3rd grade grammar worksheets
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and the rest of the parts of speech. Every grammar skill we teach at 3rd grade, one to a page. Each prints as a PDF with its answer key, and no two prints are the same.
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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