8th Grade Language Arts Worksheets
Step up your practice with our printable 8th grade language arts worksheets that are accompanied by answer keys and feature adequate exercises in forming and using verbs in the active and passive voice, recognizing and correcting inappropriate shifts, comprehending the figures of speech like onomatopoeia, oxymoron, hyperbole, personification, building vocabulary with collocations, citing textual evidence to support analysis of what the informational text says explicitly and drawing inferences from the text. Motivate your crew and encourage them to practice with our free grade 8 language arts worksheets.
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Look for the absolute phrase in each sentence that is set apart by a comma and modifies the sentence and underline it.
Read the independent clause in each sentence and add an appropriate subordinate or dependent clause to complete it.
Choosing Sentences with Appropriate Shift
Read each set of sentences and identify the one that has an appropriate shift in the verb tense and check the correct box.
Form a complex sentence by adding a suitable independent clause that contains a complete thought to each dependent clause.
Passive Voice with Modal Verbs
Each sentence in the active voice has a modal along with the verb. Convert it to passive by adding a form of be to it.
Splitting into Two Independent Clauses
Identify and eliminate the relative pronoun, convert the relative clause to an independent clause, and split the sentence into two independent clauses.
Add an appropriate question tag choosing from the options in the word box. Rewrite the sentence with proper punctuations.
Identifying Verbs, Objects and Complements
Read each sentence, spot and label the action or linking verbs, direct and indirect objects, subject and object complements.
Transform the sentences from passive to active voice turning the spot light on the subject of the sentence.
Diagramming Reflexive Pronouns
Identify the reflexive pronouns that end in -self or -selves and refer back to the subject forms of the personal pronouns and diagram the sentences.
