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Free Year 9 Grammar Worksheets — New Zealand

6 free grammar resources for Year 9, 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.

Year 9 Grammar topics

Worksheets

Printable practice with an answer sheet.

  • Worksheet

    Active and Passive Voice

    Students learn that in the active voice the subject does the action (the council approved the plan) while in the passive the subject…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    20 min
    Questions
    17 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    Apostrophes and Commas: Year 9 Review

    A focused review of the two punctuation marks that cause the most errors in Year 9 writing. Students revise apostrophes for contraction…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    20 min
    Questions
    16 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    How to Use Semicolons and Colons

    Students learn the jobs of two often-avoided punctuation marks. They use a semicolon to join two closely related main clauses, before a…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    25 min
    Questions
    15 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    Relative Clauses: Essential and Non-Essential Information

    Students learn how relative clauses beginning with who, whose, which, that and where add information about a noun, and how commas change…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    25 min
    Questions
    17 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    Parallel Structure: Keeping Lists and Comparisons Balanced

    Students learn that items joined in a list, a comparison or a pair such as not only... but also should take the same grammatical form.…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    25 min
    Questions
    14 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    Punctuating Dialogue: Quotation Marks, Commas and New Speakers

    Students learn the conventions for setting out dialogue in a story: quotation marks around the spoken words, a comma or other mark inside…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    25 min
    Questions
    13 questions
    Answers
    Answers included

Common questions

Do writing tasks have answers?

Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.

Are the reading passages original?

Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.

How to use these resources

  1. Do one grammar worksheet, then find the same feature in a book you're reading.
  2. Use the quiz at the end of a year level to check what's stuck.
  3. Apply the skill: edit a piece of your own writing for that feature.