Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
March 1987 5-a-day
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- 1st March 1987Rewrite 'The waves crashed loudly against the rocks all night.' starting with a fronted adverbial of manner.
- 2nd March 1987Give one antonym for 'happy'.
- 3rd March 1987Explain the difference in tone between using dashes and using brackets for the same information.
- 4th March 1987Rewrite to use the subjunctive: 'The teacher insists that he does his homework.'
- 5th March 1987Add a hyphen to make this compound adjective correct: 'a well known scientist'
- 6th March 1987Give a formal antonym for 'ambiguous' in: 'Her explanation was ambiguous.'
- 7th March 1987Add -ible or -able to 'comfort' to make an adjective.
- 8th March 1987Turn 'gentle' into an adverb of manner.
- 9th March 1987Correct this sentence if there is more than one bird: 'The bird's flew away.'
- 10th March 1987Fill the gap with a possessive pronoun: 'The red car is ___, not John's.'
- 11th March 1987Rewrite this sentence placing the adverb of possibility at the start with correct punctuation: 'We are certainly going to win.'
- 12th March 1987Give the past participle used in: 'He has ___ (go) to the shop.'
- 13th March 1987Identify the passive verb phrase in this sentence: 'The bridge is being repaired by engineers.'
- 14th March 1987Is this list grammatically parallel? '- walk the dog - to feed the cat - washing the car'
- 15th March 1987Tick one box: is a novel an example of fiction or non-fiction?
- 16th March 1987Which conjunction fits: '___ the sun was shining, Mia put on her coat.'
- 17th March 1987Give a synonym for 'fast'.
- 18th March 1987Add a comma: 'In the end everyone agreed.'
- 19th March 1987Choose the correct relative pronoun: 'This is the teacher ___ taught me to read.'
- 20th March 1987Choose the correctly punctuated sentence. A) 'The match, postponed twice was finally played.' B) 'The match, postponed twice, was finally played.'
- 21st March 1987Identify the cohesive device in: 'Meanwhile, the other team were warming up.'
- 22nd March 1987Is a semicolon correct here: 'Although it was raining; we went outside.'
- 23rd March 1987Rewrite this sentence in the passive voice: 'The wind knocked over the fence.'
- 24th March 1987Correct the tense error: 'Last week I go to the cinema.'
- 25th March 1987Is the apostrophe correct in 'The dog's bowl is empty' (one dog)?
- 26th March 1987Change to Standard English: 'We seen the film last night.'
- 27th March 1987Which position is correct for 'usually' with the verb 'to be': before or after?
- 28th March 1987Rewrite the sentence adding the parenthesis 'my best friend' using brackets: 'Chloe came to my party.'
- 29th March 1987Give the superlative form of 'small'.
- 30th March 1987Replace the subject with the correct subject pronoun: 'My grandad tells great stories.'
- 31st March 1987Explain why 'kids' would usually be replaced with a formal synonym in an essay, and give one.