Grammar Picnic
By grade
Grade 4 grammar
12 topics · 36 weeks of daily practice · a workbook
What Grade 4 introduces, by the Common Core Language standards; the earlier grades’ topics come back for review.
Topics introduced in Grade 4
12 topics- Relative clausesFind the relative clause. The kittens that the puppy chases are soft.
- Progressive tensesChoose the right word. The friends ____ laughing.
- Helping verbsFind the helping verb. The moon will rise.
- Can, may, mustChoose the word for asking "am I allowed to". ____ I pat the dog?
- Order of adjectivesChoose the right order. The girl reads the boy's ____ books.
- Prepositional phrasesFind the prepositional phrase. The elephant walked at sunset.
- Needed words and extra wordsFind the extra words. The sentence still works without them. The girl dances well.
- Fragments and run-onsComplete sentence, fragment, or run-on? Scratches its ears.
- His, her, its, theirChoose the right word. The boys beat ____ drums.
- Capital lettersFix the capital letters. were the knives sharp?
- Quotation marksFix the sentence. Dan said "The melon was juicy."
- Commas in compound sentencesAdd the missing comma. Dad chopped wood so he was tired.
Daily grammar practice
36 weeksWorkbook
24 lessonsReview from the earlier grades
50 topics- Nouns and verbs
- Pronouns: he, she, it, they
- Describing words
- Adverbs
- Describing words from verbs
- Sort nouns, verbs and adjectives
- Irregular plurals
- Plurals: -s, -es, -ies
- Irregular past tense
- Regular past tense: -ed
- Past, present, future
- Subject-verb agreement
- Agreement in longer sentences
- Subjects and objects
- Pronouns that match their noun
- Every, each, all
- Two subjects joined by and
- Comparatives and superlatives
- as ... as
- And, but, so, because
- When, before, after, if, although
- Simple, compound, complex
- Subjects and predicates
- Possessives with 's
- Collective nouns
- Reflexive pronouns
- Looks, feels, sounds
- Active and passive
- What comes after the verb
- Same meaning
- Combining sentences
- Contractions: don't, she's
- Common and proper nouns
- Do, does, did
- There is, there are
- He or him, they or them
- One word instead
- a or an
- a and the
- Many, a few, a little
- Prepositions of place
- In, on, at for time
- Statements and questions
- Who, what, where, when, why, how
- Short answers
- Which and whose
- Commands and exclamations
- Choose the combined sentence
- End marks
- Commas in a series