Fix It Right: Editing Sentences for Grade 3 

This Grade 3 worksheet focuses on building strong editing skills, helping students learn how to spot and correct common sentence errors. Designed for young writers, it teaches children to identify mistakes related to capital letters, punctuation, verb forms, spelling, and sentence structure. Through guided error-spotting, multiple-choice corrections, sentence rewriting, passage-based editing, and paragraph writing, learners develop accuracy, attention to detail, and confidence in their writing. 

Why Editing Sentences Matter in Grammar? 

Editing sentences is a vital skill for Grade 3 learners because: 
1. It helps students recognise and correct common grammar mistakes. 
2. It improves sentence clarity, accuracy, and readability. 
3. It builds awareness of capitalization, punctuation, and verb agreement. 
4. It prepares students for independent writing, exams, and revision tasks. 

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

This worksheet includes five structured activities to strengthen editing and proofreading skills: 

✏️ Exercise 1 – Identify and Underline the Error 
Students read sentences and underline the incorrect word or part, such as spelling mistakes, missing capitals, or wrong verb forms. Example: “we went to the park on sunday.” 

🧠 Exercise 2 – Choose the Correctly Edited Sentence 
Students select the grammatically correct version of each sentence, focusing on capitalization, articles, punctuation, and verb usage. 

✍️ Exercise 3 – Rewrite the Sentence Correctly 
Learners rewrite sentences by fixing errors related to verb tense, helping verbs, subject–verb agreement, and question formation. 

📝 Exercise 4 – Fill in the Blanks (Passage-Based Editing) 
Students complete a reflective passage by adding correctly edited sentences, applying proofreading skills in context. 

📖 Exercise 5 – Paragraph Writing 
Students write a paragraph on “A Day Without Electricity,” checking capitalization, punctuation, and grammar carefully. 

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Exercise 1 – Identify and Underline the Error 
1. we 
2. apples 
3. don’t 
4. No error 
5. wag 
6. have 
7. classs 
8. me 
9. where 
10. No error 

Exercise 2 – Multiple Choice (Correctly Edited Sentences) 
1. b) Riya went to Delhi yesterday. 
2. a) The cat is under the table. 
3. c) Ravi has a new bag. 
4. a) Where is my pencil? 
5. c) The teacher marks tests. 
6. c) We are going to the park. 
7. a) The bus came late today. 
8. a) Meera likes to draw pictures. 
9. c) Is this your pen? 
10. b) They were playing outside. 

Exercise 3 – Rewrite the Sentence Correctly (Sample Answers) 
1. Riya likes mangoes. 
2. The dog runs fast. 
3. The teacher is kind. 
4. Ravi goes to school now. 
5. Meera has a pencil. 
6. Neha is writing a story. 
7. Why are you late today? 
8. We play in the ground. 
9. The books are heavy. 
10. The class was noisy. 

Exercise 4 – Fill in the Blanks (Sample Answers) 
“Check your sentences carefully”, I started checking my work carefully, I added a capital letter at the beginning, I added a full stop, I removed the extra words, I rewrote it clearly, I added a better sentence, I checked my punctuation 

Exercise 5 – Paragraph Writing 
Answers may vary.

Help your child become a confident and careful writer with this Grade 3 Editing Sentences worksheet. 
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