Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
April 1973 5-a-day
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- 1st April 1973Choose the correct verb: 'Either the manager or the staff (is/are) responsible for the decision.'
- 2nd April 1973Explain in a few words how tone differs from register.
- 3rd April 1973Rewrite 'The company launched a new product' in the passive voice, omitting the doer.
- 4th April 1973Identify the punctuation mark used to introduce a quotation in: 'she said simply: it was time to leave.'
- 5th April 1973Choose the correct word: 'The dog wagged ___ tail.' (its / it's)
- 6th April 1973Identify both the auxiliary and the main verb in: 'We had been waiting for an hour.'
- 7th April 1973Which pronoun order is correct: 'turn it off' or 'turn off it'?
- 8th April 1973Rewrite 'The room was tidy' using a strong antonym to describe total disorder.
- 9th April 1973Give the noun form of the verb 'arrive'.
- 10th April 1973Punctuate this line with an interrupting reporting clause: i dont know she said ill try
- 11th April 1973Identify the rhyme scheme of a stanza rhyming light / night / sight / bite.
- 12th April 1973Should a new paragraph start every time the speaker changes?
- 13th April 1973Add the apostrophe correctly: 'The dogs bones were buried in the garden.' (more than one dog)
- 14th April 1973Which word shows more intensity: 'warm' or 'boiling'?
- 15th April 1973Identify the coordinating conjunction in: 'She studied hard, and she passed the exam, because she wanted to go to university.'
- 16th April 1973Identify the rhetorical pattern: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.'
- 17th April 1973State whether this is Fact or Opinion: 'Over 30 percent of students skip breakfast before school.'
- 18th April 1973Correct the error: 'He has been study since 9am.'
- 19th April 1973Complete: 'They ___ (walk) to school when it started to rain.'
- 20th April 1973Correct the tense error: 'He said he is happy.'
- 21st April 1973Identify the inverted phrase in 'Not only did she win the race, but she also broke the record.'
- 22nd April 1973Name one grammatical device, other than a discourse marker, that creates cohesion across paragraphs.
- 23rd April 1973Is this sentence simple, compound or complex? 'The rain fell.'
- 24th April 1973Explain the difference between a compound sentence and a complex sentence, using one example of each.
- 25th April 1973Rewrite as both a negative and a question: 'The train arrives at six.'
- 26th April 1973Complete: 'If you heat water to 100 degrees C, it ___ (boil).'
- 27th April 1973Explain in a few words why overusing 'and' as a connective can weaken writing.
- 28th April 1973Rewrite using a dash to add a sharp aside: 'The exam was hard, much harder than I expected.'
- 29th April 1973What word class is 'quiet' in 'a quiet street on the edge of town'?
- 30th April 1973Identify both clauses in: 'The team celebrated wildly after they had won the championship.'