English Language 1 Grade 6

A. Complete the table:

B. Fill in an appropriate pronoun.

Sandy went to the park with _________________ mother and father. ________________ ran

on the lawn. Then ______________ father pushed _____________on the swings while

__________________ mother smiled and watched. ___________ spread out a blanket on the

lawn and read a book while Sandy and ______________ father played catch with a ball. Sandy

threw ________ too hard, and ____________ father had to chase after __________. Sandy did

some somersaults, rolling forward on ______________ head and kicking _______________ feet

up over ________________ head. _____________giggled and lay on the grass until

_____________ dad came back. All three of ____________ate sandwiches

together before ___________________ went back home.

C. Circle the verb that best fits:

1. Mrs. Merit will (teach, taught) us to do subtraction.

2. He came from a poor immigrant family and (growed, grew) up in Chicago.

3. An e-mail hoax posing as a virus advisory (is, are, am) surfing across the Internet.

4. The sly squirrel (stealed, stole) seeds from the bird feeder.

5. The roses (is, are, am) in blossom this month.

Parts of Speech 2: Complete the activities

SENTENCE WORD TYPE OF NOUN

The main hallway of the Sternwood Place was

two stories high.

hallway

Sternwood Place

In the front of the garage, a young chauffeur in

shiny black leggings, all happiness, dusting a

maroon BMW 320i.

Above the doors, which would have let in

a troop of elephants, there was a broad panel

showing a knight in dark armour. The shining of

his sword almost blinding.

English Language 2 Grade 6

Helping verbs: fill in the correct verb on the line.

1. Mary and Larry ________ helping Mr Anderson.

2. Trudy ________ bake the cakes yesterday.

3. Lori ________ clean her room tonight.

4. Will you ________ planting spinach in the vegetable garden?

5. She ________ overcome all the obstacles ahead of her.

D. Describe the noun:

E. Directions: Read the sentence, then read the question. Write

the adverb on the line.

1. The kids go everywhere to skate. Where do the kids go to skate? ______________

2. There is a skate park nearby. Where is the skate park? ______________

3. You should not skate inside. Where should you not skate? ______________

Sort the following words into the correct column:

MONEY Positive: Negative:

Comparative:

soon now somewhere carefully nowhere easily gladly

much lastly aforementioned happily tomorrow

seldom very always

...of time ...of place … of manner ...of number ...of degree ...of frequency

English Language 3 Grade 6

F. Using the map below, fill in the missing prepositions.

1. The school is _________________ the theatre.

2. The hospital is _________________ the supermarket car park.

3. The Korean restaurant is _________________ the bank and the library.

4. The _________________ is behind me.

5. Palm street and Lane street are _________________ to each other.

6. The art gallery is _________________ Queen avenue.

7. From the vet, I have to walk _________________ the aquarium to get to the Italian

restaurant.

8. To learn about things of the past I must go _________________ the _________________.

9. _________________ the phone booth I will be _________________ the hotel and town hall.

10._________________ the club is the church and the _________________.

G. Fill in an appropriate interjection.

English Language 4 Grade 6

H. Identify the conjunction in each sentence and state

which type of conjunction it is.

Example: Jack painted the bathroom and the hallway. and, coordinating conjunction

1. Although the car was new, it did not work very well. _________________________________

2. After Kyle refused the salad served with the meal, he then would not touch the green

vegetables put on his plate. ____________________________________________________

3. Whether I stay home or not I still have to wash my hair. _____________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

4. I have to clean my own shoes whenever I dirty them. _______________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

5. At a red light, Maria jumped out of Martin's car and slammed the door, for she could not

tolerate one more minute of the heavy metal music that he insisted on blasting from the stereo.

____________________________________________________________________________

I. Write in your own words what the 2 different types of

articles are.

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

Name the part of speech of the underlined word:

1. The worst teacher quickly gave the students homework.

____________________________________________________________________________

2. Hey! Be, careful, my phone is under your chair!

____________________________________________________________________________

3. The records indicate that the first fight with boxing gloves was fought in 1818 in France.

____________________________________________________________________________

4. "Ordinarily, I would not leave so soon, but I have so much to do," he told his host.

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

5. Oh, she and young John walk to school slowly!

____________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

English Language 5 Grade 6

Crossword puzzle:

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Across

4 Names a person, place or thing. (boy, ball)

7 A short exclamation. (Hi!, Ouch!)

8 Substitutes a noun or a noun phrase to show

another name for a person, place or thing. (he,

whom)

9 The part of speech that describes a verb,

adjective or adverb. (very, rapidly)

Down

1 Describes a noun.

2 A word that joins two parts of a sentence.

3 A word that connects a noun or pronoun to

another word in the sentence. (before, into)

5 A word that is put next to a noun.

6 An action word.

English Language 6 Grade 6

A. Nouns - Complete the table:

B. Pronouns - Fill in an appropriate pronoun.

Sandy went to the park with her mother and father. She / They ran on the lawn. Then her father

pushed her on the swings while her mother smiled and watched. She spread out a blanket on the

lawn and read a book while Sandy and her father played catch with a ball. Sandy threw hers/ it

too hard, and her father had to chase after it. Sandy did some somersaults, rolling

forward on her head and kicking her feet up over her head. She giggled and lay on the grass until

her dad came back. All three of them ate sandwiches together before they went back home.

