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Grammar is the role of words in the context of language.

English grammar is one of the most complicated of any language. Children absorb grammar from conversations with parents and other adults, but here are some exercises to help reinforce the structures of grammar.

The best way for children to gain grammar skills is continual exposure to language.

Noun Cards:
Nouns name people, places and things.
Noun Card Printout

Demonstration:

Select a card from the noun cards, read the noun aloud and point to the object in the room. This exercise can also be used for English as a Second Language, or learning a second language besides English.

Let your child select as many cards as he or she wants to repeat this activity for, until they understand it.
Noun can have proper nouns, plural nouns, or places on them, as well as objects.

Here are some everyday nouns you can print out, you might want to use colored paper or color them afterwards. If you want the words larger, you can use the same worldist but write them on 3x5 cards of the same color. Also, you can make up your own nouns.

You can also create noun cards for other class projects or subjects, such as farm animals, dinosaurs, space, plants.

Noun Card Exercises:
You can label objects in the classroom with the noun cards created.

Adjective cards:
Adjectives...

Adjectives:
Create sentences using adjectives, articles and nouns, using the word cards.
For example:
The yellow house
The blue house
The big house
The small house
The nice house
A big house
A old house

Grammar Boxes:
Children organize words of a phrase into boxes based on which part of speech the word belongs to: such as: adjective, noun, verb and adverb.

Diagramming Sentences:
Diagram the structure of a sentence into the subject, verb, predicate and modifiers.

Constructing words:
Some words in English are constructed from specific rules, such as participles, plurals,  gerunds and possesives.

Prefixes, postfixes and other modifiers: