Class 4 · 4th standard · 2026-27

Class 4 English worksheets, free, with every answer on the page

Three free Class 4 English worksheets, with every question and every answer printed on this page rather than behind a download. Class 4 is the year answers stop being one line: tenses acquire exceptions, comprehension questions start asking what a passage implies rather than what it says, and a written answer is expected to run to a paragraph with a beginning and an end. These sheets cover all three, and each exercise opens with one question already worked through.

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3 worksheets · 77 questions · every answer on the page · no sign-up · aligned to NCERT's Class 4 English reader is Santoor. Many schools use their own readers, so these sheets are written to the skills rather than to any one book's chapters.

What these practise

Past, present and future tense, including the common irregular verbs
Keeping one tense across a whole paragraph
Finding a directly stated answer in an unseen passage
Answering an inference question with the evidence attached
Working out what a word means from how it is used
Planning and writing a paragraph that opens and closes properly

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practice · medium · 20 min

Past, present and future

Class 4 English · Tenses · 41 questions with answers

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Class 4 is where tense stops being 'add -ed' and starts having exceptions. Most errors at this age are not carelessness - they are a child applying the regular rule correctly to an irregular verb, which is a sign of understanding rather than of failure.

Changes a regular verb into past, present and future correctly
Uses the common irregular past forms without applying -ed
Keeps one tense across a whole paragraph instead of drifting

Exercise 1 of 4 · 12 questions

Write the past tense of each verb.

Write the answer · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

walk → walked. Most verbs just take -ed. Two of these change slightly first: carry becomes carried because the y turns to i, and stop becomes stopped with the p doubled. Those two spellings are the whole difficulty in this exercise.

1)walk
2)jump
3)clean
4)watch
5)carry
6)stop
7)hurry
8)plan
9)reply
10)shout
11)travel
12)dance

Answers

1) walked
2) jumped
3) cleaned
4) watched
5) carried
6) stopped
7) hurried
8) planned
9) replied
10) shouted
11) travelled
12) danced

Exercise 2 of 4 · 16 questions

Write the past tense. Careful - none of these take -ed.

Write the answer · Guided

Here’s one done for you

go → went. Not 'goed'. A child who writes goed has understood the -ed rule perfectly and applied it to a verb that does not follow it, which is progress rather than a mistake. These simply have to be learned one at a time - four of them here rhyme, which helps: bought, taught, brought, caught.

1)go
2)eat
3)buy
4)teach
5)bring
6)catch
7)think
8)write
9)drink
10)sing
11)swim
12)begin
13)speak
14)break
15)fly
16)leave

Answers

1) went
2) ate
3) bought
4) taught
5) brought
6) caught
7) thought
8) wrote
9) drank
10) sang
11) swam
12) began
13) spoke
14) broke
15) flew
16) left

Exercise 3 of 4 · 12 questions

Fill in the correct form of the verb in brackets.

Fill in the blank · Practice

Here’s one done for you

Yesterday we ______ (go) to the market. → went. The word 'yesterday' decides it before you look at the verb at all. Teach your child to find the time word first - yesterday, every morning, tomorrow, last week - because that word chooses the tense.

1)Yesterday we ______ (go) to the market.
2)Every morning she ______ (drink) milk.
3)Tomorrow I ______ (visit) my cousin.
4)Last week they ______ (buy) a new fan.
5)He ______ (write) a letter every Sunday.
6)Next month we ______ (start) a new chapter.
7)Last night it ______ (rain) very heavily.
8)My father ______ (leave) for work at eight every day.
9)Next Sunday they ______ (come) to our house.
10)Two days ago she ______ (break) her pencil.
11)Birds ______ (fly) south every winter.
12)Tomorrow the school ______ (close) early.

Answers

1) went
2) drinks
3) will visit
4) bought
5) writes
6) will start
7) rained
8) leaves
9) will come
10) broke
11) fly
12) will close

Exercise 4 of 4 · 1 questions

This paragraph keeps changing tense. Rewrite it all in the past.

