2nd Grade Grammar Worksheets
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and the rest of the parts of speech. These are the grammar skills we cover at the 2nd grade level. Every sheet prints as a PDF with its answer key, and no two prints are the same.
Grammar & Parts of Speech skills for 2nd grade
- Action Verbs Identify & Multiple choice · answer key An action verb tells what someone or something does.
- Adverbs of How, When, and Where Sorting · answer key Adverbs answer three questions about an action: how (quietly), when (today), and where (outside).
- Articles (A, An, The) Choose the word · answer key Use a before a consonant sound and an before a vowel sound: a banana, an apple.
- Collective Nouns Choose the word · answer key A collective noun names a group: a herd of cows, a flock of birds, a litter of puppies.
- Common and Proper Nouns Sorting · answer key A common noun names any one (city, girl, day). A proper noun names a specific one and starts with a capital (Chicago, Maya, Monday).
- Comparative and Superlative Adjectives Choose the word · answer key Use -er to compare two things and -est to compare three or more: taller of the two, tallest of all.
- Coordinating Conjunctions Choose the word · answer key A conjunction joins ideas: and adds, but shows a difference, or gives a choice, so shows what happens because of it.
- Helping Verbs Identify & Multiple choice · answer key A helping verb works before the main verb: She is running. They have finished. We will visit.
- Identifying Adjectives Identify & Multiple choice · answer key An adjective describes a noun. It tells what kind, how many, or which one.
- Identifying Adverbs Identify & Multiple choice · answer key An adverb tells how, when, or where something happens.
- Identifying Nouns Identify & Multiple choice · answer key A noun names a person, a place, a thing, or an animal.
- Identifying Prepositions Identify & Multiple choice · answer key A preposition tells where, when, or how something connects: in, on, under, after, with.
- Irregular Past Tense Verbs Fix it & Choose the word · answer key Irregular verbs don't add -ed for the past. They change: go became went, eat became ate.
- Irregular Plural Nouns Choose the word · answer key Some nouns don't add -s for the plural. They change: one mouse, two mice; one foot, two feet.
- Linking Verbs Identify & Multiple choice · answer key A linking verb connects the subject to a word that describes it: The soup smells wonderful.
- Past, Present, and Future Verbs Sorting · answer key Verbs tell time: walked already happened, walks is happening, will walk hasn't happened yet.
- Personal Pronouns Identify & Multiple choice · answer key A pronoun takes the place of a noun: he, she, it, we, they, her, my.
- Plural Noun Rules Choose the word · answer key Most nouns add -s. Words ending in x, ch, sh, or s add -es. Words ending in consonant + y change y to -ies.
- Possessive Nouns Choose the word · answer key Add apostrophe-s to show owning: Maya's backpack. If the owners already end in s, the apostrophe goes after: the twins' room.
- Possessive Pronouns Choose the word · answer key Possessive pronouns show who owns something: my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs.
- Reflexive Pronouns Choose the word · answer key A reflexive pronoun points the action back at the doer: I made it myself; they helped themselves.
- Subject-Verb Agreement Choose the word · answer key The verb has to match the subject: one dog barks, two dogs bark.
- This, That, These, and Those Choose the word · answer key 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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