Grade 3 ELA Practice Test: Possessives and Spelling Patterns
- Possessives and Spelling Patterns
- 10 questions
- 15 minutes
Questions 1-5 are about showing who owns something, and questions 6-10 are about spelling words when you add an ending. Tip: one owner gets 's, and plural owners that end in s get just an apostrophe.
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Question 1
The bike belongs to Nora. Which words show this correctly?
Correct answer: C
To show that one person owns something, add an apostrophe and s to the name: Nora's. Noras without an apostrophe just looks like a plural.
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Question 2
The toys belong to five puppies. Which words show this correctly?
Correct answer: B
Puppies is a plural that already ends in s, so you add only an apostrophe: puppies'. The puppy's toys would mean just one puppy.
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Question 3
The coats belong to the children. Which words show this correctly?
Correct answer: A
Children is a plural that does not end in s, so it gets 's just like a single owner: children's. Childrens is not a word.
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Question 4
The little bird spread its wings.
Which word correctly completes the next sentence? "The ____ feathers were bright blue."
Correct answer: D
There is one bird that owns the feathers, so the word is bird's. Birds' would mean many birds.
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Question 5
Which word correctly completes the sentence? "The dog wagged ____ tail when we came home."
Correct answer: B
Its (no apostrophe) shows that something belongs to it. It's always means "it is," and "it is tail" makes no sense.
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Question 6
Which word correctly completes the sentence? "The rabbit is ____ across the yard."
Correct answer: A
Hop has a short vowel and ends in one consonant, so you double the p before adding -ing: hopping. Hoping comes from hope and means wishing.
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Question 7
Which word correctly completes the sentence? "Dad ____ the heavy box up the stairs."
Correct answer: C
When a word ends in a consonant plus y, change the y to i before adding -ed: carry becomes carried.
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Question 8
Which word correctly completes the sentence? "That was the ____ day of my whole summer."
Correct answer: B
Happy ends in a consonant plus y, so change the y to i and add -est: happiest.
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Question 9
Which word correctly completes the sentence? "The two ____ were sleeping in the nursery."
Correct answer: D
To make baby plural, change the y to i and add -es: babies. Baby's shows ownership, not more than one.
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Question 10
Which word correctly completes the sentence? "The chef sharpened all of her ____."
Correct answer: A
Knife is a word where f changes to v before -es in the plural, like leaf and leaves. So the plural is knives.
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