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2nd grade · English Language Arts · Unit 7 of 12

Grammar Gears

Nouns, pronouns, verbs and more

What your child practices

Using the right form of the verb “to be”, choosing pronouns, comparing with -er and -est, and picking joining words like but, or and because.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 2.2.1.3 · common, proper and plural nouns, and regular and irregular verbs

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Nouns name people, places and things. Pronouns (he, she, they) take their place.
  2. Verbs show action. Use “is” for one and “are” for more than one.
  3. Adverbs, like loudly, tell how an action is done.

Example: Which word can take the place of “Leo and Zoe”? Leo and Zoe are two people. For more than one person, use “they”. Answer: they

Grammar Gears in Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 7 of 12 in 2nd grade English Language Arts, after Joining Sentences and before Word Pictures.

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: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

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 names something you can only feel or think? courage, backpack, river

    • courage
    • river
    • backpack

  2. Question 2

    A ___ of fish swam under the dock.

    • school
    • pack
    • flock

  3. Question 3

    She ___ ten years old.

    • am
    • are
    • is

  4. Question 4

    Which word tells about the verb? The dog ran quickly.

    • dog
    • quickly
    • The

  5. Question 5

    I wanted to play outside, ___ it was raining.

    • but
    • or
    • so

  6. Question 6

    Which word can take the place of “the girl”?

    • they
    • she
    • he

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