C. Verbs - Circle the verb that best fits:

1. Mrs. Merit will (teach, taught) us to do subtraction.

2. He came from a poor immigrant family and (growed, grew) up in Chicago.

3. An e-mail hoax posing as a virus advisory (is, are, am) surfing across the Internet.

4. The sly squirrel (stealed, stole) seeds from the bird feeder.

5. The roses (is, are, am) in blossom this month.

MEMO

SENTENCE WORD TYPE OF NOUN

The main hallway of the Sternwood Place was

two stories high.

hallway

Sternwood Place

Common noun

Proper noun

In the front of the garage, a young chauffeur in

shiny black leggings , all happiness, dusting a

maroon BMW 320i.

garage

chauffeur

leggings

happiness

BMW 320i

Common noun

Common noun

Common noun

Abstract noun

Proper noun

Over the doors, which would have let in

a troop of elephants, there was a broad panel

showing a knight in dark armour. The shining of

his sword almost blinding.

doors

troop of elephants

panel

knight

armour

shining

sword

Common noun

Collective noun

Common noun

Common noun

Common noun

Gerund

Common noun

English Language 7 Grade 6

Helping verbs: fill in the correct verb on the line.

1. Mary and Larry are helping Mr Anderson.

2. Trudy had to/needed to bake the cakes yesterday.

3. Lori can/will/must clean her room tonight.

4. Will you be planting spinach in the vegetable garden?

5. She will overcome all the obstacles ahead of her.

D. Adjectives - Describe the noun:

Positive:

happy, fortunate, comfortable, bountiful, content, sufficient, cheerful, wealthy

Negative:

greedy, dishonest, materialistic, wicked, obsessed, poaching, ungrateful, sly, poor, needy

Comparative:

lots - more - the most little - less - least

wealthy - wealthier—wealthiest happy - happier - happiest

E. Adverbs - Directions: Read the sentence. Then read the question. Write the adverb on the line.

1. The kids go everywhere to skate. Where do the kids go to skate? Everywhere

2. There is a skate park nearby. Where is the skate park? Nearby

3. You should not skate inside. Where should you not skate? Inside

Sort the following words into the correct column:

...of time ...of place … of manner ...of number ...of degree ...of frequency

soon

tomorrow

nowhere

somewhere

carefully

easily

gladly

lastly

aforementioned

much

very

now

seldom

always

English Language 8 Grade 6

F. Prepositions - Using the map below, fill in the missing prepositions.

1. The school is next to the theatre.

2. The hospital is opposite the supermarket car park.

3. The Korean restaurant is between the bank and the library.

4. The park is behind me.

5. Palm street and Lane street are parallel to each other.

6. The art gallery is in Queen avenue.

7. From the vet, I have to walk past the aquarium to get to the Italian restaurant.

8. To learn about things of the past I must go to the museum.

9. At the phone booth I will be between the hotel and town hall.

10. Next to the club is the church and the hospital.

H. Interjection - Fill in an appropriate interjection.

I. Conjunction - Identify the conjunction in each sentence, state which type of conjunction it is.

Example: Jack painted the bathroom and the hallway. and, coordinating conjunction

1. Although the car was new, it did not work very well. Although, subordinating conjunction

2. After Kyle refused the salad served with the meal, he then would not touch the green

vegetables put on his plate. After, subordinating conjunction

3. Whether I stay home or not I still have to wash my hair. Whether...or, correlative conjunction

4. I have to clean my own shoes whenever I dirty them. Whenever, subordinating

5. At a red light, Maria jumped out of Martin's car and slammed the door, for she could not

tolerate one more minute of the heavy metal music that he insisted on blasting from the

stereo. For, coordinating conjunction

J. Articles - Write in your words what the 2 different types of articles are.

Articles signal that a noun will follow. Definite article is “the” and indefinite articles are “a” and

“an”

Die! Huff!

Hooray! Oops!

Ah! Yeah!

English Language 9 Grade 6

Name the part of speech of the underlined word:

1. The worst teacher quickly gave the students homework.

worst = comparative adjective, gave = verb

2. Hey! Be, careful, my phone is under your chair!

Hey! = interjection, is = aux verb, under = preposition

3. The records indicate that the first fight with boxing gloves was fought in 1818 in France.

The = definite article, first = adjective—describing the fight, boxing = adjective—describing the gloves

4. "Ordinarily, I would not leave so soon, but I have so much to do," he told his host.

Ordinarily = adverb of manner, but = coordinating conjunction, he = pronoun

5. Oh, she and young John walk to school slowly!

Oh = interjection, she = pronoun, and = conjunction, young = adjective, John = proper

noun, walk = verb, to = preposition, school = common noun, slowly = adverb of manner

CROSSWORD:

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