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November 1959 5-a-day

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November 1959

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-9

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  1. 1st November 1959Combine into one sentence using a subordinate clause: 'The film started. We arrived late.'
  2. 2nd November 1959Turn the adjective 'brave' into an abstract noun.
  3. 3rd November 1959Choose the correct verb: 'The children (plays/play) outside every day.'
  4. 4th November 1959Identify the tone of 'I cannot believe you actually thought that would work.'
  5. 5th November 1959Rewrite 'The chef cooked the meal' in the passive voice.
  6. 6th November 1959Name the language technique in 'the wind howled through the trees'.
  7. 7th November 1959State whether this is a simple or compound sentence: 'The rain stopped and the sun came out.'
  8. 8th November 1959Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'They are playing football.'
  9. 9th November 1959Explain why 'look after' cannot be split, using the example 'look after the dog.'
  10. 10th November 1959Explain in a few words why 'chilly' is a weaker antonym of 'boiling' than 'freezing'.
  11. 11th November 1959Give the noun form of the verb 'discover'.
  12. 12th November 1959Identify the punctuation error: "Come here." he whispered.
  13. 13th November 1959State the term for when a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
  14. 14th November 1959Is it correct to write two different speakers' lines on the same line, one after the other?
  15. 15th November 1959Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
  16. 16th November 1959Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
  17. 17th November 1959Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'
  18. 18th November 1959Explain in one sentence why writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing.
  19. 19th November 1959Give two features of a formal letter's layout that would be missing from an informal text message.
  20. 20th November 1959Choose the correct form: 'By the time we got to the cinema, the film ___ (play) for ten minutes.'
  21. 21st November 1959Explain why 'was swimming' is correct but 'was swiming' is not.
  22. 22nd November 1959Change the time word: Direct speech: 'I will call you tomorrow,' he said. Which time word replaces 'tomorrow' in reported speech?
  23. 23rd November 1959Rewrite 'He had rarely seen such courage' using inversion.
  24. 24th November 1959Explain in one sentence why an essay with no linking words between paragraphs might lose marks for cohesion.
  25. 25th November 1959Write an expanded noun phrase (at least two describing words) for 'the forest at dawn'.
  26. 26th November 1959Add a subordinate clause to make this a complex sentence: 'The teacher praised the pupil ___.'
  27. 27th November 1959Make this sentence negative: 'I saw the letter.'
  28. 28th November 1959Complete: 'If she had left earlier, she ___ (not miss) the train.'
  29. 29th November 1959Give one connective that shows cause and effect.
  30. 30th November 1959Which punctuation mark links two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction: a comma, a semicolon or a full stop?

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