My Grammar Skills

PRACTICE Packet

______________________________________________________ Name

JMJ

We write complete sentences!

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Subject and Predicate Review A complete sentence has 2 parts:

1. A subject: tells who/what does/did something 2. A predicate: tells what the subject does/did

Directions: Highlight the subject of the sentence using your favorite color.

1. Last night Daphne ate a treat.

2. Charlie read one hundred pages?

3. My friends Max and Mathias play hockey.

4. Chloe won an award!

Directions: Circle the words that finish each sentence using your second favorite color!

1. My brother _____________________. writes music music

2. Paxton __________________ a bear! and saw

3. Our class _______________________! acts out a play a play

4. Will ___________________ read a story? eat Maria

5. Sarah _____________________ her bike. rides not

I use complete sentences!

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Five-Star Sentences Capital letters Spaces Punctuation Best handwriting Makes sense Directions: Edit each sentence to make it a Five-Star Sentence! 1. dominic brings The decorations for our party 2. Would you lik to play with me 3. Mac tsy for a pen . 4. they think i saw sumthing, but I did not 5. Kayla and nicole 6. I can’t believeit! 7. where are my mittens

What makes a 5-star

sentence?

ciL asked be (Rewrite with better handwriting!)

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Types of Sentences Review Declarative sentence (.): a statement that gives information Interrogative sentence (?): asks a question Imperative sentence (./!): a command Exclamatory sentence (!): shows a big emotion, like surprise or excitement Directions: Draw a line to match each sentence with what kind of sentence it is.

1. Did you eat breakfast? Exclamatory

2. I like pizza. Declarative

3. We can’t believe it! Interrogative

4. Clean your desk. Imperative Directions: Write your own example of each type of sentence. 1. Exclamatory: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Interrogatory: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Imperative: ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Declarative: ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________

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Nouns

Review Singular noun: one person, place, thing, or animal Plural noun: more than one person, place, thing, or animal Directions: Circle the noun in each sentence and draw it in the box. 1. That dog is very fluffy. 3. When will the bus arrive? 2. Santa Claus came early! 4. Where is the zoo? Directions: Fill in the chart with the singular or plural form of each noun.

Singular (one) Plural (more than one)

baby

hats

candies

box

card

kite

foxes

family

Name: ____________________

Singular or Plural?Shade the correct word.

Singular means just one.

Plural means more than one.

glove gloves

bush bushes

egg eggs

pig pigs hat hats

flower flowers

balloon balloons

dog dogs

tree trees

Name: ____________________

Adding ‘s’Add ‘s’ to the end of these singular words to change

them to plurals.

crab

teacher

chair

spider

bow

cup

pencil

table

bug

Singular means just one.

Plural means more than one.

Name: ____________________

Adding ‘es’Add ‘es’ to the end of these singular words to change

them to plurals.

box

beach

brush

glass

bunch

kiss

watch

bus

foxAdd ‘es’ to words ending in ‘ch’, ‘sh’, ‘s’, ‘ss’, ‘x’ or ‘z’ to make them plural.

Name: ____________________

Adding ‘ies’fly

family

story

cherry

lady

city

berry

monkey

cry

Change the ‘y’ to an ‘i’ and add ‘es’ to change these words to plurals.

If the word ends in ‘y’ change it to an ‘i’ and add ‘es’.

Name: ____________________

Person, Place or Thing?Color the nouns using the key below.

toyhospital duck

libraryfarmer man

parkmom soup

cousinhorse star

airportegg bag

popcornnurse museum

Blue

Person

Green

Place

Red

Thing

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Name: ____________________

Find the NounsColor the nouns yellow and all the other words green.

ant

little

sad

skip

bike

dad

sing

home

shirt

kind

door

bank

book

angry

tall

ratzoo

baby

farm

red

eat

frog

man

the

car

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Name: ____________________

Write down a noun for each letter of the alphabet.

Noun HuntA noun is a:

person

place

thing

A B C D

E F G H

I J K L

M N O P

Q R S T

U V W X

Y Z

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Color the NounsColor the nouns using the key below.

Blue

Person

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Name: ____________________

Green

Place

Red

Thing

Color the NounsColor the nouns using the key below.

Blue

Person

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Name: ____________________

Green

Place

Red

Thing

Name: ____________________

Brainstorming NounsWrite down some nouns that you may find at these places.

Farm

Classroom

Bathroom

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Name: ____________________

Find the NounA noun is a:

person

place

thingCircle the nouns in each sentence and write them on the lines.

We put a letter in the mailbox.

Max cooked a yummy pizza.

We saw a shark in the ocean.

Mom wore a sparkly necklace.

The fireman put out a fire.

I saw a clown at the circus.

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Review Common noun: a person, place, thing, or animal that does not have a name Examples: the teacher, the restaurant, the pencil, the dog Proper noun: a specific person, place, thing, or animal that has a name Examples: Ms. Henning, Chik-fil-A, Penny *Use a capital letter to show a proper noun. Directions: Draw a line to match each common noun to its proper noun.

girl

store

mouse

country

boy

restaurant

teacher

candy

Africa

Mary

McDonald’s

Target

Max

Mickey Mouse

Twizzlers

Ms. Walsh

Name: ___________________

Capital LettersFill the monkey with all the words that need a capital.

kate

girl

boy

fred

hershey’s

day

park

china

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Prefixes and Suffixes

Review Prefixes and suffixes can be added to a root word to change its meaning.

Example:

Directions: Write the root word for each changed word.

Prefix re-, un-, or Suffix -ed Root Word

picked pick

rewrite

snapped

landed

unpack

review

undo

patted

prefix root suffix

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Verbs

Review Verb: names an action that someone does or did Example: jump Verbs in the present tense happen now: I jump. He jumps. Verbs in the past tense happened in the past: She jumped. Verbs in the future tense will happen later: The frog will jump. Directions: Use the color code to show which tense each verb is in! past tense = purple present tense = red future tense = green

run danced will run

ate will sing laughed

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at home I can… at the park I can…

at school I can… at the beach I can…

What can you do at… Directions: Write as many action verbs that you can do at each place as you can think of!

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Compound Words

Review Compound word: two words put together to make a longer word Example: snow + man = snowman

Directions: Use the pictures to build a compound word! Directions: Use the picture clue to write the missing part of each compound word.

tea_______________ _______________paste rain_______________

_______________man gold_______________ news_______________

Name: _________________

Cloudy VerbsColor the verbs RED and the other words BLUE..

jumped small ate

painted cried golden

drank truck fell

beach monkey threw

flew bus hid

talked hopped soft

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y Teaching Pal

Name: _________________

Find the Verbs

Ben wrote a story in class.

Circle the verb in each sentence and write it in the box.

The dog dug a huge hole outside.

A spider crawled up my leg.

My sister plays the harp.

The I licked my blue lollipop.

The ladybug flew onto a leaf.

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Name: ___________________

Compound WordsWrite all the compound words in the snowman.

pizza

orange

jumpingstudent

trees

Compound Words

Name: ___________________

Split the

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Split the compound words into their word parts.

butterfly

toolbox

doorbell

starlight

anything

raindrop

hotdog

fireplace

mailman

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y Teaching Pal