Home / English / Printables / Grade 1 / What Makes a Sentence What Makes a Sentence is a free printable Grade 1 English worksheet on the capital and the end mark that bracket a sentence, aligned to Common Core standard RF.1.1. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
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What Makes a Sentence RF.1.1
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Circle the right answer.
1. Why do we put a space between words?
A. To make the writing longer B. To show where to stop reading C. So the reader can see where each word ends 2. Which of these is a whole sentence?
A. the big brown B. The dog barked. C. under the table and 3. "Ravi went home" — what is missing?
A. A period B. A capital letter C. A space 4. What must every sentence begin with?
A. A comma B. A period C. A capital letter 5. Which mark ends a sentence that asks something?
A. A question mark B. A capital letter C. A period 6. Which mark ends a sentence that is shouted?
A. A comma B. A period C. An exclamation point 7. In "The cat sat.", which word has the capital, and why?
A. "The," because it starts the sentence B. "cat," because it is an animal C. "sat," because it is the action 8. Which mark ends a sentence that tells you something?
A. A period B. A comma C. A question mark LessonPrint · RF.1.1 · Set 15 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What Makes a Sentence Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.
1. So the reader can see where each word ends 2. The dog barked. 3. A period 4. A capital letter 5. A question mark 6. An exclamation point 7. "The," because it starts the sentence 8. A period More practice for RF.1.1 Know that a sentence starts with a capital and ends with a mark that tells you how it ends.
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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RF.1.1 of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.