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Free verbal reasoning worksheet, grade 3 (ages 8–9, UK Year 4)

10 puzzles on page one, the answers and the rules on page two. Ask your child to say the rule before you check it — that’s the part that sticks.

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Verbal reasoning worksheet, grade 3 (ages 8–9, UK Year 4)

Name: ____________________

  1. 1.

    Robin is to bird as spade is to ____

    • Astable
    • Btool
    • Chouse
    • Dswimmer
    • Ebrick

  2. 2.

    Square, rectangle, circle ______

    • Atriangle
    • Bpink
    • Ccorner
    • Dline
    • Eedge

  3. 3.

    Brick is to wall as thorn is to ____

    • Afarmer
    • Bdance
    • Chot
    • Ddancer
    • Erose

  4. 4.

    Wing is to bird as day is to ____

    • Ahole
    • Banimal
    • Cshut
    • Dweek
    • Eleg

  5. 5.

    Robin, duck, owl ______

    • Apig
    • Bfeather
    • Csparrow
    • Dflock
    • Enest

  6. 6.

    Duck is to bird as carrot is to ____

    • Avegetable
    • Bwrite
    • Cladder
    • Dbear
    • Ecow

  7. 7.

    The music was too ______ to sleep through.

    • Aold
    • Bslow
    • Cshort
    • Dloud
    • Esoft

  8. 8.

    Blue, purple, green ______

    • Aoval
    • Byellow
    • Crainbow
    • Dpaint
    • Eshade

  9. 9.

    The walkers were very happy, so they ______.

    • Awashed
    • Bsmiled
    • Ccried
    • Dhurried
    • Easked

  10. 10.

    The children were very thirsty, so they ______.

    • Ascratched
    • Bdrank
    • Chid
    • Dwashed
    • Ehurried

Answers, and the rule behind each one

  1. 1. B — tool. Rule: one kind of a bigger group. A robin is one kind of bird. A spade is one kind of tool in the same way.
  2. 2. A — triangle. Rule: they are all shapes. Square, rectangle and circle are all shapes. Triangle belongs with them for the same reason.
  3. 3. E — rose. Rule: a part and its whole. A brick is one part of a wall. A thorn is one part of a rose in the same way.
  4. 4. D — week. Rule: a part and its whole. A wing is one part of a bird. A day is one part of a week in the same way.
  5. 5. C — sparrow. Rule: they are all birds. Robin, duck and owl are all birds. Sparrow belongs with them for the same reason.
  6. 6. A — vegetable. Rule: one kind of a bigger group. A duck is one kind of bird. A carrot is one kind of vegetable in the same way.
  7. 7. D — loud. Rule: the reason you could not do it. The blank has to say why you could not sleep through it, and being loud is a reason you could not.
  8. 8. B — yellow. Rule: they are all colours. Blue, purple and green are all colours. Yellow belongs with them for the same reason.
  9. 9. B — smiled. Rule: what the first part makes happen. Being happy is the clue — that is why they smiled.
  10. 10. B — drank. Rule: what the first part makes happen. Being thirsty is the clue — that is why they drank.