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Punctuation worksheets
Each sentence stops where its punctuation should be, and there is a ruled space for the mark. A period or a question mark: which one is decided by the way the sentence is built, not by how it is read aloud.
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- 1.Put the muddy boots outside the door
- 2.My uncle drove us to Scotland
- 3.My cousin posted the letter to Ireland
- 4.A wooden bridge crossed the stream at Oxford
- 5.How did they carry the ladder safely
- 6.When does the library open on Sunday
- 7.The scouts marched proudly through Norway
- 8.Remember your lunchbox on Monday
- 9.The hungry kitten slept in the cupboard
- 10.Explain your answer clearly to the class
- 11.The old tractor belonged to Jack
- 12.The lesson finished early on Thursday
- 13.Where did you put the tickets for Friday
- 14.The enormous whale dived under the boat
- 15.The postman knocked loudly on the door
- 16.Deliver these letters to Harriet
- 17.Has the parcel arrived in Kenya
- 18.Describe the journey to Iceland
- 19.The early train arrived in Cardiff
- 20.Our new puppy chewed my slipper
- 1.Put the muddy boots outside the door.
- 2.My uncle drove us to Scotland.
- 3.My cousin posted the letter to Ireland.
- 4.A wooden bridge crossed the stream at Oxford.
- 5.How did they carry the ladder safely?
- 6.When does the library open on Sunday?
- 7.The scouts marched proudly through Norway.
- 8.Remember your lunchbox on Monday.
- 9.The hungry kitten slept in the cupboard.
- 10.Explain your answer clearly to the class.
- 11.The old tractor belonged to Jack.
- 12.The lesson finished early on Thursday.
- 13.Where did you put the tickets for Friday?
- 14.The enormous whale dived under the boat.
- 15.The postman knocked loudly on the door.
- 16.Deliver these letters to Harriet.
- 17.Has the parcel arrived in Kenya?
- 18.Describe the journey to Iceland.
- 19.The early train arrived in Cardiff.
- 20.Our new puppy chewed my slipper.
What is on this sheet
Only two marks are asked for, and the reason is the same one that shapes the rest of this shelf. Whether a sentence deserves an exclamation mark is a judgment about tone — “What a mess” is right with a bang and not wrong with a period — so an answer key cannot honestly claim either. A period against a question mark is decided by grammar instead: a sentence that inverts its verb or opens on a question word is a question, and nothing else is.
Commands are on this sheet on purpose, and they are the reason it is worth doing at all. “Put the muddy boots outside the door” takes a period although it is not a statement, which is exactly the case a child gets wrong after being taught that questions get question marks and everything else is a statement. Twenty short sentences in two columns is about five minutes, which is the right length for a thing that is mostly about noticing.
The answers were not worked out by a program reading the sentences. Every sentence on this page was written down and tagged — what it is for, where it divides, which one word can be named without argument — and the questions are views of those tags. That is the only honest way to print a grammar key: a sheet that marks a defensible answer wrong teaches a child something false, which is worse than no sheet at all. The number in the footer is the seed the sheet was built from, so the identical sheet can be had again next week.
Change what is on it
This page is one sheet out of a family that prints five lessons. The topic is a setting rather than a different worksheet: parts of speech, subject and predicate, kinds of sentence, the mark at the end, and the word that needs a capital. Two of the five can be asked either way — circled from a list of names, or written out on a ruled line — and how many sentences and how many columns are switches beside them.
The settings travel in the link rather than on a server, so a sheet you make can be bookmarked or sent to another family as it stands — and the Name: line is printed blank, because there is nowhere in a shared link to put a child’s name. See what we don’t collect.
The words the sentences are made of
A sentence is only as good as its spelling, and the shelf next door prints that half: this week’s list in five shapes, sight words to trace and find, and ten pages on how words work. Word Jungle then reads the same lists aloud, which is the one thing paper cannot do — and the record book keeps track of which words a child keeps missing, so the next sheet can be exactly those.
