8th Grade Grammar Worksheets

8th Grade worksheets by skill

Each skill has its own page with the rules written out and a generator set to that skill alone.

• Verb Tenses worksheetsPast, present and future — including irregular past forms, the progressive tenses, and keeping one tense across a whole sentence.
• Pronouns worksheetsWords that stand in for nouns — he, her, theirs, myself, who — and choosing the form that fits the job in the sentence.
• Possessives and Apostrophes worksheetsShowing that something belongs to someone — singular, plural, irregular plural — and knowing when NOT to use an apostrophe.
• Punctuation worksheetsEnd marks, quotation marks and sentence boundaries — including fixing run-ons and fragments.
• Commas worksheetsWhere the comma goes: lists, dates and addresses, introductory phrases, direct address, and extra information.
• Conjunctions worksheetsJoining words — and, but, because, although, either/or — and using them to combine short sentences into longer ones.
• Subject-Verb Agreement worksheetsMaking the verb match its subject, including the sentences where the subject is not the word sitting next to the verb.
• Commonly Confused Words worksheetsThe pairs that stay wrong for years — their/there/they're, your/you're, its/it's, to/too/two, then/than.
• Phrases and Clauses worksheetsTelling a phrase from a clause, and building simple, compound, complex and compound-complex sentences.
• Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers worksheetsPutting a describing phrase next to the thing it describes, so the sentence means what the writer intended.
• Verbals worksheetsVerb forms doing another job — gerunds acting as nouns, participles as adjectives, and infinitives as almost anything.
• Active and Passive Voice worksheetsWhether the subject does the action or receives it, how to switch between the two, and when the passive is the right choice.

Questions parents and teachers ask

What grammar is taught in 8th grade?

Verbals: gerunds, participles and infinitives, Active and passive voice, Verb mood, including the conditional and subjunctive, Correcting inappropriate shifts in voice and mood and commas, dashes and ellipses to mark a pause or break, agreement in sentences with intervening phrases. That is the curriculum. This generator covers verb tenses, pronouns, possessives and apostrophes, punctuation, commas, conjunctions, subject-verb agreement, commonly confused words, phrases and clauses, misplaced and dangling modifiers, verbals, active and passive voice — a subset of it, and every question it prints is written for this grade.

How long should a 8th grade grammar worksheet be?

Ten to fifteen questions is usually right for this age. A shorter sheet done properly, with the answer key gone through afterwards, beats a long one rushed. Change the count in the panel above.

Are these worksheets free to print?

Yes. There is no account, no download limit and no watermark on the questions. Press Print / Save as PDF and your browser handles the rest, including saving it as a PDF file.

Which skills can I choose for 8th grade?

12 of them: Verb Tenses, Pronouns, Possessives and Apostrophes, Punctuation, Commas, Conjunctions, Subject-Verb Agreement, Commonly Confused Words, Phrases and Clauses, Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers, Verbals, Active and Passive Voice. Tick any combination and the questions are mixed together on one sheet.

Next and previous grade

Working a year ahead or a year behind is normal. Every grade is listed on the grades page.

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