

frontfire

he waited

frozen

A in of

the

where

Day Five

Jacob sat

frontfire

warm

he waited

frozen

A in of

the

where

to

Day Five

Jacob sat

front fire

warm

he waited

hands

frozen

A in of

the

where

to

for

his