1st grade grammar worksheets

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15 grammar skills at 1st grade, one sheet each, free with its answer key: action verbs, articles (a, an, the), common and proper nouns, and more.

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  • Action verbs An action verb tells what someone or something does.
  • Articles (a, an, the) Use a before a consonant sound and an before a vowel sound: a banana, an apple.
  • Common and proper nouns A common noun names any one (city, girl, day). A proper noun names a specific one and starts with a capital (Chicago, Maya, Monday).
  • Coordinating conjunctions A conjunction joins ideas: and adds, but shows a difference, or gives a choice, so shows what happens because of it.
  • Identifying adjectives An adjective describes a noun. It tells what kind, how many, or which one.
  • Identifying nouns A noun names a person, a place, a thing, or an animal.
  • Identifying prepositions A preposition tells where, when, or how something connects: in, on, under, after, with.
  • Indefinite pronouns Indefinite pronouns point at no one in particular: everyone, someone, nobody, anything. They let a sentence talk about people and things without naming them.
  • Past, present, and future verbs Verbs tell time: walked already happened, walks is happening, will walk hasn't happened yet.
  • Personal pronouns A pronoun takes the place of a noun: he, she, it, we, they, her, my.
  • Plural noun rules Most nouns add -s. Words ending in x, ch, sh, or s add -es. Words ending in consonant + y change y to -ies.
  • Possessive pronouns Possessive pronouns show who owns something: my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs.
  • Question words Question words open the door to answers: who asks about people, what about things, where about places, when about times, why about reasons, and how about the way.
  • Subject-verb agreement The verb has to match the subject: one dog barks, two dogs bark.
  • This, that, these, and those This and these point to things close by; that and those point to things far away. This and that are for one; these and those are for more.

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