Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
August 1986 5-a-day
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- 1st August 1986Combine using past continuous and past simple: 'I (eat) lunch. My friend (arrive).'
- 2nd August 1986Choose a or an: '___ dog'
- 3rd August 1986Is 'Slowly' a fronted adverbial in 'Slowly, the fog lifted.'?
- 4th August 1986Sort into synonyms and antonyms of 'loud': 'quiet, noisy, silent, deafening'.
- 5th August 1986Choose the correctly punctuated sentence. A) 'The storm - the worst in years, hit the coast.' B) 'The storm - the worst in years - hit the coast.'
- 6th August 1986Rewrite to use the subjunctive: 'I wish I was on holiday.'
- 7th August 1986Rewrite to remove the ambiguity using a hyphen: 'She has three year old children.' (meaning children who are three years old)
- 8th August 1986Give an antonym for 'generous' in: 'She gave a generous donation.'
- 9th August 1986Add the prefix un- to 'happy' to make its opposite.
- 10th August 1986Turn 'slow' into an adverb of manner.
- 11th August 1986Add the correct form: 'my (sister) ___ bike' (one sister)
- 12th August 1986Correct the error: 'This is her's coat.'
- 13th August 1986Which adverb shows stronger certainty: 'possibly' or 'definitely'?
- 14th August 1986Rewrite in the present perfect using 'already': 'We eat lunch.'
- 15th August 1986Is this sentence active or passive? 'The chef cooked the dinner.'
- 16th August 1986Should these short-phrase bullet points end in full stops? 'milk, eggs, bread' (as three separate bullets)
- 17th August 1986Summarise this in one sentence: 'Maya searched the house for an hour, checked the garden twice, and finally found her keys under the sofa cushion.'
- 18th August 1986Underline the subordinating conjunction: 'We will go to the park if it stops raining.'
- 19th August 1986Give a synonym for 'happy'.
- 20th August 1986Add a comma: 'Beneath the old bridge a family of ducks lived quietly.'
- 21st August 1986Combine: 'The book is on the table. The book belongs to Ali.'
- 22nd August 1986Explain the error in this sentence and correct it: 'The film, which won an award was very long.'
- 23rd August 1986Fill the gap with a cohesive device showing cause and effect: 'It rained heavily. ___, the match was cancelled.'
- 24th August 1986Join with a semicolon: 'The match was cancelled. The pitch was flooded.'
- 25th August 1986Insert a colon in the correct place: 'She needed one thing for the exam a pen.'
- 26th August 1986Choose present or past simple: 'The sun ___ (rise) in the east.'
- 27th August 1986Add the possessive apostrophe: 'the boys football' (two boys)
- 28th August 1986Change to Standard English: 'She don't like carrots.'
- 29th August 1986Correct the word order: 'I go sometimes swimming on Saturdays.'
- 30th August 1986Add brackets around the extra information: 'The recipe which serves four people takes an hour to cook.'
- 31st August 1986Give the superlative form of 'good' (an irregular adjective).