WENSLEY FOLD CE PRIMARY ACADEMY
GRAMMAR BASELINE
YEAR 6
Name:
Date:
1. Colour the common nouns red.
Colour the proper nouns blue.
Colour the collective nouns green.
table
Mount Everest
gaggle
mountain
swarm
hat
flock
February
Teacher
Queen Elizabeth
10 marks
2. Pronouns
Circle the pronouns in these sentences:
 Grandma’s potatoes are huge. They are much bigger than ours.
2 marks
 Sidra’s hair is amazing, she spends hours styling it every morning.
3. Forms of Verbs
Do these sentences have imperative (im), interrogative (in), active (a) or
conditional (c) verbs in them?
If it rains I’m not going.
Climb onto the tree branch.
Will it snow tomorrow?
4 marks
I wore my best clothes for the party.
Page total
16 marks
1
4. Active and Passive Verbs
Change this sentence from active to passive:
I broke the window of the greenhouse.
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Change this sentence from passive to active:
The dog was taken for a walk along the river.
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2 marks
5. Put one letter in each box to show the word class.
noun
A
verb
B
adjective adverb
C
D
The largest cat was clearly the cutest.
4 marks
6. Write an adjective in each box to complete the description.
The sky was
and a few
and
. It was
flakes of snow were beginning to fall.
Suddenly out of the gloom a
figure appeared,
hurrying down the road . The figure was
. It was wearing a
and
,
,
cloak.
9 marks
Page total
15 marks
2
7. Complete these using plurals:
Onto his ark Noah took: two
two
, two
other animals.
At the market there were lots of things to buy
,
things.
,
and lots of
,
and many other
6 marks
8. Rewrite these sentences to include the adverb shown in the brackets.
Where should it be added for best effect? (Beginning, middle or end?)
The princess moved across the room. (gracefully)
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He hid the letters under a book. (hurriedly)
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2 marks
9. Add a prepositional phrase to show where these events happened.
 The car drove ________________________________________
 Atif fell _____________________________________________
Add a prepositional phrase to show when these events happened.
 ____________________________________went to the cinema.
 _________________________________________all was quiet.
10. Cause and effect connectives.
Complete the sentences to show what might happen.
4 marks
 The lions had not eaten for some time. Because of this ______
___________________________________________________.
 The handles on the bag were not very strong. Therefore_____
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Page total
2 marks
3
14 marks
11. Use a conjunction to compete these complex sentences:
unless
as
although
because
when
since
 The old man continued on his way __________________ it was
getting dark.
 Everyone rushed towards the river __________________ the
fire spread out of control.
 We could not have golden time __________________ all the
3 marks
work was completed on time.
12. Word Order
Arrange these words and phrases to make two different versions of the
same sentence.
he strode
purposefully
through the town
2 marks
13. Me or I?
My friend and
played on the swings.
and my Dad went swimming.
The dog followed
all the way home.
3 marks
14. Rewrite the underlined words in the past tense.
Johnston crosses
in from Liddell. It bounces
from the left. A shot comes
off a defender. Liddell fires
the ball back towards goal, but the goalkeeper saves
5 marks
it easily.
Page total
13 marks
4
15. Circle the words in the sentence which should have a capital letter.
i went on holiday to spain with my brother s tom and ben.
For one of the words you identified explain why it needs a capital letter.
Word chosen
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________5 marks
16. Check the verbs in these sentences.
Put a tick if the verb is right; put a cross if the verb is wrong.
I plays for the school team.
You have five more minutes.
We was very happy.
They is my friends.
He were silly.
I have money to spend.
6 marks
17. Circle the clause in these sentences:
In the morning the teacher was furious with the class.
Only the other day a boy slipped over in the corridor.
2 marks
18. Add inverted commas and punctuation to this sentence:
Can we follow our footstep back through the forest asked Jim
4 marks
19. Circle the articles in this sentence:
At the circus I saw a tightrope walker and an escape artist.
A or an?
hospital
hour
umbrella
alligator
garage
3 marks
5 marks
Page total
25 marks
5
20. Read the complex sentences and colour the main clause red and the
subordinate clause blue.
When the bell rang, everyone went to assembly.
Carrying it carefully, put the cake into the oven.
The hamster raced up her leg, clinging onto her trousers.
Add a subordinate clause to these main clauses:
With her knees shaking, ______________________________
As everyone cheered, ________________________________
5 marks
21. Adjective or Adverb?
Tick the correct box:
Adjective
Adverb
lovely
greatly
funny
gracefully
4 marks
22. Draw a line to add the most likely punctuation to the sentence:
Wow
We lined up by the door to look at the stars
Who saw the biggest star
?
!
.
3 marks
23. Has the apostrophe been used for omission or possession?
Apostrophe
for omission
Apostrophe
for possession
Peter’s the best football player.
It wasn’t a good day to swim.
Suzie’s cake was the best.
3 marks
Page total
15 marks
6
24. Tick the word closest in meaning to the word ‘leapt’.
The cat leapt over the wall.
hissed
hid
hopped
jumped
1 mark
25. Add a prefix to make these the opposite:
organised
honest
kind
3 marks
26. Add brackets in the correct place in these sentences:
The sheep escaped from the field there was a gap in the
fence.
Tom a farmer had lost all of his sheep except one.
2 marks
27. Colon or Semi Colon?
I need these ingredients for my cake
eggs, butter and sugar.
1 mark
28. Tick a box to show where the comma should go:
After
house.
Tom
went to the swimming baths
he visited his cousins
1 mark
29. Put a tick in each row to show whether the underlined part of the
sentence is a phrase or a clause.
Phrase
Clause
We went to the seaside so we could paddle
in the sea.
The wind blew through the deep, dark
forest.
3 marks
Page total
11 marks
7
30. Read the sentence below. Replace the word joyous with another
word with a similar meaning.
Write the word in the box.
Sally was joyous after winning the art competition.
1 mark
Page total
1 mark
8
Page
1
Total
Out of
16
2
15
3
14
4
13
5
25
6
15
7
11
8
1
Total
110
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