Year 3 SPaG

revision

UnderstandUse a coordinating conjunction to complete these sentences. Use a different one each time.

1) I have a pencil it is blunt.

2) My uncle is American his wife is French.

3) It has stopped raining

we can go outside.

Complete these sentences.

1) Shall we take the train or

2) He was running very fast but

3) Danny was supposed to tidy up his room so

4) Sid visited his friend and

5) Since David broke his leg he could not drive a car nor

6) Daisy had been practising the violin for years yet

7) We waited for the postman, for

Fill in the missing spaces

with prepositions.

1) My aunt has always lived

a lot of cats.

2) Bina will start her new job

Monday.

3) I want to visit Spain I am older.

Complete these sentences.

1) I want to watch the football match with

2) I like to keep my old comics in

3) Can you wake me up when

4) My dad is originally from

5) The cat was hiding under

Complete these sentences in the present perfect.

1) I have

2) We have not

Complete these sentences in the present perfect tense using the verbs in the boxes.

You the last piece of cake. (eat)

Eric a game for us to play with. (bring)

You enough work for today. (do)

Ever since I ate that pie, I ill. (feel)

Add a subordinate clause to these sentences. Remember to punctuate your sentences accurately.

1) The dog chased the cat.

2) You will be late for school.

Rewrite this conversation so that the sentences include speech marks.

Hello. Have you seen any cheese in the kitchen?

You’ll chase me, won’t you?

Come in and have a look.

Add a prefix to these sentences.

1) I got my favourite singer’s

graph.

2) At the market, we got

some cat food.

3) We jogged around the field in an

clockwise direction.

Write a possible subheading above each of the following paragraph starters.

1) The robots which will help us in the future...

2) When astronauts next land on the moon in 2024...

3) The sea-side town of Clacton-on-Sea has...

4) It is very important that fire-alarms are tested every...

Add a subordinating conjunction to complete each sentence.

Use a different conjunction in each sentence.

1) Brush your teeth you go to bed.

2) I will wash the dishes you sweep

the floor.

3) I like to visit the museum I

am in town.

4) Leave the pizza in the oven

it is golden brown.

5) it is raining, we will

visit the beach.

Complete these sentences.

1) I would not go outside until

2) Remember to take the rubbish out before

3) Our dog always barks whenever

4) I will call you as soon as

5) Jerry didn’t want to go to the shop because

Use an adverb to describe each of these verbs.

eat

type

pain

sing

swim

drink

Can you change these sentences from the simple past tense to the present perfect tense?

Tip: Remember, sentences written in the present perfect tense use the word ‘has’ or ‘have’.

1) Sanchay finished painting the fence.

run

talk

wait

read

jump

cough

2) I walked to school today.

3) The class tidied up the classroom.

4) The dog ate its food.

Add a main clause to these sentences. Remember to punctuate your sentences accurately.

1) Whenever I visit my uncle’s house,

2) Even though it was cold,

3) Until the trains are working again,

Can you make three other words using each of these root words?

1) walk: , ,

2) play : , ,

3) write: ,

,

Use the words a or an in the sentences below.

1) We saw angry lion at the zoo.

2) We waited for hour in traffic.

3) Curry is favourite meal of mine.

Challenge Look at each picture. Write two sentences about each one. Each of your sentences should include the SPaG feature that is shown in blue above the writing space.

Adverb

Inverted commas

Preposition

Subordinating conjunction

Coordinating conjunction

Present perfect

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Explain

In your own words, explain the difference between a main clause and a subordinate clause.

In your own words, explain what extra detail adverbs give

the reader.

In your own words, explain what extra detail a preposition gives the reader.

In your own words explain when I would use ‘an’ in front of a noun instead of ‘a’.

TestCircle all of the conjunctions in the sentences below.

1) The train was broken but I was able to catch a bus.

2) I dropped my food on the floor so I had to cook another meal

3) The weather forecast said there would be rain yet it stayed sunny all day long.

4) I will bring in the washing if it starts to rain

5) Leave the model on the shelf until the glue has dried.

