Zealand Primary School

Grade Three
Annual Examination
Language Paper 1
Name: ______________________ Date:
_____________
Answer all questions. Circle the letter next to the correct answer.
1. Which of the following word is a naming word?
(a) Crying (b) Bushing (c) Car
(d) Sleeping

2. Which word in the sentence He wore his new shoe to school is an

adjective?
(a) wore (b) new (c) shoe
(d) school

In questions 3 and 4 choose the animal or the young to complete

the sentences.
3. Which of the following is the young of a cow?
(a) lamb (b) foal (c) calf (d)
kitten

4. Which of the following is the adult of the tadpole?

(a) Frog (b) Butterfly (c) Elephant (d) Joey

5. All of the following words have a consonant digraph except __________

(a) push (b) Please (c) photograph
(d) witch

6. Which of the following is not a consonant blend?

 (a) Th (b) Bl (c) Str
(d) Ch

7. All of the following has a consonant digraph in the final position except
________
(a) whip (b) punch (c) graph
(d) mesh

In questions 8 and 9 choose the word from the sentences that is a

compound words.
8. My eyeballs are hurting because I watch too much television
(a) eyeballs (b) hurting (c) television
(d) because

9. Did you feel the earthquake this morning?

(a) Did (b) earthquake (c) morning
(d) feel
Read the note below then answer the questions.

Dear Jan,

How are you? I am inviting you to my eight birthday party. It will be on

Saturday, November 19, 2022 at my home at three o’clock. Mother will prepare
lots of things for us to eat and drink. You will have lots of fun. Ask your mother
if you can come.

Your friend,

Susan.

Circle the letter next to the correct answer.

10. Whom is the note for?

a) Susan b) Jan c) Mother d) Brother
 11. What kind of note is it?
a) Thank You b) Request c) Excuse d) Invitation

12. If Jan arrives at the party at two o’clock, she will be

a) early b) late c) on time d) actually late

13. How old will the girl be?

a) 7 b) 8 c) 9 d) 10

14. Which word in the note tells that the party will be exciting?
a) Eat b) Fun c) Drink d) Prepare

In questions, 15 and 16 identify the part of speech of the underlined

words.
15. Grandma baked cookies.
(a) Noun (b) Verb (c) Adjective (d)
Adverb

16. The teacher’s shoe is red.

(a) Noun (b) Verb (c) Adjective (d)
Adverb

17. Which of the following is the past tense for the word JUMP?
(a) Jumps (b) jumping (c) jumper (d)
jumped

18. In the sentence I have a round ball. The word round is an

adjective that tells ______
(a) Colour (b) shape (c) feelings (d)
size
 19. Alfanzo was asked to name 2 consonant digraphs. Which set of
digraphs would he list?
(a) Sh, Pl (b) Wh, Bl (c) Th, Cl (d) Ph, Ch

20. Miss Roslyn asked Sarah to identify all the words that have a
digraph in the final position. Which set of words would he most likely
choose?
(a) Church, ship, push (b) last, graph, church
(c) which, street, march (d) star, stem, punish

21. Sir Ross had some words in a basket. She asked Shenella to pick
out all the words with the digraph ‘ph’ in the beginning position. Which
set of words should Shenella choose?
(a) Graph, Phone (b) trophy,
elephant (c) Elephant, photographer
(d) Phonics, Phone

22. All of the following sets of words are arranged in alphabetical

order except.
(a) guess, door, next, bottle (b) under, tree, school, walk (c) brother,
each, other, sister (d) decide, football, money, play

23. Moriah was told to list two proper nouns. Which set of words
would she most likely to choose?
a) Monday, table b) Tuesday, Neymar c) desk, bench d)
November, chair
 24. In class Shaine was told to name three action words. Which one of
the words he should NOT choose?
(a) sleep (b) sweep (c) play (d) Red

25. If I want to use three words to describe a mango which set of words
can be used?
(a) Juicy, sour, square (b) big,
delicious, blue (c) juicy, big, soft
(d) ripe, big, triangular

26. Malinda had to place the words chosen above under their correct
heading. Which heading will he most likely choose?
(a) Adjectives (b) Nouns (c) Pronouns
(d) Verbs

27. Alfanzo visited the zoo and he saw an elephant and its young.
What is the young of the elephant called?
(a) Calf (b) Cub (c) baby elephant
(d) kitten

28. Alfanzo saw a cub. The adult will most likely be a ____________
(a) swan (b) Lion (c) deer
(d) donkey

In questions 29 and 30 circle the best adjective to describe the underlined

nouns.

29. A (big tasty) dog was chewing on a bone.

30. Ann asked a (blue strong) man to open her water bottle.
 Zealand Primary School
Language Arts Paper 2
Choose ONE of the following to write on.

1. You really enjoy Independence this year. It’s one that you will never forget.
Write a composition on how you celebrated Independence.

2. The pupils of Seafield Primary talk about subjects they study, the days they
have these subjects and which subjects they are good at. Write a
composition on the subject you like best.

OR

3. Study the pictures below then write a story based on one of it.

Or