Sentence Structure Worksheets
A sentence needs a subject and a predicate, and everything past that is a matter of how many clauses are joined and how. These worksheets start with finding the two halves of a short sentence and end with combining and untangling multi-clause writing.
- Grades
- Grade 1 – Grade 8
- Worksheets
- 11
- Topics
- 8
Topics in sentence structure
- Complete Sentences and Fragments — Grade 1 to Grade 6
Telling a complete sentence from a fragment, and turning a fragment into a sentence.
- Subjects and Predicates — Grade 1 to Grade 6
Splitting a sentence into its complete subject and complete predicate, and finding the simple subject inside it.
- Simple Sentences — Grade 2 to Grade 6
Recognizing a simple sentence as one independent clause, including ones with compound subjects or verbs.
- Compound Sentences — Grade 3 to Grade 8
Joining two independent clauses with a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
- Complex Sentences — Grade 4 to Grade 8
Attaching a dependent clause to an independent one, and punctuating it by where the dependent clause sits.
- Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices — Grade 4 to Grade 8
Spotting run-ons and comma splices, and repairing them by splitting, joining or repunctuating.
- Clauses and Phrases — Grade 6 to Grade 8
Telling an independent clause from a dependent one and a clause from a phrase.
- Four Sentence Types — Grade 2 to Grade 6
Classifying sentences as declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory, with the punctuation each takes.
Any topic on this list can appear for any grade it covers.
Grade 1
All grade 1 worksheets →Grade 2
All grade 2 worksheets →Complete Sentences and Fragments Worksheet — Grade 2
Practice spotting complete sentences and fragments in Grade 2 with this three-part worksheet covering subjects, predicates, and missing parts.
Subjects and Predicates Worksheet — Grade 2
Grade 2 students identify the complete subject, complete predicate, and simple subject in short, everyday sentences on this printable sheet.
Grade 3
All grade 3 worksheets →Grade 4
All grade 4 worksheets →Classifying the Four Sentence Types Worksheet — Grade 4
Grade 4 students practice identifying, punctuating, and writing declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in this focused worksheet.
Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices Worksheet — Grade 4
Practice spotting and fixing run-on sentences and comma splices in this Grade 4 worksheet on sentence structure and joining independent clauses.
Simple Sentences: One Independent Clause — Grade 4
This Grade 4 worksheet drills simple sentences — including those with compound subjects and compound verbs — through four types of practice exercises.
Grade 5
All grade 5 worksheets →Grade 6
All grade 6 worksheets →Clauses and Phrases: Independent vs. Dependent — Grade 6
Grade 6 worksheet that develops skills in identifying independent clauses, dependent clauses, and phrases within complex sentences and fixing fragments.
Compound Sentences: Comma and Coordinating Conjunction — Grade 6
Grade 6 grammar worksheet that drills joining two independent clauses with a comma and a coordinating conjunction to form compound sentences.
Grade 8
All grade 8 worksheets →What is published under sentence structure
Eleven sentence structure worksheets are published, covering eight of the eight topics in this skill and written for grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, grade 6 and grade 8. Between them they come to 162 questions and 88 ruled lines.
Sentence Structure spans grade 1 to grade 8 across its topic list, which is wider than most single skills — complete sentences and fragments, subjects and predicates and simple sentences sit at different ends of it. A topic's grade range is where a dedicated sheet is still worth printing, not where the idea is first mentioned.
How a sentence structure sheet works
Five question types appear across these sheets — 11 × identify, 8 × rewrite, 7 × write your own, 7 × fill in the blank and 6 × multiple choice — and no single sheet uses all of them. Each moves from spotting the rule to applying it, so a student who has memorised the wording of the rule and nothing else runs out of road before the last part.
33 rule statements are printed across the set, in a box above the questions rather than assumed from a lesson last week. Altogether a student reads about 2513 words to work through every sentence structure sheet here; the longest single one is Complex Sentences: Dependent Clauses and Punctuation at 20 questions, against a target of 20 for its grade.
These sit in the recognition, application and analysis bands. Every sheet prints its answer key on a separate page so it can be handed out without one, in black and white, with no account and no watermark.