Grammar Worksheets by Skill

19 grammar skills, each with its own page: the rules written out in plain words, the questions that test them, and an answer key you can print separately.

All skills

Which skills apply at which grade

Number of questions available for each skill at each grade level
Skill	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th
Nouns	6	16	24	21	12	5	—	—
Plural Nouns	12	30	37	35	17	—	—	—
Verb Tenses	6	17	21	26	25	16	13	8
Adjectives	7	12	19	21	18	13	—	—
Adverbs	—	6	17	23	24	20	8	—
Pronouns	—	4	11	20	24	25	19	13
Contractions	8	24	33	30	18	—	—	—
Possessives and Apostrophes	—	—	6	19	25	23	20	7
Capitalization	6	12	20	20	17	12	—	—
Punctuation	6	11	12	15	12	11	12	7
Commas	—	—	8	12	18	19	16	12
Prepositions	—	7	12	19	20	17	12	—
Conjunctions	—	7	10	14	17	17	15	11
Subject-Verb Agreement	—	—	9	18	28	28	29	23
Commonly Confused Words	—	—	9	21	26	29	27	20
Phrases and Clauses	—	—	—	—	6	18	23	25
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers	—	—	—	—	—	6	19	23
Verbals	—	—	—	—	—	—	21	27
Active and Passive Voice	—	—	—	—	—	—	15	24

Each number is how many questions that skill has written for that grade, and every number here is a grade you can actually pick on that skill’s page. A dash means either that the skill is not usually taught at that level, or that there are too few questions written for it yet to make a worthwhile sheet.

Which skill to practice next

First: what the words are

Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns. Nothing else can be taught until a child can point at a word and say what job it is doing, because every later rule is stated in those terms — "the subject agrees with the verb" is meaningless if subject and verb are not yet visible.

Then: what the marks do

Capital letters, end punctuation, apostrophes in contractions and possessives, then commas. These are largely conventions to be learned rather than reasoned about, which makes them the ones that reward short, frequent practice most.

Then: agreement across a sentence

Subject-verb agreement, verb tenses and the confusable words. This is the first band where the answer depends on something further away than the word next to it, and it is where most marks are lost from third grade onward.

Last: structure and choice

Phrases and clauses, misplaced modifiers, verbals, active and passive voice. By this point several answers are grammatical and the question is which one says what the writer meant — so the answer key explains the reasoning rather than just naming the letter.

When is a skill finished? A useful test: can they get it right in a sentence they have not seen, with another skill mixed in beside it? Most of the questions that ask them to apply a rule are set inside a sentence for that reason — a child who can circle nouns on a page of nothing but nouns has learned the page layout, not the noun. Definition and word-form questions are here too, but they are the warm-up, not the test.

Mixing skills. Each page here is locked to one skill so the sheet always matches what the page is about. To combine two or three, open your grade page and tick them there; the sheet takes from each skill in turn rather than arriving in blocks, which is closer to how they turn up on a test. If one of the skills runs out of questions for that grade, the rest of the sheet fills from the others.