6) The bus can leave once everybody is aboard.

7) Dylan was not hungry because she had eaten a large

breakfast.

Tick all of the sentences that contain prepositions.

I am tired and hungry.

Under the water I could see lots of brightly coloured fish.

The old newspapers needed to be recycled.

We went to the cinema after we had eaten.

We saw a great film at the cinema.

Which of these sentences is written in the

present perfect tense? Tick one.

Mike likes to play basketball.

Tom is very interested in trains.

Polly baked a lovely cake for mum’s birthday.

I have fixed the broken door.

Tick one box to show whether the underlined section of

each sentence is a main clause or subordinate clause.

After we went to the supermarket, I made an apple pie.

I met Martin in Clacton where he has lived since he was a teenager.

While he slept, Dad snored.

Our cat, who had spent most of the day asleep on the sofa, woke up and looked for food.

Main clause

Subordinate clause

For each sentence, add in the missing inverted commas.

1) I think, Peter said, that we are too late to

catch the train.

2) Because it is raining, I think we should play a

game inside, Mia suggested.

3) Come on, Mum insisted, we’re going to be late.

4) With a croaky voice David said, I don’t think I’ll be

able to sing at the concert tomorrow.

5) Stop that at once! Dad said marching into the room.

6) Well, Sheila sighed, breakfast is burnt again.

7) With a wide grin on his face, Henry called out, Look! The

circus is here!

Draw lines to match each prefix to the correct word so that it makes a new word.

anti biography

auto septic

super star

Read the paragraph openings and match them to the correct subheading.

Underline the words that combine together to make the present perfect tense.

1) My sister has borrowed some books from the

library.

2) I have never seen a shooting star.

3) Eric and Phoebe will have finished

cooking soon.

The earliest recorded sighting...

The photograph

Sonar proof The first encounter

On November 12th 1933, a photograph of...

Arthur Grant’s encounter

One moonlit evening, Arthur Grant...

In December 1954, a sonar reading of the loch...

Read these sentences. Tick the boxes to show if the word before has been used as a subordinating conjunction or as a preposition.

Circle one adverb in each of the sentences below.

1) I silently crept out of the empty room.

2) Sleeping on the sofa, my dad snored loudly.

3) Clutching his briefcase, Bert quickly raced for

the train.

4) Henry was named man of the match because

he had accurately passed the ball to his

team mates.

5) If you want to hold the rabbit,

remember to stroke it gently.

6) The crocodile waited patiently by the

water’s edge.

7) I looked sadly at the broken vase.

Underline the verb form that is in the present

perfect in the following paragraph.

One of my favourite writers is Terry Pratchett.

He has written the books “Truckers” and “Only

You Can Save Mankind.” These stories are funny and

exciting.

Circle all of the conjunctions in the sentences below.

1) I raced for shelter as the rain began to fall.

2) My mother wants to buy a pet donkey if she wins the lottery.

3) While my mother was downstairs, I wrapped her present.

4) Dad was upset when he broke his phone.

5) Fred hasn’t used his bike since he broke his leg.

6) Although the park was very crowded, I had a great time.

I want to visit the library before lunchtime.

I tidied up my room before my cousin visited.

I want to finish this book before the end of the day.

'Before' used as a subordinating

conjunction.

'Before' used as a preposition.

Which of these words is not a real member of each word family?

design missign

signature signed

realful realistic

reality unreal

acted acting

actly react

Write two words that belong to each word family.

1) solve: ,

2) regular: ,

3) logic: ,

Write the correct article (a/an) before each noun.

Tick the sentence that is punctuated correctly.

Jack said, "Can we play football

at lunchtime"

Jack said "Can we play football at

lunchtime?"

Jack said ", Can we play football

at lunchtime"?

Jack said, "Can we play football at

lunchtime?"

banana

elephant

basketball

week

tiger

evening

weekend

umbrella

ApplyWhat has happened here?Write a story about this image. Show that you can use as many of these features in your story as possible.

prefixes coordinating conjunctions

subordinating conjunctions adverbs

prepositions inverted commas