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December 1996 - Key Stage 2 5-a-day
Every Key Stage 2 sheet published in December 1996, with answers. Years 3-6 - spelling patterns, word classes, punctuation and comprehension.
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Every sheet in December 1996
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- 1st December 1996Identify the modal verb in: 'She could swim before she was five.'
- 2nd December 1996Rewrite the plain noun phrase 'the storm' as a fully expanded noun phrase with adjectives before and a phrase after.
- 3rd December 1996Which is the formal version: 'Please could you assist me' or 'Give us a hand'?
- 4th December 1996Explain why a colon, not a comma, is used in 'The recipe needs three things: flour, eggs and milk.'
- 5th December 1996Find and copy one adjective from this sentence: 'The tall, narrow lighthouse stood on the cliff.'
- 6th December 1996Combine using past continuous and past simple: 'I (eat) lunch. My friend (arrive).'
- 7th December 1996Choose a or an: '___ dog'
- 8th December 1996Is 'Slowly' a fronted adverbial in 'Slowly, the fog lifted.'?
- 9th December 1996Sort into synonyms and antonyms of 'loud': 'quiet, noisy, silent, deafening'.
- 10th December 1996Choose the correctly punctuated sentence. A) 'The storm - the worst in years, hit the coast.' B) 'The storm - the worst in years - hit the coast.'
- 11th December 1996Rewrite to use the subjunctive: 'I wish I was on holiday.'
- 12th December 1996Rewrite to remove the ambiguity using a hyphen: 'She has three year old children.' (meaning children who are three years old)
- 13th December 1996Give an antonym for 'generous' in: 'She gave a generous donation.'
- 14th December 1996Add the prefix un- to 'happy' to make its opposite.
- 15th December 1996Turn 'slow' into an adverb of manner.
- 16th December 1996Add the correct form: 'my (sister) ___ bike' (one sister)
- 17th December 1996Correct the error: 'This is her's coat.'
- 18th December 1996Which adverb shows stronger certainty: 'possibly' or 'definitely'?
- 19th December 1996Rewrite in the present perfect using 'already': 'We eat lunch.'
- 20th December 1996Is this sentence active or passive? 'The chef cooked the dinner.'
- 21st December 1996Should these short-phrase bullet points end in full stops? 'milk, eggs, bread' (as three separate bullets)
- 22nd December 1996Summarise this in one sentence: 'Maya searched the house for an hour, checked the garden twice, and finally found her keys under the sofa cushion.'
- 23rd December 1996Underline the subordinating conjunction: 'We will go to the park if it stops raining.'
- 24th December 1996Give a synonym for 'happy'.
- 25th December 1996Add a comma: 'Beneath the old bridge a family of ducks lived quietly.'
- 26th December 1996Combine: 'The book is on the table. The book belongs to Ali.'
- 27th December 1996Explain the error in this sentence and correct it: 'The film, which won an award was very long.'
- 28th December 1996Fill the gap with a cohesive device showing cause and effect: 'It rained heavily. ___, the match was cancelled.'
- 29th December 1996Join with a semicolon: 'The match was cancelled. The pitch was flooded.'
- 30th December 1996Insert a colon in the correct place: 'She needed one thing for the exam a pen.'
- 31st December 1996Choose present or past simple: 'The sun ___ (rise) in the east.'