3rd grade grammar worksheets

32 grammar skills at 3rd grade, one sheet each, free with its answer key: abstract and concrete nouns, action verbs, adjective or adverb, and more.

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Nouns

Abstract and concrete nouns Concrete nouns can be seen, heard, or touched: bridge, thunder, pretzel. Abstract nouns are ideas and feelings: courage, luck, patience. The five-senses test tells them apart.
Collective nouns A collective noun names a group: a herd of cows, a flock of birds, a litter of puppies.
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).
Identifying nouns, new A noun names a person, a place, a thing, or an animal.
Irregular plural nouns Some nouns don't add -s for the plural. They change: one mouse, two mice; one foot, two feet.
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 nouns Add apostrophe-s to show owning: Maya's backpack. If the owners already end in s, the apostrophe goes after: the twins' room.

Action verbs, new An action verb tells what someone or something does.
Helping verbs A helping verb works before the main verb: She is running. They have finished. We will visit.
Irregular past tense verbs Irregular verbs don't add -ed for the past. They change: go became went, eat became ate.
Linking verbs A linking verb connects the subject to a word that describes it: The soup smells wonderful.
Past, present, and future verbs Verbs tell time: walked already happened, walks is happening, will walk hasn't happened yet.
Subject-verb agreement The verb has to match the subject: one dog barks, two dogs bark.

Articles (a, an, the) Use a before a consonant sound and an before a vowel sound: a banana, an apple.
Comparative and superlative adjectives Use -er to compare two things and -est to compare three or more: taller of the two, tallest of all.
Identifying adjectives An adjective describes a noun. It tells what kind, how many, or which one.
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.

Adjective or adverb? Adjectives describe nouns: a quick fox, the soup smells wonderful. Adverbs describe verbs: she runs quickly, stir gently. Ask what the word is describing.
Adverbs of how, when, and where Adverbs answer three questions about an action: how (quietly), when (today), and where (outside).
Comparing with adverbs Adverbs compare too: short ones take -er and -est (faster, fastest); -ly ones take more and most (more quickly, most quickly); and well goes better, best.
Identifying adverbs An adverb tells how, when, or where something happens.

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.
Personal pronouns A pronoun takes the place of a noun: he, she, it, we, they, her, my.
Possessive pronouns Possessive pronouns show who owns something: my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs.
Pronoun-antecedent agreement A pronoun has to match the noun it stands for: Maya packed her bag, and the twins packed their bags. In school writing, a team acting as one takes its, and each of the girls takes her.
Reflexive pronouns A reflexive pronoun points the action back at the doer: I made it myself; they helped themselves.

Identifying prepositions A preposition tells where, when, or how something connects: in, on, under, after, with.

Coordinating conjunctions A conjunction joins ideas: and adds, but shows a difference, or gives a choice, so shows what happens because of it.
Subordinating conjunctions Subordinating conjunctions join a helper idea to a main idea and name the link: because (why), although (surprise), until (time), if (condition).

Commonly confused words Some words sound alike but mean different things: their, there, and they're are three different words.
Formal or informal? English wears different clothes for different rooms. Formal: Good afternoon; I would appreciate your help. Informal: Hey! Wanna play? Both are correct, in their place.
Parts of speech, new Ask what the word does in this sentence: a noun names something, a verb shows an action or a state of being, an adjective describes a noun, an adverb tells how, when, where or how often, and a pronoun takes the place of a noun.

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