Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
October 1985 5-a-day
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- 1st October 1985Give a more formal synonym for 'big' in the sentence 'It was a big decision.'
- 2nd October 1985Is a newspaper report fiction or non-fiction?
- 3rd October 1985Choose the correct prepositions: 'The meeting is ___ Monday ___ 9 o'clock.'
- 4th October 1985Punctuate: the teacher said well done everyone
- 5th October 1985Choose the correct pronoun: 'Give the book to ___ (I/me).'
- 6th October 1985Choose the modal verb that shows strong obligation: 'You ___ hand in your homework by Friday.' (can/must)
- 7th October 1985Choose the correctly punctuated expanded noun phrase. A) 'the bright, colourful, kite' B) 'the bright, colourful kite'
- 8th October 1985Rewrite 'gonna' in a formal register.
- 9th October 1985Is a colon correctly placed here? 'You will need: a pencil, a ruler and a rubber.'
- 10th October 1985Is this sentence simple, compound or complex? 'The dog barked and the cat hissed.'
- 11th October 1985Put 'play' into the past continuous for 'they'.
- 12th October 1985Choose a or an: '___ European country'
- 13th October 1985Rewrite 'The waves crashed loudly against the rocks all night.' starting with a fronted adverbial of manner.
- 14th October 1985Give one antonym for 'happy'.
- 15th October 1985Explain the difference in tone between using dashes and using brackets for the same information.
- 16th October 1985Rewrite to use the subjunctive: 'The teacher insists that he does his homework.'
- 17th October 1985Add a hyphen to make this compound adjective correct: 'a well known scientist'
- 18th October 1985Give a formal antonym for 'ambiguous' in: 'Her explanation was ambiguous.'
- 19th October 1985Add -ible or -able to 'comfort' to make an adjective.
- 20th October 1985Turn 'gentle' into an adverb of manner.
- 21st October 1985Correct this sentence if there is more than one bird: 'The bird's flew away.'
- 22nd October 1985Fill the gap with a possessive pronoun: 'The red car is ___, not John's.'
- 23rd October 1985Rewrite this sentence placing the adverb of possibility at the start with correct punctuation: 'We are certainly going to win.'
- 24th October 1985Give the past participle used in: 'He has ___ (go) to the shop.'
- 25th October 1985Identify the passive verb phrase in this sentence: 'The bridge is being repaired by engineers.'
- 26th October 1985Is this list grammatically parallel? '- walk the dog - to feed the cat - washing the car'
- 27th October 1985Tick one box: is a novel an example of fiction or non-fiction?
- 28th October 1985Which conjunction fits: '___ the sun was shining, Mia put on her coat.'
- 29th October 1985Give a synonym for 'fast'.
- 30th October 1985Add a comma: 'In the end everyone agreed.'
- 31st October 1985Choose the correct relative pronoun: 'This is the teacher ___ taught me to read.'