Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
May 1989 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1989Rewrite the plain noun phrase 'the storm' as a fully expanded noun phrase with adjectives before and a phrase after.
- 2nd May 1989Which is the formal version: 'Please could you assist me' or 'Give us a hand'?
- 3rd May 1989Explain why a colon, not a comma, is used in 'The recipe needs three things: flour, eggs and milk.'
- 4th May 1989Find and copy one adjective from this sentence: 'The tall, narrow lighthouse stood on the cliff.'
- 5th May 1989Combine using past continuous and past simple: 'I (eat) lunch. My friend (arrive).'
- 6th May 1989Choose a or an: '___ dog'
- 7th May 1989Is 'Slowly' a fronted adverbial in 'Slowly, the fog lifted.'?
- 8th May 1989Sort into synonyms and antonyms of 'loud': 'quiet, noisy, silent, deafening'.
- 9th May 1989Choose the correctly punctuated sentence. A) 'The storm - the worst in years, hit the coast.' B) 'The storm - the worst in years - hit the coast.'
- 10th May 1989Rewrite to use the subjunctive: 'I wish I was on holiday.'
- 11th May 1989Rewrite to remove the ambiguity using a hyphen: 'She has three year old children.' (meaning children who are three years old)
- 12th May 1989Give an antonym for 'generous' in: 'She gave a generous donation.'
- 13th May 1989Add the prefix un- to 'happy' to make its opposite.
- 14th May 1989Turn 'slow' into an adverb of manner.
- 15th May 1989Add the correct form: 'my (sister) ___ bike' (one sister)
- 16th May 1989Correct the error: 'This is her's coat.'
- 17th May 1989Which adverb shows stronger certainty: 'possibly' or 'definitely'?
- 18th May 1989Rewrite in the present perfect using 'already': 'We eat lunch.'
- 19th May 1989Is this sentence active or passive? 'The chef cooked the dinner.'
- 20th May 1989Should these short-phrase bullet points end in full stops? 'milk, eggs, bread' (as three separate bullets)
- 21st May 1989Summarise this in one sentence: 'Maya searched the house for an hour, checked the garden twice, and finally found her keys under the sofa cushion.'
- 22nd May 1989Underline the subordinating conjunction: 'We will go to the park if it stops raining.'
- 23rd May 1989Give a synonym for 'happy'.
- 24th May 1989Add a comma: 'Beneath the old bridge a family of ducks lived quietly.'
- 25th May 1989Combine: 'The book is on the table. The book belongs to Ali.'
- 26th May 1989Explain the error in this sentence and correct it: 'The film, which won an award was very long.'
- 27th May 1989Fill the gap with a cohesive device showing cause and effect: 'It rained heavily. ___, the match was cancelled.'
- 28th May 1989Join with a semicolon: 'The match was cancelled. The pitch was flooded.'
- 29th May 1989Insert a colon in the correct place: 'She needed one thing for the exam a pen.'
- 30th May 1989Choose present or past simple: 'The sun ___ (rise) in the east.'
- 31st May 1989Add the possessive apostrophe: 'the boys football' (two boys)