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Grammar Detective Worksheet

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Grammar Detective Worksheet

Detective with magnifying glass

🕵️ Detective Instructions

Your mission: Find and mark different word types in each sentence!

🔍 Circle all the nouns (people, places, things)
📏 Underline all the verbs (action words)
📦 Put a box around all the adjectives (describing words)
⭐ Draw a star above all the adverbs (words that describe verbs)

Example: The big dog ran quickly through the park.

Answer: The (big) (dog) ran quickly through the (park).

🔍 Grammar Detective Practice

1. The happy children played loudly in the colourful playground.
2. A small bird sang beautifully from the tall tree.
3. The excited students worked carefully on their difficult homework.
4. My grandmother baked delicious cookies yesterday in her warm kitchen.
5. The brave firefighter climbed quickly up the long ladder.

✏️ Detective Challenge

6. Write your own sentence with at least one noun, one verb, one adjective, and one adverb. Then mark each word type using the detective rules above!
My sentence: _________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
7. Count how many of each word type you found in sentences 1-5:

Nouns: _______ Verbs: _______ Adjectives: _______ Adverbs: _______

8. Which sentence was the trickiest to solve? Why?

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