Grammar Workout Year 3 Deepening Understanding LTD 2020

Grammar Workout Year 3 ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2020

There was two police officers walking around our street yesterday. 1. Rectify a grammatical error. 2. Explain why it was incorrect. 3. Identify the nouns. 4. Identify the preposition. 5. Re-write with the adverb at the start of the sentence. Monday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2020

There was two police officers walking around our street yesterday. 1. was were 2. ‘was’ is incorrect as there is more than one police officer. Police officers is is also plural. 3. police officers, street 4. around 5. Yesterday, there were two police officers walking around our street. Monday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2020

Don’t you dare speak to me like that! screamed the unknown lady wearing a black jacket. 1. Add inverted commas. 2. Which word would need to be eliminated if don’t was written in its expanded form? 3. Identify a command. 4. Identify the speech verb. 5. Identify the adjectives. Tuesday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2020

Don’t you dare speak to me like that! screamed the unknown lady wearing a black jacket. 1. “Don’t you dare speak to me like that!” screamed the unknown lady wearing a black jacket. 2. you 3. Don’t you dare speak to me like that! 4. screamed 5. unknown, black Tuesday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2020

My aunt is sewing a new yellow cushion for our living room. How talented is she? 1. Why doesn’t aunt need a capital letter? 2. Which words show the present progressive tense? 3. Add a missing comma. 4. Explain why it is needed. 5. Turn the question into an exclamation using the same words. Wednesday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2020

My aunt is sewing a new yellow cushion for our living room. How talented is she? 1. It doesn’t need a capital letter as it isn’t a particular aunt e. g. Aunt Jane. 2. is sewing 3. new, yellow 4. The comma is needed to separate two adjectives. 5. How talented she is! Wednesday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2020

Even though I detest drinking water, mum insists that I drink two litres a day. 1. Identify the conjunction. 2. Is it a co-ordinating or a subordinating conjunction? 3. Add a missing capital letter. 4. Write two synonyms of the word detest. 5. Re-write with the main clause at the start. Thursday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2020

Even though I detest drinking water, mum insists that I drink two litres a day. 1. Even though 2. subordinating conjunction 3. Mum 4. Various possibilities: hate, dislike etc. . . 5. Mum insists that I drink two litres a day even though I detest drinking water. Thursday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2020

My dad new my mum was upset. He bought her some colourful flowers. 1. Identify a spelling error. 2. Is this sentence in the past or present tense? 3. Join the two main clauses with a co-ordinating conjunction. 4. What word class is ‘colourful’? 5. Write a question you could ask mum. Friday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2020

My dad new my mum was upset. He bought her some colourful flowers. 1. new knew 2. past 3. so 4. adjective 5. Various possibilities: Are you okay? What is wrong? Etc… Friday ©Deepening Understanding LTD 2020