My Name:

Titles and Abbreviations
A title is attached to a person’s name. It shows honor, rank, or office. A title always begins with a capital letter. An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word. Some abbreviations begin with a capital letter, but they almost always end with a period.

Titles

Measurements

Time

Addresses

Reverend / Rev.

pint / pt.

minute / min.

Street / St.

Doctor / Dr.

pound / lb.

Sunday / Sun.

Road / Rd.

Senator / Sen.

gallon / gal.

January / Jan.

Avenue / Ave.

Mister / Mr.

inch / in.

before noon / A.M.

Court / Ct.

Governor / Gov.

feet / ft.

after noon / P.M.

Place / Pl.

Directions: Type the following items. Use the abbreviations of the words in RED.

Titles or Phrases	My Correct Abbreviation
(doctor) Jane Proudfoot
(Monday), (March) 17
931 Pine (road)
(senator) Lynn Potter
(Mister) Joseph Green
(Governor) Washington
4 (feet), 6 (inches)
3:00 (in the afternoon)
(January) 2005
(Saturday), (August) 8

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Directions: The writer of the following story was in a hurry yesterday, and he or she didn’t finish checking the story. Re-type this story and correct any errors you find. Pay attention to singular and plural nouns..

The Picnic
We went on a picnics yesterday.
There were four peoples and a zillion ants.
An ant may be little, but there are a lot of them.
Our family went to the parks, and we took our lunch. It was delicious!
We had apples, sandwich, peaches, and carrot.
The best part of the picnic was the cupcake. We left them in boxes.
We shouldn’t have done that.
I never had a chance to sink my teeths into even one cupcake.
The ants found the cupcakes before we did.
Dad was startled by the ants.
He fell right on the cupcake box.
All the cupcake were squashed.
Picnic! Ants! You can have them.
All I’d like is a cupcake.

3rd Grade – Grammar Review

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4th Grade Grammar

Gary Marvin

2004-10-07

Louisville, KY