Grammar

Practice
WORKSHEET

Lee-Ann Labares Kyla D. Fabiantes Ivy Claire Defensor Queen Tien Deyl Shao

Jean Casa

2017
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Worksheet on NOUN

A. Categorizing Nouns

Place each of the nouns listed below in the appropriate column. Many nouns
may be listed in more than one column.

Laptop Pens malls mic lipstick love

pity curtains loath Crew democracy
orchestra theory clan aroma Leontyne Price
Pythagoras Caracas hesitation elation phone lift
Crowd mob pride sheikh flowers anger

Concrete Abstract Proper Collective

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B. Identifying Nouns.

Underline all nouns in the following sentences. Write whether each noun is
concrete (C), abstract (A), proper (P),or collective (CL).

_________1. The audience showed its approval with a standing ovation.

_________2. Mecca is a holy city for all Muslims.

_________3. The ideals of the team were very high.

_________4. The urban designs of architect Lei have won him international acclaim.

_________5. My mother’s adobo is the best.

Worksheet on PRONOUN

A. Identifying Pronouns
Underline all interrogative and relative pronouns in the following
sentences.Write whether each is interrogative (I) or relative (R).

____ 1. Who was the woman that I saw you with at the movies?
____2. The singer for whom the rock opera was written married the director.
____ 3. You should do whatever you think is best.
____4. What is the name of the song that he wrote?

B. Using Relative Pronouns

Combine the following sentences, changing one sentence of each pair to a

subordinate clause. Introduce each subordinate clause with a relative
pronoun.

Example: Some people are glad when winter is over. They do not like cold weather.
People who do not like cold weather are glad when winter is over.

1. Mary McLeod Bethune is a famous black educator. She lived from 1875 to 1955.
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2. In the early part of the twentieth century, Bethune founded a school for girls.The
school eventually merged with a boys’ school and became Bethune-Cookman College.
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3. Bethune worked closely with Franklin D.Roosevelt.She served as the Special Advisor
on Minority Affairs.
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4. Bethune was an observer for the State Department at the UN Conference in 1945.
Bethune had spent many years in public service.
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Worksheet on VERB

Exercise 1

Identify the verb form for each underlined verb: present, past, past participle, or
present participle. Write the answers before the numbers.

1. We all know the story of Christopher Columbus.

2. People in the U.S. even celebrate a holiday in his honor.

3. Columbus went to sea at the age of 14.

4. He moved to Spain in 1485.

5. He had been in Portugal for many years before that move.

6. Columbus had worked as a mapmaker.

7. He thought that he could sail around the world.

8. He was hoping for a grant to sail to the Far East.

9. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain agreed.

10. We have studied about Columbus in class.

Exercise 2

Identify and underline the verb phrase in each sentence.

1. People have praised Columbus as an explorer.

2. She has been called a single-minded entrepreneur by others.

3. Some have considered me a failure.

4. I was looking for a short route to the City Square.

5. He definitely had failed in this goal.

6. Nick did not reach the castle and its riches.

7. Nor did he recognize the importance of his discovery.

8. He had succeeded in an unexpected feat of exploration.

9. What else have you read about Columbus?

10. What do you think of his career?

Exercise 3

Write the past and past participle forms for each verb.

VERB PAST PAST PARTICIPLE

1. Sink
2. Want
3. Give
4. Decide
5. Know
6. Freeze
7. Eat
8. Study
9. Cut
10. Break

Exercise 4

Choose and encircle the correct verb to complete each sentence.

1. (Leave, Let) me tell you about Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan.

2. He (left, let) his name in history for a strange reason.

3. After his first flight at the age of 18 in 1925, he pestered people at the airfield to (learn,
teach) him to fly.

4. After Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic in 1927, Douglas (lay, laid) plans for his
own trip.

5. Douglas worked o (rise, raise) money for a plane.

6. His plane was rickety, and aviation officials would not (let, leave) him fly across the Atlantic
in it.

7. On July 17, 1938, he (sat, set) in the cockpit of his plane.

8. He (sat, set) some chocolate bars. Some fig bars, a quart of water, and a U.S. map down
next to him.

9. As his plane (rose, raised) into the sky, it was scheduled to go to California but it landed 28
hours later in Ireland.

10. Some have (raised, rose) doubts that was a mistake.

Exercise 5

Rewrite the sentences to correct the verbs.