Write the answer · Challenge

Here’s one done for you

We reach → We reached. Then keep going: is → was, sit → sat, buys → bought, plays → played, listen → listened, comes → came. Seven verbs. Drifting between tenses inside one paragraph is the single most common Class 4 writing error, and reading the finished version aloud catches it faster than checking each verb.

1)We reach the station early. The train is late, so we sit on a bench. Amma buys tea. A man plays the flute nearby. We listen until the train comes.

Answers

1) We reached the station early. The train was late, so we sat on a bench. Amma bought tea. A man played the flute nearby. We listened until the train came.

While your child works

If your child writes 'goed' or 'buyed', say the correct form once and move on. It is a sign the rule has been learned, not that it has not.
The time word - yesterday, tomorrow, every day - decides the tense. Teaching that one habit fixes most of the fill-in-the-blank errors.
For the last exercise, have your child read their rewrite aloud. Tense drift is heard long before it is seen.

Open the Tenses worksheet on its own page

practice · medium · 25 min

Reading between the lines

Class 4 English · Comprehension · 28 questions with answers

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Class 4 is where comprehension questions stop asking what the passage says and start asking what it means. A child who reads accurately but literally begins losing marks here for the first time, and the fix is a habit rather than more reading.

Finds a directly stated answer quickly and moves on
Answers an inference question and gives the evidence for it
Explains what a word means from the way it is used

Exercise 1 of 3 · 10 questions

Read the passage, then answer. PASSAGE: The last bus had gone. Karan looked at the empty road and then at his watch again, as if it might say something different. It was a long walk home and it had started to drizzle. He pulled his bag higher on his shoulder and set off. By the time he reached the corner shop, his shirt was sticking to his back, and the shopkeeper called out and offered him an umbrella he did not have to return.

Write the answer · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

What had Karan missed? → Karan had missed the last bus. This one is stated in the first line, so it should take seconds. Class 4 answers should be full sentences - 'the bus' is right but will not get full marks by Class 5.

1)What had Karan missed?
2)What was the weather doing?
3)Who offered him an umbrella?
4)Where was he when the shopkeeper called out?
5)What did Karan look at twice?
6)What was Karan wearing that got wet?
7)What did the shopkeeper give him?
8)What did Karan do after he found the bus had gone?
9)How long had Karan been walking by then?
10)Which two things made Karan's walk uncomfortable?

Answers

1) Karan had missed the last bus.
2) It had started to drizzle.
3) The shopkeeper offered him an umbrella.
4) He was at the corner shop.
5) He looked at his watch.
6) His shirt, which was sticking to his back.
7) An umbrella.
8) He set off walking.
9) Long enough for his shirt to stick to his back - a fair while.
10) The drizzle and the long walk, which left his shirt wet and sticking to him.

Exercise 2 of 3 · 8 questions

None of these are written in the passage. Work them out, and say how you know.

Write the answer · Practice

Here’s one done for you

Why did Karan look at his watch a second time? → He was hoping the time was different, because he had missed the bus. The passage says 'as if it might say something different' - that phrase is the evidence. An inference answer needs two halves: what you think, and the words in the passage that made you think it.

1)Why did Karan look at his watch a second time?
2)How do we know the walk was not short?
3)Was the shopkeeper being kind? How can you tell?
4)How was Karan feeling at the start of the passage?
5)How do we know Karan did not expect the rain?
6)Do you think Karan and the shopkeeper knew each other? What makes you say so?
7)Would Karan have walked if another bus were coming? Why?
8)How do you think Karan felt after being given the umbrella?

