48 free grammar resources for Year 6, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
Grammar gives students the tools to write clearly: knowing what a noun or a clause is lets them fix a sentence that doesn't sound right. These worksheets teach one idea at a time with plenty of examples, then ask students to use it in their own writing.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Students sharpen their apostrophe use with the cases that cause the most errors: plurals that do not own anything (no apostrophe), plural…
Students learn that a complex sentence has a main clause that can stand alone and a subordinate clause that cannot, joined by a…
Students learn that a verb must match its subject: a singular subject takes a singular verb (the dog barks) and a plural subject takes a…
Students learn where commas go in longer sentences: after an opening subordinate clause, around extra information (such as 'my aunt, who…
Students learn that a sentence or paragraph about one time should stay in one tense, and that the tense only changes when the time…
Students learn that a preposition links a noun or pronoun to the rest of the sentence, and that a prepositional phrase (such as under the…
Students learn that a relative clause adds information about a noun and starts with a relative pronoun such as who, which or that. They…
Students learn that the continuous tenses show an action that is, was or will be in progress, using a form of be with an -ing verb. They…
Students learn that determiners are the small words before a noun that tell us which one, how many or whose. They choose a or an by the…
Students learn the rules for punctuating direct speech: quotation marks around the spoken words, a capital letter to start the speech, a…
Students learn that starting every sentence the same way makes writing dull, and try out five ways to open a sentence: with an adverb, a…
Choose the collective noun that names a group: a flock of sheep, a swarm of bees, a pod of dolphins, a gaggle of geese and more. Starts…
Use adjectives to compare: add -er and -est, follow the spelling rules, use more and most with long adjectives, and learn good, better,…
Choose the joining word (conjunction) that makes sense: and, but, so, because, or — and, at the advanced level, although, unless, until,…
Join two words into a contraction with an apostrophe, and split contractions back into their two words. Starts with the most common words…
Turn adjectives into adverbs that describe how something is done: add -ly, change y to i (happily), -le to -ly (gently), and learn good →…
Change verbs into the past tense: add -ed, drop the e, double the last letter, change y to i, and learn the irregular past tense verbs.…
Write the plural of each noun using the spelling rules (-s, -es, -ies, -ves) and learn the irregular plurals. Starts with the most common…
Use an apostrophe to show who owns something: 's for one owner, s' for more than one, and 's for plurals like children's. Starts with the…
Choose the pronoun that can replace the words in bold: he, she, it, they, we for the subject and him, her, it, them, us for the object.…
Choose the verb that agrees with the subject: is or are, was or were, has or have, and tricky subjects like 'the box of pencils' and…
Decide whether a sentence is in the past, present or future tense, and choose the verb that matches a time word like yesterday, now or…
Choose the collective noun that names a group: a flock of sheep, a swarm of bees, a pod of dolphins, a gaggle of geese and more.…
Use adjectives to compare: add -er and -est, follow the spelling rules, use more and most with long adjectives, and learn good, better,…
Choose the joining word (conjunction) that makes sense: and, but, so, because, or — and, at the advanced level, although, unless, until,…
Join two words into a contraction with an apostrophe, and split contractions back into their two words. Expected-level practice with the…
Turn adjectives into adverbs that describe how something is done: add -ly, change y to i (happily), -le to -ly (gently), and learn good →…
Change verbs into the past tense: add -ed, drop the e, double the last letter, change y to i, and learn the irregular past tense verbs.…
Write the plural of each noun using the spelling rules (-s, -es, -ies, -ves) and learn the irregular plurals. Expected-level practice with…
Use an apostrophe to show who owns something: 's for one owner, s' for more than one, and 's for plurals like children's. Expected-level…
Choose the pronoun that can replace the words in bold: he, she, it, they, we for the subject and him, her, it, them, us for the object.…
Choose the verb that agrees with the subject: is or are, was or were, has or have, and tricky subjects like 'the box of pencils' and…
Decide whether a sentence is in the past, present or future tense, and choose the verb that matches a time word like yesterday, now or…
Choose the collective noun that names a group: a flock of sheep, a swarm of bees, a pod of dolphins, a gaggle of geese and more. A…
Use adjectives to compare: add -er and -est, follow the spelling rules, use more and most with long adjectives, and learn good, better,…
Choose the joining word (conjunction) that makes sense: and, but, so, because, or — and, at the advanced level, although, unless, until,…
Join two words into a contraction with an apostrophe, and split contractions back into their two words. A challenge set with trickier and…
Turn adjectives into adverbs that describe how something is done: add -ly, change y to i (happily), -le to -ly (gently), and learn good →…
Change verbs into the past tense: add -ed, drop the e, double the last letter, change y to i, and learn the irregular past tense verbs. A…
Write the plural of each noun using the spelling rules (-s, -es, -ies, -ves) and learn the irregular plurals. A challenge set with…
Use an apostrophe to show who owns something: 's for one owner, s' for more than one, and 's for plurals like children's. A challenge set…
Choose the pronoun that can replace the words in bold: he, she, it, they, we for the subject and him, her, it, them, us for the object. A…
Choose the verb that agrees with the subject: is or are, was or were, has or have, and tricky subjects like 'the box of pencils' and…
Decide whether a sentence is in the past, present or future tense, and choose the verb that matches a time word like yesterday, now or…
Join two words into a contraction with an apostrophe, and split contractions back into their two words. A challenge set with trickier and…
Change verbs into the past tense: add -ed, drop the e, double the last letter, change y to i, and learn the irregular past tense verbs. A…
Write the plural of each noun using the spelling rules (-s, -es, -ies, -ves) and learn the irregular plurals. A challenge set with…
Quick checks for understanding.
A quick ten-question check of the grammar covered in Year 6: subject–verb agreement, main and subordinate clauses, complex sentences,…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.
