4th grade grammar worksheets

29 grammar skills at 4th 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.
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.
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.
Modal auxiliaries (can, may, must) Modals are helper verbs that set the strength of a sentence: must is a rule, should is advice, can is ability, may is permission, might is a maybe.
Progressive verb tenses Progressive tenses show action in motion: am, is, or are + -ing for now (is raining); was or were + -ing for a moment in the past (was raining).
Subject-verb agreement The verb has to match the subject: one dog barks, two dogs bark.

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, new An adjective describes a noun. It tells what kind, how many, or which one.
Ordering adjectives English lines up adjectives in a set order: opinion, then size, then age, then shape, then color, then material. A little red boat, never a red little boat.

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.
Negatives and double negatives In standard written English, one negative per idea is the rule. After don't, can't, and never, use any-, anything, anyone, ever: We don't have ANY time, not no time.

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.
Relative pronouns and adverbs Relative pronouns glue a description onto a noun: who for people, which for things (with commas), that for things and sometimes people (no commas), whose for belonging, where and when for places and times.
Subject and object pronouns Subject pronouns do the action: I, he, she, we, they. Object pronouns receive it: me, him, her, us, them. Drop the other person and your ear solves it: 'The coach chose me.'

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).

Interjections An interjection is a burst of feeling with its own punctuation: Ouch! Hooray! Shh! It stands apart from the sentence and sets its emotion.

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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