Grade 3 Grammar Worksheets
Third grade adds the sentence itself as an object of study: complete sentences against fragments, subjects and predicates, the four sentence types, commas in a series, and the first work on quotation marks.
Nine printable grade 3 grammar worksheets, 108 questions across seven skills. Every sheet prints a rule reminder above the questions and its answer key on a separate page, and none of them needs an account.
What a grade 3 sheet asks for
12 questions per sheet, with the answer key on a separate page.
What is on this page
Nine sheets on this page were written for grade 3 specifically. Sheets for the grade either side are linked separately under Nearby grades and are not counted here. The skills covered, largest first, are Capitalization Rules (3), Sentence Structure (1), Verb Tenses (1), Subject-Verb Agreement (1), Pronoun Usage (1), Punctuation (1) and Comma Rules (1).
Between them the grade 3 sheets come to 108 questions across three question types: 9 × identify, 9 × fill in the blank and 9 × rewrite. 36 ruled lines are printed between them, and that count decides how long a sheet takes far more than the question count does.
The topics a grade 3 sheet covers
Nine distinct topics are covered at grade 3: apostrophes in contractions, commas in a series, days, months and holidays, mixed capitalization review, names and proper nouns, past tense, singular and plural subjects, subject pronouns and subjects and predicates. Each has its own sheet, its own rule box and its own answer key, so none of them is a variation on the one above it.
How a grade 3 sheet asks its questions
Grade 3 sits in the 3-5 band, which this site calls application work. Applying the rule. The student corrects errors, completes sentences, chooses between forms and explains a choice in a few words. Some questions ask for an original sentence that uses the rule.
27 rule statements are printed across the grade 3 sheets, in a box above the questions rather than assumed from a lesson last week — so a sheet tests whether the rule can be applied, not whether it was remembered. Altogether a student reads about 2003 words to work through everything on this page.
Sentences of 8 to 14 words, one or two clauses, vocabulary a 8 to 11 year old meets in class. Subjects may include school topics, simple science and everyday events. That is the reading level these sheets are written to, and it is worth checking against a particular class before printing a set: a sheet pitched right on the grammar and wrong on the reading fails the same child either way.
Skills at this grade
Sentence Structure
All sentence structure →Punctuation
All punctuation →Subject-Verb Agreement
All subject-verb agreement →Verb Tenses
All verb tenses →Capitalization Rules
All capitalization rules →Proper Nouns: Names of People, Pets, and Things — Grade 3
Grade 3 students practice identifying and correcting proper noun capitalization for names of people, pets, and things across three exercise types.
Mixed Capitalization Review Worksheet — Grade 3
Practice applying five capitalization rules at once in this Grade 3 worksheet: sentence beginnings, proper nouns, days, months, places, and the pronoun I.
Days, Months, and Holidays Capitalization — Grade 3
Grade 3 students identify, complete, and correct sentences to practice capitalizing days, months, and holidays while keeping seasons lowercase.
Comma Rules
All comma rules →Pronoun Usage
All pronoun usage →Nearby grades
Written for the grade either side of grade 3 and listed here for a class working just below or just above it. They are not counted in the grade 3 total above.
- Grade 2Common and Proper Nouns Worksheet — Grade 2
- Grade 4Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases Worksheet — Grade 4
- Grade 2Finding Verbs in a Sentence Worksheet — Grade 2
- Grade 4Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices Worksheet — Grade 4
- Grade 2Complete Sentences and Fragments Worksheet — Grade 2
- Grade 4Classifying the Four Sentence Types Worksheet — Grade 4