CKLA Mid-Year Grammar Quiz, Grade 3

Read the sentence carefully and choose the words that are nouns.

The plate of steaming pasta and meatballs smells wonderful.

• steaming, meatballs, wonderful

• plate, pasta, meatballs

• plate, smells, wonderful

• steaming, plate, meatballs

Read the sentence carefully and choose the words that are adjectives.

The pink donuts taste sweet and yummy

• donuts, sweet, yummy

• pink, taste, yummy

• pink, sweet, yummy

• donuts, taste, yummy

Read the sentences carefully and choose the words that are verbs.

My family watches the speedy jets at the airport. We stroll up and down the corridors before our flight. Finally, we board the airplane.

• speedy, stroll, flight

• watches, stroll, board

• family, airport, airplane

• airport, corridors, board

Choose the sentence that has the vertical line correctly placed between the subject and the predicate.

• Emily and Pedro | play video games together.

• Emily | and Pedro play video games together

• Emily and Pedro play | video games together.

• Emily and Pedro play video | games together.

Choose the sentence that has the vertical line correctly placed between the subject and the predicate.

• The colorful kite flew | high in the bright, blue sky.

• The colorful kite flew high | in the bright, blue sky.

• The colorful kite | flew high in the bright, blue sky.

• The colorful | kite flew high in the bright, blue sky.

Choose the group of words that is a complete sentence.

• Humans are vertebrates.

• Jason and John.

• Is sweet and tasty.

• The dark, looming clouds.

Choose the group of words that is a fragment.

• Sammy is my best friend in the whole world.

• My pet goldfish is bright orange.

• Adventures in Light and Sound is a great book!

• Sang all day.

Change the fragment into a complete sentence.

my sister and her friend

• My sister and her friend.

• My sister and her friend went to the mall.

• Mom, my sister and her friend.

• My sister's friend.

Change this fragment into complete sentence:

ran around the block

• Suzie ran around the block.

• Ran around the block today.

• Ran around under a table.

• Block ran around.

Read the sentence carefully and choose the adjective that describes a noun.

Jack collects stamps for his huge collection.

• collects

• huge

• collection

• stamps