Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
May 1953 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1953Punctuate: the teacher said well done everyone
- 2nd May 1953Choose the correct pronoun: 'Give the book to ___ (I/me).'
- 3rd May 1953Choose the modal verb that shows strong obligation: 'You ___ hand in your homework by Friday.' (can/must)
- 4th May 1953Choose the correctly punctuated expanded noun phrase. A) 'the bright, colourful, kite' B) 'the bright, colourful kite'
- 5th May 1953Rewrite 'gonna' in a formal register.
- 6th May 1953Is a colon correctly placed here? 'You will need: a pencil, a ruler and a rubber.'
- 7th May 1953Is this sentence simple, compound or complex? 'The dog barked and the cat hissed.'
- 8th May 1953Put 'play' into the past continuous for 'they'.
- 9th May 1953Choose a or an: '___ European country'
- 10th May 1953Rewrite 'The waves crashed loudly against the rocks all night.' starting with a fronted adverbial of manner.
- 11th May 1953Give one antonym for 'happy'.
- 12th May 1953Explain the difference in tone between using dashes and using brackets for the same information.
- 13th May 1953Rewrite to use the subjunctive: 'The teacher insists that he does his homework.'
- 14th May 1953Add a hyphen to make this compound adjective correct: 'a well known scientist'
- 15th May 1953Give a formal antonym for 'ambiguous' in: 'Her explanation was ambiguous.'
- 16th May 1953Add -ible or -able to 'comfort' to make an adjective.
- 17th May 1953Turn 'gentle' into an adverb of manner.
- 18th May 1953Correct this sentence if there is more than one bird: 'The bird's flew away.'
- 19th May 1953Fill the gap with a possessive pronoun: 'The red car is ___, not John's.'
- 20th May 1953Rewrite this sentence placing the adverb of possibility at the start with correct punctuation: 'We are certainly going to win.'
- 21st May 1953Give the past participle used in: 'He has ___ (go) to the shop.'
- 22nd May 1953Identify the passive verb phrase in this sentence: 'The bridge is being repaired by engineers.'
- 23rd May 1953Is this list grammatically parallel? '- walk the dog - to feed the cat - washing the car'
- 24th May 1953Tick one box: is a novel an example of fiction or non-fiction?
- 25th May 1953Which conjunction fits: '___ the sun was shining, Mia put on her coat.'
- 26th May 1953Give a synonym for 'fast'.
- 27th May 1953Add a comma: 'In the end everyone agreed.'
- 28th May 1953Choose the correct relative pronoun: 'This is the teacher ___ taught me to read.'
- 29th May 1953Choose the correctly punctuated sentence. A) 'The match, postponed twice was finally played.' B) 'The match, postponed twice, was finally played.'
- 30th May 1953Identify the cohesive device in: 'Meanwhile, the other team were warming up.'
- 31st May 1953Is a semicolon correct here: 'Although it was raining; we went outside.'