Common mistakes when writing statements and questions (Grade 1)

📚 Quick Study Guide

💡 Statements: Tell us something. They end with a period (.).
• Example: The dog is brown.
❓ Questions: Ask us something. They end with a question mark (?).
• Example: Is the dog brown?
✍️ Capitalization: Start every sentence with a capital letter.
• Example: The cat is sleeping.
🎯 Read Carefully: Always read the sentence carefully to understand if it's telling you something or asking you something.

Practice Quiz

1. Which sentence is a statement?
   1. Is the sun shining?
   2. The sun is shining.
   3. Shining sun?
2. Which sentence is a question?
   1. I like pizza.
   2. Do you like pizza?
   3. Pizza is good.
3. What punctuation mark goes at the end of a statement?
   1. Question mark (?)
   2. Exclamation point (!)
   3. Period (.)
4. What punctuation mark goes at the end of a question?
   1. Period (.)
   2. Question mark (?)
   3. Comma (,)
5. Which sentence is correctly capitalized?
   1. the bird is singing.
   2. The bird is singing.
   3. tHe BiRd iS sInGiNg.
6. Which of these asks for information?
   1. The sky is blue.
   2. Is the sky blue?
   3. Sky blue.
7. Which sentence is NOT a question?
   1. Are you happy?
   2. I am happy.
   3. Is she happy?