Answers

1) He was hoping the time was different, because he had missed the bus.
2) Because his shirt was sticking to his back by the corner shop, so he had been walking a while.
3) Yes - he gave the umbrella without asking for it back, so he did not want anything in return.
4) Disappointed or worried, because the bus had gone and it was starting to rain.
5) Because he had no umbrella of his own and had to be given one.
6) Answers will differ. The shopkeeper called out to him and lent something without being asked, which suggests they at least recognised each other.
7) No. He set off walking only because the last bus had gone and there was no other way home.
8) Grateful and relieved, because the walk home was long and it was raining.

Exercise 3 of 3 · 10 questions

What does each word mean here? Use the sentence to work it out.

Write the answer · Challenge

Here’s one done for you

drizzle → light rain. Your child does not need to have met the word before. It appears with 'it had started to' and the rest of the passage has him getting wet slowly rather than suddenly, so it must be a small kind of rain. Working a word out from around it is the skill being practised here, not knowing it already.

1)drizzle
2)set off
3)sticking
4)empty (the empty road)
5)last (the last bus)
6)called out
7)corner (the corner shop)
8)offered
9)glanced
10)damp

Answers

1) Light rain.
2) Started walking or began his journey.
3) Clinging to his skin because he was wet with rain and sweat.
4) With nobody on it.
5) The final one, with no more to come.
6) Shouted to get his attention.
7) The shop at the place where two roads meet.
8) Held it out for him to take, without being asked.
9) Looked at something quickly.
10) Slightly wet.

While your child works

For the inference questions, accept any answer that quotes or points at evidence in the passage, however differently worded.
If your child answers inference questions with 'it doesn't say', they are reading literally. Ask 'what do you think, and which line made you think it?' - that phrasing usually unlocks it.
Do not let them look up the vocabulary words. Working them out from context is the entire point of the last exercise.

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practice · challenging · 25 min

Writing a paragraph

Class 4 English · Writing · 8 questions with answers

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By Class 4, answers are expected to run to several sentences that belong together. Most children can produce the sentences; what is missing is the order and the ending. This sheet practises planning separately from writing, which is what makes the difference.

Plans a paragraph in four words before writing it
Opens with a sentence that says what the paragraph is about
Ends with a closing line rather than stopping

Exercise 1 of 3 · 4 questions

These sentences are jumbled. Number them in the right order.

Put in order · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

B comes first because it says what the whole paragraph is about - that is the opening sentence. Then the order words do the rest: First (D), Then (A), Finally (C). Teaching a child to look for those words is quicker than teaching them to reason about the events.

1)A. Then we packed our bags and left for the station.
2)B. Our trip to the hills began very early one morning.
3)C. Finally, after four hours, we saw the first mountain.
4)D. First Amma woke everyone at four o'clock.

Answers

1) B, D, A, C

Exercise 2 of 3 · 3 questions

Write only a four-word plan for each topic. Do not write the paragraph.

Write the answer · Guided

Here’s one done for you

A rainy day at school → rain / no games / indoors / paper boats. Four words, thirty seconds, no sentences. Every child resists this because it feels like wasted time, and every child who does it writes a better-ordered paragraph in less time. These plans are examples - any four sensible points are correct.

1)A rainy day at school
2)The person I like most
3)A festival we celebrate at home

Answers

1) rain / no games / indoors / paper boats
2) who / what they do / one story / why I like them
3) which festival / preparations / the day / best part

Exercise 3 of 3 · 1 questions

Now write one paragraph of five or six sentences using your plan from above.

Write the answer · Challenge

Here’s one done for you

The model answer follows the plan exactly: rain, no games, indoors, paper boats, and then a closing line. Notice the last sentence does not add anything new - it finishes. A paragraph that simply stops feels unfinished to a marker, and one closing sentence is the cheapest fix in Class 4 writing.

1)A rainy day at school

Answers

1) It rained heavily on Tuesday and we could not go out to play. Our games period was moved to the classroom instead. We sat in groups and played word games while the rain hit the windows. Some of us made paper boats and raced them in the puddles at the gate afterwards. It was not the day we had planned, but it turned out to be a good one.

