Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
May 1979 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1979Identify the informal word in: 'Yeah, that's totally fine mate.'
- 2nd May 1979Add a colon in the correct place: 'He had one goal win the trophy.'
- 3rd May 1979What word class is 'quickly' in 'She ran quickly across the field'?
- 4th May 1979Put 'sleep' into the past continuous for 'she'.
- 5th May 1979Choose a or an: '___ honest answer'
- 6th May 1979Write a fronted adverbial of place to start this sentence: '___, a fox was hiding.'
- 7th May 1979Give one synonym for 'happy'.
- 8th May 1979Identify the words marked by dashes: 'The exam - which lasted two hours - was very difficult.'
- 9th May 1979Explain why 'were' is used instead of 'was' in 'If I were a bird, I would fly south.'
- 10th May 1979Is a hyphen needed in 'state of the art technology' when it comes before the noun?
- 11th May 1979Replace 'brave' with its antonym in: 'The knight was brave in battle.'
- 12th May 1979Circle the correctly spelled word: definitely / definately / defiantly.
- 13th May 1979Add an adverb of manner formed from 'loud' to: 'He shut the door.'
- 14th May 1979Add the correct form: 'the (girls) ___ coats' (several girls)
- 15th May 1979Is 'its' a possessive pronoun or a possessive adjective in 'The cat licked its paw'?
- 16th May 1979Rewrite to add an adverb showing low certainty: 'It will snow this weekend.'
- 17th May 1979Identify the present perfect verb in: 'She has finished her homework.'
- 18th May 1979Rewrite in the active voice: 'The trophy was lifted by the captain.'
- 19th May 1979Punctuate this bullet as a full sentence: 'the dog barked loudly' (as a standalone bulleted sentence)
- 20th May 1979Give 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'.
- 21st May 1979Combine using 'when': 'The bell rang. The children lined up.'
- 22nd May 1979Give a synonym for 'scared'.
- 23rd May 1979Add a comma: 'Without any hesitation she jumped in.'
- 24th May 1979Choose the correct relative pronoun: 'The dog ___ barked all night belongs to my neighbour.'
- 25th May 1979Rewrite this sentence adding the parenthesis 'a keen gardener' using commas: 'My grandad grows his own vegetables.'
- 26th May 1979Choose a cohesive device to link these sentences showing time order: 'We ate dinner. ___ we watched a film.'
- 27th May 1979Correct the punctuation: 'She was tired, she went to bed early.'
- 28th May 1979Underline the verb in this sentence: 'The dog barked loudly at the postman.'
- 29th May 1979Explain the tense error in: 'Every day she cooked dinner for her family, then yesterday she cooks again.'
- 30th May 1979Correct this sentence if it only has one girl: 'The girls' bag was red.'
- 31st May 1979Which is Standard English: 'They was late' or 'They were late'?