Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
November 1960 5-a-day
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- 1st November 1960Is this sentence simple, compound or complex: 'Although it was cold, the children played outside.'?
- 2nd November 1960Fill the gap with the missing auxiliary verb: 'We ___ not eaten breakfast.'
- 3rd November 1960Complete: 'If it is sunny tomorrow, we ___ (go) to the beach.'
- 4th November 1960Choose the best connective to fill the gap: 'The plan was risky; _____, the team decided to go ahead.'
- 5th November 1960Identify the punctuation for effect in this sentence: 'She opened the door slowly... and screamed.'
- 6th November 1960Name the punctuation mark used to introduce direct speech in: 'the mayor said: it was a difficult decision.'
- 7th November 1960Combine into one sentence using a subordinate clause: 'The film started. We arrived late.'
- 8th November 1960Turn the adjective 'brave' into an abstract noun.
- 9th November 1960Choose the correct verb: 'The children (plays/play) outside every day.'
- 10th November 1960Identify the tone of 'I cannot believe you actually thought that would work.'
- 11th November 1960Rewrite 'The chef cooked the meal' in the passive voice.
- 12th November 1960Name the language technique in 'the wind howled through the trees'.
- 13th November 1960State whether this is a simple or compound sentence: 'The rain stopped and the sun came out.'
- 14th November 1960Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'They are playing football.'
- 15th November 1960Explain why 'look after' cannot be split, using the example 'look after the dog.'
- 16th November 1960Explain in a few words why 'chilly' is a weaker antonym of 'boiling' than 'freezing'.
- 17th November 1960Give the noun form of the verb 'discover'.
- 18th November 1960Identify the punctuation error: "Come here." he whispered.
- 19th November 1960State the term for when a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
- 20th November 1960Is it correct to write two different speakers' lines on the same line, one after the other?
- 21st November 1960Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
- 22nd November 1960Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
- 23rd November 1960Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'
- 24th November 1960Explain in one sentence why writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing.
- 25th November 1960Give two features of a formal letter's layout that would be missing from an informal text message.
- 26th November 1960Choose the correct form: 'By the time we got to the cinema, the film ___ (play) for ten minutes.'
- 27th November 1960Explain why 'was swimming' is correct but 'was swiming' is not.
- 28th November 1960Change the time word: Direct speech: 'I will call you tomorrow,' he said. Which time word replaces 'tomorrow' in reported speech?
- 29th November 1960Rewrite 'He had rarely seen such courage' using inversion.
- 30th November 1960Explain in one sentence why an essay with no linking words between paragraphs might lose marks for cohesion.