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Ks2 Grammar worksheets
Free worksheets: Grammar, KS2
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Speech marks practice
A KS2 literacy worksheet created by a primary-school teacher to help Year 3 children practise using speech marks correctly.
Can you continue this conversation between Harry and Thenusha using the correct rules for reported speech? Remember to start each character’s speech on a new line. Use “ to open the speech. End the speech with !, ? or , and use ” to close the speech. Use a reporting clause (a verb like said, whispered or announced).
Can you continue this conversation between Harry and Thenusha using the correct rules for reported speech? Remember to start each character’s speech on a new line. Use “ to open the speech. End the speech with !, ? or , and use ” to close the speech. Use a reporting clause (a verb like said, whispered or announced).
Column words: adjectives
Can you place the words in the correct rows in the grid so that the shaded column spells out another adjective?
Fronted adverbials: examples and meaning
A teacher-created, fronted adverbial worksheet that provides an explanation of what a fronted adverbial is, with examples and a football-themed activity. Cut out these parts of sentences. Can you match the fronted adverbial to the correct sentence ending?
Using relative clauses
Relative clauses are used to add information to a sentence. They usually start with when, who, that, which or whose. In this teacher-created worksheet for primary school children, you will need to cut out the relative clauses in the table and work out where they should go in the sentences.
Clauses in a sentence
When we talk about clauses in a sentence, we mean their parts. Clauses always have a noun and a verb in them and are often linked by a connective. These sentences each have two clauses with a comma or connective between them. Underline each of the separate clauses.
Using abstract nouns
A noun is an object. A concrete noun is one which you can touch. An abstract noun is one that you cannot touch, smell, hear, see or taste. All of these sentences are missing their abstract nouns. Cut out the
abstract nouns below and see if you can work out which gaps they need to fill in the sentences.
abstract nouns below and see if you can work out which gaps they need to fill in the sentences.
Understanding alliteration
Alliteration is the repetition of an initial letter or sound in closely connected words. Cut out the words in the table and sort them so that they are in groups according to their first letter. Now see if you can work out where they go in these sentences.
Understanding active and passive
In each of the following cases, turn the sentence from passive to active or active to passive.
The active and passive voice
Use these groups of words to write three of your own active sentences. Then use these words to write three of your own passive sentences.
Subject, verb and object
In the following sentences, underline the subject in green, the verb in purple and the object in orange
Subject and object in a sentence
Most sentences have a subject (the thing or person the sentence is about), a verb (a doing word) and an object (something that is having something done to it by the subject). Can you find appropriate subjects, verbs and objects in the table below to fill in these sentence gaps? Then underline the subject in green, the verb in purple and the object in orange.
Onomatopoeic sounds
Onomatopoeia is a word that names a sound, but also sounds like that sound. Complete these poems by choosing the correct words from the boxes on the right. Could you write your own poem using some of these words?
Nouns: concrete and abstract
A concrete noun is one that has a physical presence. An abstract noun is a concept you can’t touch, smell, hear, see or taste. Look at the following passage. Can you underline all the concrete nouns in blue and the abstract nouns in red?
Identifying concrete and abstract nouns
Read the following sentences. Underline the concrete nouns in blue and the abstract nouns in red.
Identifying active and passive
Read the following passage. It’s packed with active sentences, but can you identify the passive sentences?
Finding the subject, verb and object in sentences
Emmanuel has just been to the circus. He has written various sentences about his time there. Can you identify the subject, verb and object in each one? Underline the subject in green, the
verb in purple and the object in orange.
verb in purple and the object in orange.
Find the subject and object
These sentences contain a subject, verb and object. Underline the subject in green, the verb in purple and the object in orange.
Active and passive sentences
A Year 4 English worksheet created by an experienced teacher to help your child understand active and passive voice, with examples.
Writing task: using similes and metaphors
Look at this picture of a lake at night. Write some descriptive notes about all the elements you can see (and imagine!). Be as descriptive and imaginative as you can. Now can you turn any of these descriptions into similes or metaphors?
Writing task: using hyperbole and personification
Look at this picture of a haunted house. Write some descriptive notes about all the elements you can see (and imagine!). Be as descriptive and imaginative as you can. Remember to imagine exploring the
haunted house with your senses (sight, sound, touch and smell) to decide what to describe. Now, can you improve these descriptions using hyperbole or personification?
haunted house with your senses (sight, sound, touch and smell) to decide what to describe. Now, can you improve these descriptions using hyperbole or personification?
Rhetorical questions
A rhetorical question is one that we ask without expecting an answer, either because it has an obvious answer or because we have asked the question to make a point, to persuade or for literary effect. Now see if you can write a conversation between a teacher and a child. Make sure you include questions, some rhetorical and some not.
Identifying onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is when a word sounds like the noise it describes. Can you write a poem using onomatopoeia? Here are some subjects that you could choose from.
Connectives exercise
Connectives are words that join two parts of a text. Look at this passage and use some of the connectives in the table to fill in the gaps.
