Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
May 1959 5-a-day
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Every sheet in May 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1959Put 'sleep' into the past continuous for 'she'.
- 2nd May 1959Choose a or an: '___ honest answer'
- 3rd May 1959Write a fronted adverbial of place to start this sentence: '___, a fox was hiding.'
- 4th May 1959Give one synonym for 'happy'.
- 5th May 1959Identify the words marked by dashes: 'The exam - which lasted two hours - was very difficult.'
- 6th May 1959Explain why 'were' is used instead of 'was' in 'If I were a bird, I would fly south.'
- 7th May 1959Is a hyphen needed in 'state of the art technology' when it comes before the noun?
- 8th May 1959Replace 'brave' with its antonym in: 'The knight was brave in battle.'
- 9th May 1959Circle the correctly spelled word: definitely / definately / defiantly.
- 10th May 1959Add an adverb of manner formed from 'loud' to: 'He shut the door.'
- 11th May 1959Add the correct form: 'the (girls) ___ coats' (several girls)
- 12th May 1959Is 'its' a possessive pronoun or a possessive adjective in 'The cat licked its paw'?
- 13th May 1959Rewrite to add an adverb showing low certainty: 'It will snow this weekend.'
- 14th May 1959Identify the present perfect verb in: 'She has finished her homework.'
- 15th May 1959Rewrite in the active voice: 'The trophy was lifted by the captain.'
- 16th May 1959Punctuate this bullet as a full sentence: 'the dog barked loudly' (as a standalone bulleted sentence)
- 17th May 1959Give one piece of evidence a reader could use to show a character is nervous, from the phrase 'her hands trembled as she opened the letter'.
- 18th May 1959Combine using 'when': 'The bell rang. The children lined up.'
- 19th May 1959Give a synonym for 'scared'.
- 20th May 1959Add a comma: 'Without any hesitation she jumped in.'
- 21st May 1959Choose the correct relative pronoun: 'The dog ___ barked all night belongs to my neighbour.'
- 22nd May 1959Rewrite this sentence adding the parenthesis 'a keen gardener' using commas: 'My grandad grows his own vegetables.'
- 23rd May 1959Choose a cohesive device to link these sentences showing time order: 'We ate dinner. ___ we watched a film.'
- 24th May 1959Correct the punctuation: 'She was tired, she went to bed early.'
- 25th May 1959Underline the verb in this sentence: 'The dog barked loudly at the postman.'
- 26th May 1959Explain the tense error in: 'Every day she cooked dinner for her family, then yesterday she cooks again.'
- 27th May 1959Correct this sentence if it only has one girl: 'The girls' bag was red.'
- 28th May 1959Which is Standard English: 'They was late' or 'They were late'?
- 29th May 1959Add 'often' in the correct place: 'He is ___ late for class.' (using the verb 'to be')
- 30th May 1959Explain the error in this sentence and correct it: 'The teacher (Mr Patel marked our books.'
- 31st May 1959Give the comparative form of 'big' (apply the spelling rule).