3rd Grade Grammar Worksheets

Grammar & Parts of Speech skills for 3rd grade

• 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).
• Commonly Confused Words Choose the word · answer key Some words sound alike but mean different things: their, there, and they're are three different words.
• 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 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.
• Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Choose the word · answer key A pronoun has to match the noun it stands for: Maya packed her bag; the twins packed their bags.
• 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.
• Subordinating Conjunctions Choose the word · answer key Subordinating conjunctions join a helper idea to a main idea and name the link: because (why), although (surprise), until (time), if (condition).
• 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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