Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
October 1953 5-a-day
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Every sheet in October 1953
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1953Add commas if needed: 'My brother who lives in Leeds is visiting us tomorrow.' (assume he is my only brother)
- 2nd October 1953Add commas around the extra information: 'My teacher who studied in Spain speaks fluent Spanish.'
- 3rd October 1953Explain why 'on the other hand' would not fit in this sentence: 'She trained hard. ___, she won the race.'
- 4th October 1953Punctuate this list correctly using semicolons: 'We visited Leeds Yorkshire Bath Somerset and York Yorkshire.'
- 5th October 1953Join these two sentences using a semicolon: 'The rain stopped. The children went outside.'
- 6th October 1953Put 'walk' into the past simple.
- 7th October 1953Add the possessive apostrophe: 'James bike' (one boy named James)
- 8th October 1953Correct the verb form: 'I ain't got no pencil.'
- 9th October 1953Write a sentence using 'rarely' correctly with the verb 'to be'.
- 10th October 1953Choose the correctly punctuated sentence. A) 'The film (was two hours long.) was boring.' B) 'The film (was two hours long) was boring.'
- 11th October 1953Give the comparative form of 'small'.
- 12th October 1953Does this sentence have an object? 'The children laughed loudly.'
- 13th October 1953Give a more formal synonym for 'get' in 'We need to get more information.'
- 14th October 1953According to the sentence 'Scientists recorded a rise of nearly two degrees over the decade', by roughly how much did the temperature rise?
- 15th October 1953Rewrite using a preposition of place: 'The ball is (inside) the box.'
- 16th October 1953Identify the reporting clause in: "I am tired," sighed Max.
- 17th October 1953Identify the pronoun in this sentence and the noun it replaces: 'Layla found her keys after she searched the whole house.'
- 18th October 1953Rewrite to show permission rather than ability: 'I can go to the party.'
- 19th October 1953Expand the noun phrase 'the house' by adding two adjectives before it.
- 20th October 1953Identify the informal word in: 'Yeah, that's totally fine mate.'
- 21st October 1953Add a colon in the correct place: 'He had one goal win the trophy.'
- 22nd October 1953What word class is 'quickly' in 'She ran quickly across the field'?
- 23rd October 1953Put 'sleep' into the past continuous for 'she'.
- 24th October 1953Choose a or an: '___ honest answer'
- 25th October 1953Write a fronted adverbial of place to start this sentence: '___, a fox was hiding.'
- 26th October 1953Give one synonym for 'happy'.
- 27th October 1953Identify the words marked by dashes: 'The exam - which lasted two hours - was very difficult.'
- 28th October 1953Explain why 'were' is used instead of 'was' in 'If I were a bird, I would fly south.'
- 29th October 1953Is a hyphen needed in 'state of the art technology' when it comes before the noun?
- 30th October 1953Replace 'brave' with its antonym in: 'The knight was brave in battle.'
- 31st October 1953Circle the correctly spelled word: definitely / definately / defiantly.