Four Ways to Practise Grammar
- Build the sentence. The words of a sentence are mixed up on tiles. Tapping them back into order trains word order: where the describing words go, where “yesterday” or “at the park” fits, and how a question is put together. Where more than one order is correct, every correct order is accepted.
- Capitals and full stops. The sentence is shown in small letters. Your child taps every word that needs a capital letter, then picks a full stop or a question mark. Names, places, days, months, festivals and the word “I” all come up.
- Word types. “Tap all the nouns.” Finding every noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, adverb, preposition or conjunction in a real sentence is the quickest way to make the names stick.
- Choose the right word. One gap, three or four choices, like the grammar questions in school papers: a or an, is or are, was or were, the right tense, who or which, neither…nor, question tags and more.
How to Use This Page
- Pick the school year and an activity, then the number of questions, and press Start.
- Answer and press Check. A wrong answer shows the correct sentence and the rule behind it.
- Fix the ones you missed at the end of the round. The same questions come back so your child can put the rule straight into practice.
Grammar by Level
| Level | Sentences and word types | Choose the right word |
|---|---|---|
| P1 | Sentences of 4–7 words; nouns and verbs | a/an, is/are, am, plurals, he/she/they, in/on/under, this/that |
| P2 | 5–8 words; adds adjectives | was/were, has/have, simple past, and/but/because, bigger/biggest, my/his/their |
| P3 | 6–10 words; adds pronouns and adverbs | present continuous, irregular past, everyone/each, at/on/in for time, quick/quickly |
| P4 | 7–12 words; adds prepositions and conjunctions | perfect tenses, subject-verb agreement, who/which/whose, a few/a little |
| P5 | 8–13 words | neither…nor, either…or, conditionals, connectors, gerunds and infinitives |
| P6 | 9–14 words | PSLE-style: question tags, passive voice, a number of / the number of, prepositions after adjectives |
Common Grammar Mistakes in Primary School
The same few mistakes turn up again and again in school compositions and grammar papers. Each one has a quick check your child can learn.
- Agreeing with the wrong noun. “The box of pencils are on the desk” is wrong, because the subject is the box, not the pencils. Cover the words between the subject and the verb, then read it again: “The box … is on the desk.”
- Each and every. “Each of the boys”, “everyone” and “every boy and girl” all take a singular verb: each of the boys was given a certificate.
- Mixing up tenses in a story. A story told in the past stays in the past: “She opened the door and sees a cat” should be “and saw a cat”.
- A few and a little. Use “a few” with things you can count (a few stickers) and “a little” with things you cannot (a little milk). Without the “a”, few and little mean “not enough”.
- Despite and although. “Although” is followed by a whole clause (although it rained), “despite” by a noun or an -ing word (despite the rain, despite studying hard).
- Missing capitals on names. Children remember the capital at the start of a sentence but forget it on days, months, festivals and places in the middle: on Saturday, in June, at Deepavali, to Sentosa.
Every one of these comes up in the activities above, and a wrong answer shows the rule straight away, so your child meets the check at the moment it matters.
Tips for Parents and Teachers
- Read the sentence aloud. After building or fixing a sentence, reading it aloud catches most mistakes, because a wrong order or a wrong word sounds wrong.
- Ask “Who or what is doing it?” For was/were or is/are, find the subject first. In “The box of pencils ___ on the desk”, the subject is the box, so it is “is”.
- Use the test for nouns and verbs. If you can put “the” or “a” in front of it, it is probably a noun. If you can put “I” or “they” in front and it makes sense, it is probably a verb.
- Keep it short. Ten questions a day is plenty. Pair it with the reading comprehension page and the spelling test maker for a full English workout.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A noun names a person, place, animal or thing (Mei, school, cat, ball). A verb is an action or doing word (run, eat, jumped). An adjective describes a noun (big, red, happy). In “The small dog barked”, dog is the noun, barked is the verb and small is the adjective.
Use a capital letter at the start of every sentence, for the word I, and for the names of people, places, days, months, festivals and organisations, such as Arjun, Singapore, Monday, June, Deepavali and the National Library.
Start at your child’s school year. P1 works on short sentences, nouns and verbs, a and an, and is and are. Each level adds more: adjectives and past tense in P2, pronouns and adverbs in P3, prepositions and conjunctions from P4, and PSLE-style grammar such as subject-verb agreement, relative pronouns and question tags in P5 and P6.
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