Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
October 1978 5-a-day
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- 1st October 1978Identify the modal verb in: 'You must wear a seatbelt in the car.'
- 2nd October 1978Identify the adjectives in the phrase 'the icy, silent lake'.
- 3rd October 1978Is 'Can't wait to see ya!' formal or informal?
- 4th October 1978Punctuate this list correctly: 'Bring the following items a book a pen and a snack.'
- 5th October 1978Sort this conjunction as coordinating or subordinating: 'although'.
- 6th October 1978Choose 'was' or 'were': 'He ___ waiting outside.'
- 7th October 1978Choose a or an: '___ university'
- 8th October 1978Add a comma to this fronted adverbial sentence: 'Every morning she feeds the chickens.'
- 9th October 1978Give one synonym for 'fast'.
- 10th October 1978Add a pair of dashes around the extra information: 'My uncle who lives in Leeds is visiting this weekend.'
- 11th October 1978Choose the correct form: 'The doctor recommends that she ___ (rest / rests) for a week.'
- 12th October 1978Choose the correctly hyphenated compound noun: 'mother in law' or 'mother-in-law'
- 13th October 1978The word 'steep' can describe a slope. Give an antonym for 'steep' as used in: 'The path up the hill was steep.'
- 14th October 1978Complete the word with ie or ei: 'fr _ _ nd'.
- 15th October 1978Turn 'easy' into an adverb of manner.
- 16th October 1978Add the correct form: 'the (dog) ___ bone' (one dog owns the bone)
- 17th October 1978Rewrite using a possessive pronoun: 'Those shoes are not my shoes.'
- 18th October 1978Write one sentence of your own using the adverb of possibility 'probably' correctly.
- 19th October 1978Choose the correct helper verb: 'They ___ (have/has) already left.'
- 20th October 1978Rewrite in the passive voice, dropping the 'by' agent for a more formal tone: 'Scientists discovered a new species.'
- 21st October 1978Does the sentence introducing a bulleted list need a colon at the end? 'Remember to bring the following'
- 22nd October 1978What does the word 'gloomy' suggest about a room's atmosphere?
- 23rd October 1978Rewrite putting the subordinate clause first: 'Ali finished his homework although he was tired.'
- 24th October 1978Give a synonym for 'said'.
- 25th October 1978Is a comma needed after 'Later' in 'Later we went home.'?
- 26th October 1978Combine: 'The cake was delicious. Grandma baked the cake.'
- 27th October 1978Identify the words marked by commas: 'The cake, which took three hours to bake, was delicious.'
- 28th October 1978Rewrite these two sentences as one, linking them with a cohesive device showing contrast: 'Jess loves maths. She finds English difficult.'
- 29th October 1978Explain why a semicolon, not a comma, is needed in 'I finished my homework; then I watched television.'
- 30th October 1978Add an apostrophe to show possession: 'The dogs collar was red.'
- 31st October 1978Put 'go' into the past simple (irregular).