1. I said to my parents, “Leave me go to the air show.”

2. They rose no objections to my going along with my brother.

3. Bill had learned me all about aerial acrobatics.

4. We almost left the house late.

5. My brother forgot where he had lain the tickets.

6. Fortunately they were laying on his desk.

7. When we arrived at the show, we set in the bleachers.

8. Planes rose in the sky, making rolls and climbing.

9. Bill left me get an autograph from one of the pilots.

10. I laid awake all night thinking about the exciting show.
Worksheet on PREPOSITIONS

PREPOSITIONS

A preposition is a word that shows a relationship between a noun (or

pronoun).Prepositions may be divided into prepositions of place and
direction, prepositions of time, and prepositions of position and
movement.

Some common prepositions include: at, on, in, along, round, past,
through, by, before, after, since, for, during, until, from, to, in /into/ out
of, off / on / onto etc.

Prepositions are usually attached with the noun or pronoun. The object of
a preposition is the noun or pronoun that follows the preposition.

A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with a

preposition and ends with the object of the preposition.

I. Underline the preposition in each sentence.

1. I met Ethan at the mall.

2. The book was placed on the shelf.

3. Kansas is in the United States.

4. I’ll be back on Monday.

5. Meet me before lunch time.

6. We’ve been together for three years.

7. We should put this on the wall.

8. My sister is sleeping in the car.

9. The gift is from my mother.

10. He is sitting on his favourite chair.

II. Rewrite each of the sentences and add an appropriate prepositional
phrase from the box below.
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
1. The organization will have a meeting.  On Saturday
2. Arman is reading the book.  Inside the hall
3. My partner and I danced gracefully.  By my sister
 In the library
4. Tami will be celebrating her birthday.  After lunch
5. The musical piece was torn.
III. Match the underlined prepositional phrases with the pictures below. Write
your answer on the blank.
_______1. The brown dog is running towards me.
_______2. I will draw a line across the paper.
_______3. The glass window was broken by the child.
_______4. Justin is running away from me.
_______5.The cat jumped into the box.

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 IV. Identify the object of the preposition in each of the following sentences.
Write your answer on the blank.

_______1.My sister walked her dog across the road.

_______2. She placed the dish on the table.
_______3.The cute dog is hiding under the bed.
_______4.I slept until five o’ clock in the afternoon.

Worksheet on Adjectives

I. Directions: Read and analyze each sentence. On the line provided write the
adjective(s) that appear(s) in each sentence.

_____________1. James ran quickly down the street.

_____________2. We went to visit the famous Mt. Mayon for vacation.
_____________3. The biggest star in our galaxy is the sun.
_____________4. Vanilla is my favorite ice cream flavor.
_____________5. My dancing shoes have a hole in them.
_____________6. The attracting smell of flowers is my favorite smell.
_____________7. Sarah's cat is white and has big claws.
_____________8. I have green pencils in my small pocket
_____________9. I enjoy riding my bike around the park.
____________10. I run in a long marathon.

II. Encircle the adjectives and draw an arrow to the noun it describes.

1. Early people found that dogs made good hunters.

2. This house was built by my grandfather.
3. Jason was a mystery man.
4. Blind people use dogs to guide them through busy streets.
5. Some smart dogs learn to help deaf people.
6. A new supermarket is going to be built next year.
7. The injured man couldn’t walk and had to be carried.
8. Liza trains young and adorable dogs.
9. They took the little white rabbit to a shelter.
10. One famous dog rescued forty lost people in the mountains.
III. Modify the adjectives by telling WHICH ONE, HOW MANY and WHAT KIND.

In the following sentences, underline all the adjectives.

Put a ‘1’ below the word if it tells WHICH ONE.

Put a ‘2’ below the word if it tells HOW MANY.
Put a ‘3’ below the word if it tells WHAT KIND.

Example: These two buko pies are going to Manila.

1 2 3

1. The boy has two skateboards.

2. He has a younger sister.

3. My Mom bought six notebooks at the store.

4. The Manila Zoo has two new elephants.

5. There are four mango trees in the orchard.

6. That little old man is my brother.

7. The brown puppy is very naughty.

8. Ivy saw three bright, shiny stars in the sky.

9. That person ruined my new shoes.

10. Some mango trees need fertilizer to grow.