Grammar and Punctuation Worksheets
Printable grammar and punctuation worksheets for 1st–3rd grade: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, plurals, subject-verb agreement, capitalization, commas, quotation marks, contractions and possessives, with answer keys.
Nouns, pronouns and verbs
Nouns and Verbs Worksheets
kindergarten–3rd grade
Printable nouns and verbs worksheets: sort words into nouns and verbs, circle nouns and underline verbs in sentences, and write your own sentence. Answer key included.
Pronouns Worksheets
1st–2nd grade
Printable pronouns worksheets: replace nouns with pronouns, choose possessive pronouns (my, his, her, their), and pick the pronoun that fits (I or me, they or them). Answer key included.
Verb Tenses Worksheets
1st–3rd grade
Printable verb tenses worksheets: sort sentences into past, present and future, fill in a verb chart with spelling changes (hopped, cried), and use time clues to write the right tense. Answer key included.
Prepositions Worksheets
1st–3rd grade
Printable prepositions worksheets: circle the preposition in each sentence (under, across, between, after), choose the preposition that makes sense, and write sentences with prepositions. Answer key included.
Plural Nouns Worksheets
1st–3rd grade
Printable plural nouns worksheets: add -s or -es, change y to ies, and write irregular plurals like children, feet, teeth, mice and fish. Answer key included.
Collective Nouns Worksheets
2nd grade
Printable collective nouns worksheets: match group words like flock, herd, pack and swarm to what they name, then finish sentences with collective nouns. Answer key included.
Possessive Nouns Worksheets
2nd–3rd grade
Printable possessive nouns worksheets: rewrite phrases with singular and plural possessive nouns, and choose the correct possessive (dog’s or dogs’). Answer key included.
Reflexive Pronouns Worksheets
2nd grade
Printable reflexive pronouns worksheets: write the reflexive pronoun for each subject, circle the one that fits, and finish sentences with myself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves or themselves. Answer key included.
Subject-Verb Agreement Worksheets
1st–3rd grade
Printable subject-verb agreement worksheets: circle the verb that matches the subject (runs or run), choose is/are, was/were and has/have, and rewrite sentences with the wrong verb. Answer key included.
Irregular Past Tense Verbs Worksheets
2nd–3rd grade
Printable irregular past tense verbs worksheets: write the past tense of common irregular verbs, circle the right form (ran or runned), and finish sentences. Answer key included.
Adjectives and adverbs
Adjectives Worksheets
1st–3rd grade
Printable adjectives worksheets: sort adjectives and nouns, circle the adjectives in sentences, and write adjectives to describe things. Answer key included.
Adverbs Worksheets
2nd–3rd grade
Printable adverbs worksheets: turn adjectives into -ly adverbs (quick → quickly, happy → happily), choose between an adjective and an adverb, and finish sentences. Answer key included.
Sentences, punctuation and capitalization
Types of Sentences Worksheets
1st–2nd grade
Printable types of sentences worksheets: add the end mark and identify statements, questions, commands and exclamations, then write one of each. Answer key included.
Run-On Sentences and Sentence Fragments Worksheets
2nd–4th grade
Printable run-on sentences and fragments worksheets: decide whether each one is a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on, then fix fragments and run-ons. Answer key with example answers.
Conjunctions and Compound Sentences Worksheets
1st–3rd grade
Printable conjunctions worksheets: choose and, but, or, so or because, combine two sentences into a compound sentence with a comma and a conjunction, and write your own. Answer key included.
Capitalization Worksheets
1st–2nd grade
Printable capitalization worksheets: circle words that need capitals and rewrite sentences with capital letters for names, the word I, days, months, holidays and places. Answer key included.
Commas in Dates and Lists Worksheets
1st–2nd grade
Printable commas worksheets: add commas to dates (May 4, 2024 and Saturday, May 4, 2024) and to lists of three or more words. Answer key included.
Quotation Marks Worksheets
3rd grade
Printable quotation marks worksheets: add quotation marks and commas to dialogue, check whether sentences are punctuated correctly, and write your own dialogue. Answer key included.
Apostrophes Worksheets
2nd–3rd grade
Printable apostrophes worksheets that review contractions and possessives: sort contraction or possessive, write contractions, write possessive nouns, and choose its or it’s. Answer key included.
Contractions Worksheets
1st–3rd grade
Printable contractions worksheets: write the contraction, write the two words, match, and rewrite sentences. Practice contractions with not, am/is/are, will and have. Answer key included.
Word meaning and word parts
Synonyms and Antonyms Worksheets
1st–4th grade
Printable synonyms and antonyms worksheets: decide whether word pairs are synonyms or antonyms, match synonyms, and write opposites. Answer key included.
Homophones Worksheets
2nd–4th grade
Printable homophones worksheets: choose the right word in each sentence (to, too, two; there, their, they’re; hear, here; blew, blue) and write a homophone for each word. Answer key included.
Multiple-Meaning Words Worksheets
1st–3rd grade
Printable multiple-meaning words worksheets: use the sentence to choose the right meaning of words like bat, bark, ring and fall, then find one word that fits two sentences. Answer key included.
Shades of Meaning Worksheets
1st–3rd grade
Printable shades of meaning worksheets: put sets of related words like warm, hot and boiling in order from weakest to strongest, then choose the word that fits a sentence best. Answer key included.
Prefixes and Suffixes Worksheets
2nd–3rd grade
Printable prefixes and suffixes worksheets: split words into prefix, base word and suffix, and write the meaning of each word. Covers un-, re-, pre-, dis-, mis-, -ful, -less, -er, -ly and -able. Answer key included.
How to use these grammar worksheets
- Each worksheet makes a new set with one click and prints with an answer key on the last page.
- Teach one rule at a time with the example at the top of the sheet, then mix skills for review.
- Pair punctuation sheets with student writing: have students fix one sentence from their own work.