3rd grade Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences Worksheets

Great Grammar: Compound Sentences

This compound sentences worksheet will get your child to review the concept. Try this compound sentences worksheet to help your child build grammar skills.

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Work on Writing: Run-On Sentences

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Work on Writing: Run-On Sentences

Combat bad writing habits with this grammar worksheet. It teaches kids to identify run-on sentences and rewrite them correctly.

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Practicing Complex Sentences

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Practicing Complex Sentences

Students can use this worksheet to review what a complex sentence is, and how to write one. Then, they will practice writing 10 complex sentences of their own!

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Beginning, Middle, End

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Beginning, Middle, End

This three-part series of writing prompts will reinforce story structure and creativity in your child's writing.

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Expanding Sentences: Let’s Get Complex!

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Expanding Sentences: Let’s Get Complex!

Use this resource to practice taking simple sentences and expanding them by adding subordinating conjunctions.

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Text Message Language

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Text Message Language

Turn text messages full of abbreviated language and lacking punctuation into proper English.

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Adjectives to Describe a Hero

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Adjectives to Describe a Hero

This adjective exercise will prepare kids for writing and reading nonfiction stories about real-life heroes.

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Perfect Punctuation: Commas in Compound Sentences

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Perfect Punctuation: Commas in Compound Sentences

Give your third grader extra comma practice with this worksheet that asks her to combine two sentences into one using a comma.

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Compound Sentence Practice

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Compound Sentence Practice

What happens when you want to fit more than one idea into a sentence? Instead of writing two sentences, write a compound sentence. Ask your students to practice writing compound sentences with this worksheet.

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Compound Sentences with Sentence Frames

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Compound Sentences with Sentence Frames

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of writing compound sentences to show relationships between two independent clauses. Your students will write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames.

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Great Grammar: Compound Predicate

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Great Grammar: Compound Predicate

Learning about compound predicates is easy with this straightforward grammar sheet.

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Identifying Sentences: At the Beach!

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Identifying Sentences: At the Beach!

This multiple-choice sentence practice sheet gives kids a chance to show off their grammar knowledge by identifying different types of sentences.

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First Person

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First Person

Understanding first person narrative is important for every student to master! Grasp the concept of first person with the help of this worksheet.

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Work on Writing: Sentence Fragments

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Work on Writing: Sentence Fragments

This worksheet will give your child the practice he needs to identify sentence fragments and rewrite them as complete sentences.

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Quotation Mark Practice

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Quotation Mark Practice

Help your third grader learn how to use quotation marks with this worksheet that asks him to place quotes where they're needed.

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Abstract Nouns Practice

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Abstract Nouns Practice

This worksheet will help young writers get creative with abstract nouns and learn how they differ from concrete nouns.

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Story Elements in Sentences

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Story Elements in Sentences

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

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Expanding Sentences with Coordinating Conjunctions

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Expanding Sentences with Coordinating Conjunctions

This resource gives your students practice expanding sentences, which is an important skill for young writers.

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Third Person Narrative

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Third Person Narrative

Third person narrative is the most commonly used point of view in writing. Introduce your child to the concept of third person narrative with this worksheet.

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Conjunctions #1

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Conjunctions #1

Conjunctions are words that link different parts of a sentence! Help your child learn to identify this part of speech in some sample sentences.

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Describe Character Actions with Subjects, Verbs, and Objects

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Describe Character Actions with Subjects, Verbs, and Objects

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

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Commas in a Sentence

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Commas in a Sentence

Get familiar with commas in this worksheet all about non-identifying clauses! Your kid will use commas to offset the non-identifying clauses on this worksheet.

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