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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?
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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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