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4th grade · English Language Arts · Unit 10 of 14

Grammar Gears

Who, which, have and has

What your child practices

Choosing who, which, that and whose, using have, has and had with the right verb form, telling questions from commands, and using my, your, their, this and these.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 4.39 · relative pronouns and verb forms

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Use who for people, which for things, that for either, and whose to show who owns something.
  2. Have and has go with a past form of the verb: they have lived, she has eaten.
  3. A command tells someone to do something. A question asks.

Example: “The girl ___ won the race is my cousin.” who or which? The word points back to “the girl,” a person. Use who for people. Answer: who

Grammar Gears in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 10 of 14 in 4th grade English Language Arts, after Paragraph Power and before Tall Tales, Myths & Plays.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which word completes the sentence? The students packed ___ lunches.

    • they're
    • their
    • there

  2. Question 2

    Which word completes the sentence? ___ mountain far away is tall.

    • That
    • These
    • This

  3. Question 3

    Which sentence is in the past perfect tense?

    • She finishes before the bell rings.
    • She has finished since the bell rang.
    • She had finished before the bell rang.

  4. Question 4

    Which sentence uses the correct relative pronoun?

    • The teacher whose reads to us is kind.
    • The teacher who reads to us is kind.
    • The teacher which reads to us is kind.

  5. Question 5

    Which pair is correct? ___ turn is next, and ___ turn is after.

    • Her, your
    • Hers, yours
    • She, you

  6. Question 6

    Which word completes the sentence? The book ___ I borrowed is funny.

    • whom
    • that
    • who

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