The Print ShopGrammar
Printable grammar worksheets
5 sheets on how a sentence is put together: what each word is doing, where the sentence divides, what it is for, and the two marks that finish it. Every one of them prints its answer key on the page behind.
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On the shelf now
Each of these is a page that is itself the worksheet — open it, press print, and that is the whole of it. The answer key is the page behind the sheet, on every one of them.
Words in a sentence
What each word is doing, and where the sentence divides in two.
- Parts of speech — Twelve sentences, each with one word marked, and five names to circle: noun, verb, adjective, adverb or pronoun. The answer key is the page behind.
- Subject and predicate — Eight sentences to divide in two, with a ruled line for the subject and a ruled line for the predicate, and the key on the page behind.
Sentences and their marks
What a sentence is for, the mark it ends on, and the letters that have to be capital.
- Kinds of sentence — Twelve sentences to sort into statements, questions, commands and exclamations, with four names to circle on every line and the key behind.
- The mark at the end — Twenty sentences printed with nothing on the end and a ruled space for the mark that belongs there — a period or a question mark, and the key behind.
- Capital letters — Twelve sentences with one word printed in lower case that should not be — a name, a place or a day — and a ruled line to write it correctly on.
Five lessons, and a smaller shelf than it could be
Grammar answers are judgments in a way that arithmetic answers are not, and that decided the size of this section.
Seven times eight is fifty-six wherever you ask it. Whether a word is an adverb, whether a comma is needed, which half of a sentence is the subject — every one of those is decidable in a particular sentence and arguable in general. A worksheet that marks a defensible answer wrong does more harm than a worksheet that was never printed, because a child learns from it that they were wrong when they were not.
So the sentences on these five pages are written down and tagged, one at a time, and every question is a view of a tag rather than a piece of parsing. The rules that decide what may be tagged are strict on purpose: no article or possessive, because the schemes disagree about what those are; no word that is a noun in one line and a verb in the next; and no exclamation mark asked for, because whether a sentence deserves one is a question about tone rather than about grammar.
The same rules are why there are five pages rather than fifty. “Noun worksheets”, “verb worksheets” and “adjective worksheets” are all things people look for, and all of them would be this same sheet with a filter on it. Five lessons, each one a week’s teaching, and everything else through the builder — which is where choosing belongs.
And the words the sentences are made of
Grammar is what a sentence does with words; spelling is the words themselves. The shelf next door prints this week’s list in five shapes, the first sight words to trace and find, and ten pages on how words work — rhyme, syllables, prefixes and suffixes, plurals, contractions, homophones, synonyms and antonyms. It is the same bargain as this one: the answers are written by a person, because English will not yield to a rule.
The rest of the Print Shop
Ten shelves and ten school years, over the same sheets. A shelf is what a sheet is; a year is who it was drawn for, which every sheet states on its own page.
By subject
By grade
Your child’s name is not in the file
The Name: line is printed blank and filled in with a pencil. Nothing is uploaded to make a sheet, no account is needed to print one, and a sheet you send to another family carries the settings you chose and nothing else — see what we don’t collect.