Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
October 1981 5-a-day
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- 1st October 1981Find and copy one adjective from this sentence: 'The tall, narrow lighthouse stood on the cliff.'
- 2nd October 1981Combine using past continuous and past simple: 'I (eat) lunch. My friend (arrive).'
- 3rd October 1981Choose a or an: '___ dog'
- 4th October 1981Is 'Slowly' a fronted adverbial in 'Slowly, the fog lifted.'?
- 5th October 1981Sort into synonyms and antonyms of 'loud': 'quiet, noisy, silent, deafening'.
- 6th October 1981Choose the correctly punctuated sentence. A) 'The storm - the worst in years, hit the coast.' B) 'The storm - the worst in years - hit the coast.'
- 7th October 1981Rewrite to use the subjunctive: 'I wish I was on holiday.'
- 8th October 1981Rewrite to remove the ambiguity using a hyphen: 'She has three year old children.' (meaning children who are three years old)
- 9th October 1981Give an antonym for 'generous' in: 'She gave a generous donation.'
- 10th October 1981Add the prefix un- to 'happy' to make its opposite.
- 11th October 1981Turn 'slow' into an adverb of manner.
- 12th October 1981Add the correct form: 'my (sister) ___ bike' (one sister)
- 13th October 1981Correct the error: 'This is her's coat.'
- 14th October 1981Which adverb shows stronger certainty: 'possibly' or 'definitely'?
- 15th October 1981Rewrite in the present perfect using 'already': 'We eat lunch.'
- 16th October 1981Is this sentence active or passive? 'The chef cooked the dinner.'
- 17th October 1981Should these short-phrase bullet points end in full stops? 'milk, eggs, bread' (as three separate bullets)
- 18th October 1981Summarise this in one sentence: 'Maya searched the house for an hour, checked the garden twice, and finally found her keys under the sofa cushion.'
- 19th October 1981Underline the subordinating conjunction: 'We will go to the park if it stops raining.'
- 20th October 1981Give a synonym for 'happy'.
- 21st October 1981Add a comma: 'Beneath the old bridge a family of ducks lived quietly.'
- 22nd October 1981Combine: 'The book is on the table. The book belongs to Ali.'
- 23rd October 1981Explain the error in this sentence and correct it: 'The film, which won an award was very long.'
- 24th October 1981Fill the gap with a cohesive device showing cause and effect: 'It rained heavily. ___, the match was cancelled.'
- 25th October 1981Join with a semicolon: 'The match was cancelled. The pitch was flooded.'
- 26th October 1981Insert a colon in the correct place: 'She needed one thing for the exam a pen.'
- 27th October 1981Choose present or past simple: 'The sun ___ (rise) in the east.'
- 28th October 1981Add the possessive apostrophe: 'the boys football' (two boys)
- 29th October 1981Change to Standard English: 'She don't like carrots.'
- 30th October 1981Correct the word order: 'I go sometimes swimming on Saturdays.'
- 31st October 1981Add brackets around the extra information: 'The recipe which serves four people takes an hour to cook.'