Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
March 1978 5-a-day
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- 1st March 1978Name the punctuation mark used to introduce direct speech in: 'the mayor said: it was a difficult decision.'
- 2nd March 1978Combine into one sentence using a subordinate clause: 'The film started. We arrived late.'
- 3rd March 1978Turn the adjective 'brave' into an abstract noun.
- 4th March 1978Choose the correct verb: 'The children (plays/play) outside every day.'
- 5th March 1978Identify the tone of 'I cannot believe you actually thought that would work.'
- 6th March 1978Rewrite 'The chef cooked the meal' in the passive voice.
- 7th March 1978Name the language technique in 'the wind howled through the trees'.
- 8th March 1978State whether this is a simple or compound sentence: 'The rain stopped and the sun came out.'
- 9th March 1978Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'They are playing football.'
- 10th March 1978Explain why 'look after' cannot be split, using the example 'look after the dog.'
- 11th March 1978Explain in a few words why 'chilly' is a weaker antonym of 'boiling' than 'freezing'.
- 12th March 1978Give the noun form of the verb 'discover'.
- 13th March 1978Identify the punctuation error: "Come here." he whispered.
- 14th March 1978State the term for when a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
- 15th March 1978Is it correct to write two different speakers' lines on the same line, one after the other?
- 16th March 1978Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
- 17th March 1978Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
- 18th March 1978Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'
- 19th March 1978Explain in one sentence why writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing.
- 20th March 1978Give two features of a formal letter's layout that would be missing from an informal text message.
- 21st March 1978Choose the correct form: 'By the time we got to the cinema, the film ___ (play) for ten minutes.'
- 22nd March 1978Explain why 'was swimming' is correct but 'was swiming' is not.
- 23rd March 1978Change the time word: Direct speech: 'I will call you tomorrow,' he said. Which time word replaces 'tomorrow' in reported speech?
- 24th March 1978Rewrite 'He had rarely seen such courage' using inversion.
- 25th March 1978Explain in one sentence why an essay with no linking words between paragraphs might lose marks for cohesion.
- 26th March 1978Write an expanded noun phrase (at least two describing words) for 'the forest at dawn'.
- 27th March 1978Add a subordinate clause to make this a complex sentence: 'The teacher praised the pupil ___.'
- 28th March 1978Make this sentence negative: 'I saw the letter.'
- 29th March 1978Complete: 'If she had left earlier, she ___ (not miss) the train.'
- 30th March 1978Give one connective that shows cause and effect.
- 31st March 1978Which punctuation mark links two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction: a comma, a semicolon or a full stop?