Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
August 1978 5-a-day
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Every sheet in August 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1978Replace 'nice' with a more interesting synonym in: 'It was a nice day.'
- 2nd August 1978Add a comma: 'Yesterday I lost my favourite pen.'
- 3rd August 1978Add commas if needed: 'My brother who lives in Leeds is visiting us tomorrow.' (assume he is my only brother)
- 4th August 1978Add commas around the extra information: 'My teacher who studied in Spain speaks fluent Spanish.'
- 5th August 1978Explain why 'on the other hand' would not fit in this sentence: 'She trained hard. ___, she won the race.'
- 6th August 1978Punctuate this list correctly using semicolons: 'We visited Leeds Yorkshire Bath Somerset and York Yorkshire.'
- 7th August 1978Join these two sentences using a semicolon: 'The rain stopped. The children went outside.'
- 8th August 1978Put 'walk' into the past simple.
- 9th August 1978Add the possessive apostrophe: 'James bike' (one boy named James)
- 10th August 1978Correct the verb form: 'I ain't got no pencil.'
- 11th August 1978Write a sentence using 'rarely' correctly with the verb 'to be'.
- 12th August 1978Choose the correctly punctuated sentence. A) 'The film (was two hours long.) was boring.' B) 'The film (was two hours long) was boring.'
- 13th August 1978Give the comparative form of 'small'.
- 14th August 1978Does this sentence have an object? 'The children laughed loudly.'
- 15th August 1978Give a more formal synonym for 'get' in 'We need to get more information.'
- 16th August 1978According to the sentence 'Scientists recorded a rise of nearly two degrees over the decade', by roughly how much did the temperature rise?
- 17th August 1978Rewrite using a preposition of place: 'The ball is (inside) the box.'
- 18th August 1978Identify the reporting clause in: "I am tired," sighed Max.
- 19th August 1978Identify the pronoun in this sentence and the noun it replaces: 'Layla found her keys after she searched the whole house.'
- 20th August 1978Rewrite to show permission rather than ability: 'I can go to the party.'
- 21st August 1978Expand the noun phrase 'the house' by adding two adjectives before it.
- 22nd August 1978Identify the informal word in: 'Yeah, that's totally fine mate.'
- 23rd August 1978Add a colon in the correct place: 'He had one goal win the trophy.'
- 24th August 1978What word class is 'quickly' in 'She ran quickly across the field'?
- 25th August 1978Put 'sleep' into the past continuous for 'she'.
- 26th August 1978Choose a or an: '___ honest answer'
- 27th August 1978Write a fronted adverbial of place to start this sentence: '___, a fox was hiding.'
- 28th August 1978Give one synonym for 'happy'.
- 29th August 1978Identify the words marked by dashes: 'The exam - which lasted two hours - was very difficult.'
- 30th August 1978Explain why 'were' is used instead of 'was' in 'If I were a bird, I would fly south.'
- 31st August 1978Is a hyphen needed in 'state of the art technology' when it comes before the noun?