While your child works

Insist on the plan before the paragraph, even though your child will say it is unnecessary. It is the whole point of the sheet.
The model answer is one possible paragraph, not the correct one. Judge your child's on order and on whether it ends, not on how closely it matches ours.
Do not correct spelling while they are writing. Mark it after, or you will interrupt the thinking that this sheet is practising.

Open the Writing worksheet on its own page

What changes in Class 4 English?

Three things, and each one starts costing marks the year it appears.

Tenses stop being regular. Class 3 could get by with 'add -ed'. Class 4 meets went, bought, taught, wrote. A child who writes 'goed' has learned the rule properly and applied it to a verb that does not follow it - that is progress, and treating it as a mistake teaches them to stop applying rules.

Comprehension moves from finding to working out. Questions begin asking why a character did something, or how you can tell. A child who reads accurately but literally answers 'it does not say' and loses the mark. The fix is a habit: what do you think, and which line made you think it.

Answers become paragraphs. And a paragraph needs an order and an ending, which is a planning skill rather than a writing one - see why a child runs out of time in exams, where composing and writing at the same time is the most common Class 5 bottleneck.

How should we use these at home?

Twenty to twenty-five minutes each, once or twice a week. Every exercise opens with a worked example - one question done with the reasoning visible - so a parent who is unsure of the current method can help without teaching something different from school, and a stuck child can restart without asking.

Let your child mark their own work. The answers are on the page for exactly that reason.
Accept different correct answers. In the inference questions and the paragraph, ours are examples. Marking a valid alternative wrong is the fastest way to stop a child attempting.
Do the plan before the paragraph. Your child will say it is unnecessary. It is the single most useful habit on this page.

If reading itself is the difficulty rather than the questions, start with what to do when a child is weak in reading English and the free phonics guides.

Where do Class 4 children usually stall?

Four places, all of them fixable at home.

Tense drift inside a paragraph. The most common Class 4 writing error. Reading the finished piece aloud catches it faster than checking each verb.
Literal reading. Answering only what is written and stopping at inference questions.
One-line answers where several sentences are wanted, usually because nobody has said how long an answer should be.
Paragraphs that stop rather than end. One closing sentence is the cheapest presentation fix available at this age.

What comes next is on our Class 5 English page, and the Class 5 worksheets continue the same strands.

Questions parents ask

Class 4 English worksheets - your questions

Are these Class 4 English worksheets free?

Yes. Every question and every answer is on this page, with no sign-up, no email wall and no account. The printable version puts the answers on a separate final sheet so your child works first and checks after.

Do these include an answer key?

Yes, under each exercise on this page and on a separate sheet when printed. Where more than one answer is correct - inference questions and the paragraph - the key says so explicitly.

Are these matched to the NCERT Class 4 syllabus?

They are written to the skills Class 4 expects rather than to one book's chapters, so they work whether your school uses NCERT's Santoor or its own reader. The underlying skills are the same across boards at this level.

How long should a Class 4 child take on one sheet?

Twenty to twenty-five minutes. If it runs much longer, the sheet is too hard rather than your child being slow - drop back to the Class 3 sheets for a week and return.

My child writes 'goed' and 'buyed'. Is that a problem?

It is a good sign. It means the -ed rule has been learned properly and is being applied to verbs that do not follow it. Say the correct form once and move on - the irregular verbs are learned through use, not through a rule.

My child answers 'it does not say' to the thinking questions.

That is literal reading and it is very common at this age. Rephrase the question as 'what do you think, and which line made you think it?'. The second half is the skill being taught - an inference answer needs its evidence attached.

Should I make my child plan before writing?

Yes, and expect resistance. Four words in the margin, thirty seconds, no sentences. Children consistently report it feels like wasted time and consistently write better-ordered paragraphs in less time when they do it.

Can I print these worksheets?

Yes. They are laid out to print cleanly on A4 with the answers on a separate final page, and nothing needs to be downloaded or signed up for.

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Past, present and future

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Where do Class 4 children usually stall?

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