Grade 8 English
Here is a list of English skills students learn in grade 8! 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 Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
- A.2 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
- A.3 Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence
- A.4 Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence
- A.5 Is it a direct object or an indirect object?
- A.6 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
- A.7 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
- A.8 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
- A.9 Is it a phrase or a clause?
- A.10 Identify prepositional phrases
- A.11 Identify appositives and appositive phrases
- A.12 Identify dependent and independent clauses
- A.13 Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
- A.14 Combine sentences using relative clauses
Nouns
- B.1 Form and use plurals: review
- B.2 Form and use plurals of compound nouns
- B.3 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- B.4 Form the singular or plural possessive
- B.5 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
- B.6 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
Pronouns
- C.1 Identify pronouns and their antecedents
- C.2 Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent
- C.3 Choose between subject and object pronouns
- C.4 Compound subjects and objects with 'I' and 'me'
- C.5 Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
- C.6 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
- C.7 Use reflexive pronouns
- C.8 Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
- C.9 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
- C.10 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
- C.11 Identify vague pronoun references
- C.12 Identify all of the possible antecedents
Verbs and verbals
- D.1 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
- D.2 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
- D.3 Correct errors with subject-verb agreement
- D.4 Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
- D.5 Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
- D.6 Irregular past tense: review
- D.7 Simple past, present and future tense: review
- D.8 Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
- D.9 Form the progressive verb tenses
- D.10 Form the perfect verb tenses
- D.11 Identify active and passive voice
- D.12 Rewrite the sentence in active voice
- D.13 Identify participles and what they modify
- D.14 Identify gerunds and their functions
- D.15 Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
Adjectives and adverbs
- E.1 Identify adjectives
- E.2 Order adjectives
- E.3 Identify adverbs
- E.4 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- E.5 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
- E.6 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
- E.7 Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
- E.8 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
- E.9 Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
Punctuation, capitalisation and formatting
- F.1 Commas with compound and complex sentences
- F.2 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters
- F.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
- F.4 Commas with non-restrictive elements
- F.5 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
- F.6 Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
- F.7 Use dashes
- F.8 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
- F.9 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
- F.10 Correct capitalisation errors
- F.11 Capitalising titles
- F.12 Formatting titles
- F.13 Formatting and capitalising titles: review