Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
August 1987 5-a-day
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- 1st August 1987Choose the correctly punctuated sentence. A) 'The film (was two hours long.) was boring.' B) 'The film (was two hours long) was boring.'
- 2nd August 1987Give the comparative form of 'small'.
- 3rd August 1987Does this sentence have an object? 'The children laughed loudly.'
- 4th August 1987Give a more formal synonym for 'get' in 'We need to get more information.'
- 5th August 1987According to the sentence 'Scientists recorded a rise of nearly two degrees over the decade', by roughly how much did the temperature rise?
- 6th August 1987Rewrite using a preposition of place: 'The ball is (inside) the box.'
- 7th August 1987Identify the reporting clause in: "I am tired," sighed Max.
- 8th August 1987Identify the pronoun in this sentence and the noun it replaces: 'Layla found her keys after she searched the whole house.'
- 9th August 1987Rewrite to show permission rather than ability: 'I can go to the party.'
- 10th August 1987Expand the noun phrase 'the house' by adding two adjectives before it.
- 11th August 1987Identify the informal word in: 'Yeah, that's totally fine mate.'
- 12th August 1987Add a colon in the correct place: 'He had one goal win the trophy.'
- 13th August 1987What word class is 'quickly' in 'She ran quickly across the field'?
- 14th August 1987Put 'sleep' into the past continuous for 'she'.
- 15th August 1987Choose a or an: '___ honest answer'
- 16th August 1987Write a fronted adverbial of place to start this sentence: '___, a fox was hiding.'
- 17th August 1987Give one synonym for 'happy'.
- 18th August 1987Identify the words marked by dashes: 'The exam - which lasted two hours - was very difficult.'
- 19th August 1987Explain why 'were' is used instead of 'was' in 'If I were a bird, I would fly south.'
- 20th August 1987Is a hyphen needed in 'state of the art technology' when it comes before the noun?
- 21st August 1987Replace 'brave' with its antonym in: 'The knight was brave in battle.'
- 22nd August 1987Circle the correctly spelled word: definitely / definately / defiantly.
- 23rd August 1987Add an adverb of manner formed from 'loud' to: 'He shut the door.'
- 24th August 1987Add the correct form: 'the (girls) ___ coats' (several girls)
- 25th August 1987Is 'its' a possessive pronoun or a possessive adjective in 'The cat licked its paw'?
- 26th August 1987Rewrite to add an adverb showing low certainty: 'It will snow this weekend.'
- 27th August 1987Identify the present perfect verb in: 'She has finished her homework.'
- 28th August 1987Rewrite in the active voice: 'The trophy was lifted by the captain.'
- 29th August 1987Punctuate this bullet as a full sentence: 'the dog barked loudly' (as a standalone bulleted sentence)
- 30th August 1987Give one piece of evidence a reader could use to show a character is nervous, from the phrase 'her hands trembled as she opened the letter'.
- 31st August 1987Combine using 'when': 'The bell rang. The children lined up.'