Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
July 1970 5-a-day
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- 1st July 1970Join these using past continuous plus past simple: 'We were eating dinner.' / 'The lights went out.'
- 2nd July 1970Change to a reported question: She asked, 'Where do you live?'
- 3rd July 1970Which type of word usually moves to the front in inversion for emphasis?
- 4th July 1970Identify the discourse marker in this paragraph opening: 'Similarly, the poet uses colour imagery to convey loss.'
- 5th July 1970Punctuate this line of speech correctly: wait she called we forgot the map
- 6th July 1970Is this sentence simple, compound or complex: 'Although it was cold, the children played outside.'?
- 7th July 1970Fill the gap with the missing auxiliary verb: 'We ___ not eaten breakfast.'
- 8th July 1970Complete: 'If it is sunny tomorrow, we ___ (go) to the beach.'
- 9th July 1970Choose the best connective to fill the gap: 'The plan was risky; _____, the team decided to go ahead.'
- 10th July 1970Identify the punctuation for effect in this sentence: 'She opened the door slowly... and screamed.'
- 11th July 1970Name the punctuation mark used to introduce direct speech in: 'the mayor said: it was a difficult decision.'
- 12th July 1970Combine into one sentence using a subordinate clause: 'The film started. We arrived late.'
- 13th July 1970Turn the adjective 'brave' into an abstract noun.
- 14th July 1970Choose the correct verb: 'The children (plays/play) outside every day.'
- 15th July 1970Identify the tone of 'I cannot believe you actually thought that would work.'
- 16th July 1970Rewrite 'The chef cooked the meal' in the passive voice.
- 17th July 1970Name the language technique in 'the wind howled through the trees'.
- 18th July 1970State whether this is a simple or compound sentence: 'The rain stopped and the sun came out.'
- 19th July 1970Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'They are playing football.'
- 20th July 1970Explain why 'look after' cannot be split, using the example 'look after the dog.'
- 21st July 1970Explain in a few words why 'chilly' is a weaker antonym of 'boiling' than 'freezing'.
- 22nd July 1970Give the noun form of the verb 'discover'.
- 23rd July 1970Identify the punctuation error: "Come here." he whispered.
- 24th July 1970State the term for when a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
- 25th July 1970Is it correct to write two different speakers' lines on the same line, one after the other?
- 26th July 1970Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
- 27th July 1970Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
- 28th July 1970Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'
- 29th July 1970Explain in one sentence why writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing.
- 30th July 1970Give two features of a formal letter's layout that would be missing from an informal text message.
- 31st July 1970Choose the correct form: 'By the time we got to the cinema, the film ___ (play) for ten minutes.'