Primary 4 English language
Here is a list of English language skills students learn in primary 4! These skills are organised into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practising, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
Sentence structure
- A.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
- A.2 Identify the complete subject of a sentence
- A.3 Identify the complete predicate of a sentence
- A.4 Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence
- A.5 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
- A.6 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
- A.7 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
- A.8 Is the sentence simple or compound?
Nouns
- B.1 Which word is a noun?
- B.2 Identify nouns
- B.3 Identify nouns – with abstract nouns
- B.4 Identify common and proper nouns
- B.5 Form regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies
- B.6 Use regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies
- B.7 Form regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves
- B.8 Use regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves
- B.9 Is the noun singular or plural?
- B.10 Form and use irregular plurals
- B.11 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- B.12 Form the singular or plural possessive
- B.13 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
Pronouns
- C.1 Identify personal pronouns
- C.2 Choose between subject and object personal pronouns
- C.3 Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
- C.4 Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"
- C.5 Identify possessive pronouns
- C.6 Use possessive pronouns
- C.7 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
- C.8 Use reflexive pronouns
- C.9 Identify relative pronouns
- C.10 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
- C.11 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
Verbs
- D.1 Use action verbs
- D.2 Identify action verbs
- D.3 Identify main verbs and helping verbs
- D.4 What does the modal verb show?
- D.5 Use the correct modal verb
- D.6 Is the subject singular or plural?
- D.7 Use the correct subject or verb
- D.8 Pronoun-verb agreement
- D.9 Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects
- D.10 Which sentence is in the regular past tense?
- D.11 Identify verbs in the regular past tense
- D.12 Form and use the regular past tense
- D.13 Identify the irregular past tense
- D.14 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1
- D.15 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2
- D.16 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3
- D.17 Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4
- D.18 To be: use the correct form
- D.19 To have: use the correct form
- D.20 Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense?
- D.21 Change the sentence to future tense
- D.22 Use the progressive verb tenses
- D.23 Form the progressive verb tenses
- D.24 Choose between the past tense and past participle
- D.25 Use the perfect verb tenses
- D.26 Form the perfect verb tenses
Articles
Adjectives and adverbs
- F.1 Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?
- F.2 Identify the adjective that describes the noun
- F.3 Identify adjectives
- F.4 Order adjectives
- F.5 Does the adverb tell you how, when or where?
- F.6 Identify adverbs
- F.7 Use relative adverbs
- F.8 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- F.9 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
- F.10 Use adjectives to compare
- F.11 Spell adjectives that compare
- F.12 Use adjectives with more and most
- F.13 Use adverbs to compare
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Contractions
Punctuation, capitalisation and formatting
- J.1 Commas with direct addresses and after introductory words
- J.2 Capitalising the names of people and pets and titles of respect
- J.3 Capitalising days, months and holidays
- J.4 Capitalising the names of places and geographic features
- J.5 Capitalising proper adjectives, nationalities and languages
- J.6 Greetings and closings of letters
- J.7 Capitalising titles
- J.8 Formatting titles
- J.9 Formatting and capitalising titles
Prefixes and suffixes
- K.1 Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes
- K.2 Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re- or mis-
- K.3 Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis-
- K.4 Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less
- K.5 Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness
- K.6 Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment
- K.7 Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review
- K.8 Prefixes and suffixes: review
Greek and Latin roots
Reference skills
- M.1 Order alphabetically based on the first letter
- M.2 Order alphabetically based on the first two letters
- M.3 Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
- M.4 Order alphabetically: challenge
- M.5 Use guide words
- M.6 Use dictionary entries
- M.7 Use dictionary definitions
- M.8 Use thesaurus entries
Word relationships and usage
- N.1 Choose the synonym
- N.2 Which sentence has the same meaning?
- N.3 Find synonyms in context
- N.4 Choose the antonym
- N.5 Which sentence uses an antonym?
- N.6 Find antonyms in context
- N.7 Form compound words
- N.8 Form and use compound words
- N.9 Describe the difference between related words
- N.10 Positive and negative connotation
- N.11 Homophones with pictures
- N.12 Identify homophones
- N.13 Use the correct homophone
- N.14 Which definition matches the sentence?
- N.15 Which sentence matches the definition?