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Naming Words
A gentle first look at nouns, called naming words at this age. Children pick out the words that name people, animals, places and things,…
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- Getting started
- Time
- 10 min
- Questions
- 14 questions
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- Answers included
Free Grammar Worksheets — All Year Levels
44 free grammar resources. Parts of speech, sentence structure and punctuation. Typically taught from Foundation to Year 10.
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Capital Letters and Full Stops
Children learn the two most important sentence rules: start with a capital letter and end with a full stop. They pick the correctly…
- Difficulty
- Getting started
- Time
- 12 min
- Questions
- 14 questions
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- Answers included
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Doing Words: Action Verbs
Children learn that a verb is a doing word that tells us what someone or something does. They find verbs in word lists and sentences,…
- Difficulty
- Getting started
- Time
- 12 min
- Questions
- 17 questions
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- Answers included
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Nouns: People, Places and Things
Children learn that a noun is a word that names a person, animal, place or thing. They pick nouns out of word lists and short sentences,…
- Difficulty
- Getting started
- Time
- 12 min
- Questions
- 14 questions
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- Answers included
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One or More? Plural Nouns
Children practise making nouns plural by adding -s, then meet the -es rule for words ending in s, x, sh or ch. They choose the right form…
- Difficulty
- Level 1 · Easier
- Time
- 12 min
- Questions
- 15 questions
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- Answers included
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Describing Words: Adjectives
Children learn that an adjective is a describing word that tells us more about a noun: its size, colour, shape, feel or taste. They pick…
- Difficulty
- Level 1 · Easier
- Time
- 15 min
- Questions
- 17 questions
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- Answers included
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Past Tense Verbs: Adding -ed
Children learn that we add -ed to many verbs to show something has already happened. They change today-verbs into yesterday-verbs, pick…
- Difficulty
- Level 1 · Easier
- Time
- 15 min
- Questions
- 17 questions
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- Answers included
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Question Marks
Children learn to tell a question from a statement and to end questions with a question mark. They sort sentences, add the right end mark,…
- Difficulty
- Level 1 · Easier
- Time
- 12 min
- Questions
- 15 questions
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- Answers included
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Simple Sentences
Children learn that a complete sentence needs a 'who or what' (the subject) and a 'what happens' (the verb), and that it makes sense on…
- Difficulty
- Level 1 · Easier
- Time
- 15 min
- Questions
- 13 questions
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- Answers included
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Finding Nouns in Sentences
Students find the nouns in sentences, decide whether each noun is a person, place or thing, and count nouns in a short passage. Builds the…
- Difficulty
- Getting started
- Time
- 12 min
- Questions
- 7 questions
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- Answers included
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Conjunctions: and, but, so, because
Students learn that conjunctions are joining words that link two ideas into one sentence, and that each one shows a different…
- Difficulty
- Level 1 · Easier
- Time
- 15 min
- Questions
- 15 questions
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- Answers included
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Nouns Explained
A plain-language guide to nouns for Year 3: what a noun is, the difference between common and proper nouns, collective nouns for groups,…
- Difficulty
- Level 1 · Easier
- Time
- 10 min
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Past, Present and Future Tense
Students learn that verbs change to show when something happens: in the past, right now, or in the future. They identify the tense of…
- Difficulty
- Level 1 · Easier
- Time
- 15 min
- Questions
- 17 questions
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- Answers included
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Apostrophes for Contractions
Students learn that a contraction squeezes two words into one, with an apostrophe marking where letters have been left out. They form…
- Difficulty
- Level 1 · Easier
- Time
- 15 min
- Questions
- 19 questions
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- Answers included
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Adverbs: How, When and Where
Students learn that adverbs add detail to verbs by telling how, when or where something happens, and that not all adverbs end in -ly. They…
- Difficulty
- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 15 min
- Questions
- 19 questions
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- Answers included
- Study Guide
Apostrophes Made Simple
Explains the two jobs an apostrophe does: showing that letters are missing (contractions) and showing that something belongs to someone…
- Difficulty
- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 15 min
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Compound Sentences
Students learn that a compound sentence joins two complete sentences (independent clauses) with a comma and a coordinating conjunction…
- Difficulty
- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 18 min
- Questions
- 14 questions
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- Answers included
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Apostrophes: Plurals, Owners and Common Mistakes
Students sharpen their apostrophe use with the cases that cause the most errors: plurals that do not own anything (no apostrophe), plural…
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- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 18 min
- Questions
- 16 questions
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- Answers included
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Complex Sentences and Clauses
Students learn that a complex sentence has a main clause that can stand alone and a subordinate clause that cannot, joined by a…
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- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 20 min
- Questions
- 20 questions
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- Answers included
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Subject–Verb Agreement
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…
- Difficulty
- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 18 min
- Questions
- 19 questions
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- Answers included
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Year 5 Grammar Quiz
A quick ten-question check of the grammar covered in Year 5: subject–verb agreement, main and subordinate clauses, complex sentences,…
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- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 10 min
- Questions
- 10 questions
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- Answers included
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Clauses and Sentence Editing
Students learn to spot the three most common sentence faults (fragments, run-ons and comma splices) and to fix them using conjunctions,…
- Difficulty
- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 20 min
- Questions
- 15 questions
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- Answers included
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Modal Verbs
Students learn that modal verbs (can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would) sit before a main verb and change its force:…
- Difficulty
- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 15 min
- Questions
- 17 questions
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- Answers included
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Year 6 Grammar Quiz
A quick ten-question check of the grammar covered in Year 6: semicolons and colons, similes and metaphors, modal verbs, fragments and…
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- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 10 min
- Questions
- 10 questions
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- Answers included
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Semicolons and Colons
Students meet two punctuation marks that make writing more sophisticated: the semicolon, which joins two closely related complete…
- Difficulty
- Level 3 · Challenge
- Time
- 18 min
- Questions
- 17 questions
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- Answers included
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Descriptive Language: Adjectives, Adverbs and Phrases
Students revise adjectives and adverbs and extend them to adjectival and adverbial phrases, the groups of words (with the broken strap,…
- Difficulty
- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 20 min
- Questions
- 16 questions
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- Answers included
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Punctuation Review
A full review of the punctuation students are expected to control by the start of high school: apostrophes for contraction and possession,…
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- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 22 min
- Questions
- 18 questions
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- Answers included
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Sentence Editing: Fragments, Run-ons and Variety
Students diagnose the sentence faults that persist into high school (fragments, fused run-ons and comma splices), repair them, and then go…
- Difficulty
- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 22 min
- Questions
- 15 questions
- Answers
- Answers included
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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
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- Answers included
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Apostrophes and Commas: Year 8 Review
A focused review of the two punctuation marks that cause the most errors in Year 8 writing. Students revise apostrophes for contraction…
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- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 20 min
- Questions
- 16 questions
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- Answers included
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Punctuation for Effect: Dashes, Colons, Ellipses
Students move beyond correctness to using punctuation deliberately. They learn how a colon sets up an explanation or list, how a dash (or…
- Difficulty
- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 20 min
- Questions
- 16 questions
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- Answers included
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Sentence Variety and Cohesion
Students learn to control rhythm and flow at paragraph level: varying sentence length and type (simple, compound, complex), opening…
- Difficulty
- Level 2 · Standard
- Time
- 25 min
- Questions
- 15 questions
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- Answers included
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Editing for Clarity and Concision
Students learn to cut what does not earn its place: redundant pairs (each and every), padded phrases (due to the fact that), empty openers…
- Difficulty
- Level 3 · Challenge
- Time
- 25 min
- Questions
- 15 questions
- Answers
- Answers included