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Free 8th Grade Sentences & Clauses Worksheets

3 free sentences & clauses resources for 8th Grade: 3 worksheets. Answers included.

Simple, compound and complex sentences; conjunctions; clauses. 8th grade extends algebra to expanding brackets and two-step equations, adds percentages increase and decrease, ratio and rates, index laws and congruence.

Students will practice: identifying active and passive voice; converting active sentences to passive; converting passive sentences to active; judging when the passive voice is appropriate; identifying relative clauses and relative pronouns; distinguishing essential from non-essential relative clauses; using commas around non-essential relative clauses; explaining how commas change meaning.

Recommended learning path

  1. 1Active and Passive Voice
  2. 2Relative Clauses: Essential and Non-Essential Information
  3. 3Parallel Structure: Keeping Lists and Comparisons Balanced

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

    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

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Common questions

What do 8th Grade students learn about sentences & clauses?

Simple, compound and complex sentences; conjunctions; clauses. At 8th Grade, our resources focus on: identifying active and passive voice; converting active sentences to passive; converting passive sentences to active; judging when the passive voice is appropriate.

Where should we start?

Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.

Are answers included?

Yes — every worksheet has an answer sheet. Maths answer sheets show the working; English tasks include model answers or success criteria.

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.

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