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Grade 1 English Language Arts — Action words today

Add -s to an action word when one person or thing does it.

Name: ________________________

  1. 1.Which word fits? "He ___ to the park."

    • a) goes
    • b) gos
    • c) go

  2. 2.Fill the gap with one word: "She ___ a song." (sing)

  3. 3.Match each action word to its -s form.

    • eat
    • play
    • go
    • cry
    • plays
    • cries
    • eats
    • goes

  4. 4.Which sentence is right?

    • a) My friend play cricket.
    • b) My friend plays cricket.

  5. 5.Sort each sentence by how many are doing it.

    Groups: One does it · More than one do it

    • The bird sings.
    • My dogs bark.
    • The birds sing.
    • The girls read.
    • The girl reads.
    • My dog barks.

  6. 6.Put the words in order to make a sentence.

    • every
    • sings
    • day.
    • The
    • bird

  7. 7.Sort each one by the action word that goes with it.

    Groups: sing · sings

    • they
    • I
    • the boys
    • he
    • the girl
    • we

  8. 8.Add -s to this word: "run"

Answer key — Grade 1 English Language Arts — Action words today

  1. 1. a) goes
  2. 2. sings
  3. 3. eat → eats; play → plays; go → goes; cry → cries
  4. 4. b) My friend plays cricket.
  5. 5. The bird sings. → One does it; The birds sing. → More than one do it; The girl reads. → One does it; The girls read. → More than one do it; My dog barks. → One does it; My dogs bark. → More than one do it
  6. 6. 1. The 2. bird 3. sings 4. every 5. day.
  7. 7. I → sing; the girl → sings; they → sing; he → sings; we → sing; the boys → sing
  8. 8. runs