Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
August 1979 5-a-day
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- 1st August 1979Rewrite to use the subjunctive: 'The teacher insists that he does his homework.'
- 2nd August 1979Add a hyphen to make this compound adjective correct: 'a well known scientist'
- 3rd August 1979Give a formal antonym for 'ambiguous' in: 'Her explanation was ambiguous.'
- 4th August 1979Add -ible or -able to 'comfort' to make an adjective.
- 5th August 1979Turn 'gentle' into an adverb of manner.
- 6th August 1979Correct this sentence if there is more than one bird: 'The bird's flew away.'
- 7th August 1979Fill the gap with a possessive pronoun: 'The red car is ___, not John's.'
- 8th August 1979Rewrite this sentence placing the adverb of possibility at the start with correct punctuation: 'We are certainly going to win.'
- 9th August 1979Give the past participle used in: 'He has ___ (go) to the shop.'
- 10th August 1979Identify the passive verb phrase in this sentence: 'The bridge is being repaired by engineers.'
- 11th August 1979Is this list grammatically parallel? '- walk the dog - to feed the cat - washing the car'
- 12th August 1979Tick one box: is a novel an example of fiction or non-fiction?
- 13th August 1979Which conjunction fits: '___ the sun was shining, Mia put on her coat.'
- 14th August 1979Give a synonym for 'fast'.
- 15th August 1979Add a comma: 'In the end everyone agreed.'
- 16th August 1979Choose the correct relative pronoun: 'This is the teacher ___ taught me to read.'
- 17th August 1979Choose the correctly punctuated sentence. A) 'The match, postponed twice was finally played.' B) 'The match, postponed twice, was finally played.'
- 18th August 1979Identify the cohesive device in: 'Meanwhile, the other team were warming up.'
- 19th August 1979Is a semicolon correct here: 'Although it was raining; we went outside.'
- 20th August 1979Rewrite this sentence in the passive voice: 'The wind knocked over the fence.'
- 21st August 1979Correct the tense error: 'Last week I go to the cinema.'
- 22nd August 1979Is the apostrophe correct in 'The dog's bowl is empty' (one dog)?
- 23rd August 1979Change to Standard English: 'We seen the film last night.'
- 24th August 1979Which position is correct for 'usually' with the verb 'to be': before or after?
- 25th August 1979Rewrite the sentence adding the parenthesis 'my best friend' using brackets: 'Chloe came to my party.'
- 26th August 1979Give the superlative form of 'small'.
- 27th August 1979Replace the subject with the correct subject pronoun: 'My grandad tells great stories.'
- 28th August 1979Explain why 'kids' would usually be replaced with a formal synonym in an essay, and give one.
- 29th August 1979Tick true or false: a fact file usually appears in full sentences and paragraphs.
- 30th August 1979Choose the time preposition: 'We eat breakfast ___ 8 o'clock.'
- 31st August 1979Punctuate: mrs khan said sit down please