Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
September 1979 5-a-day
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Every sheet in September 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1979Change to a reported question: She asked, 'Where do you live?'
- 2nd September 1979Which type of word usually moves to the front in inversion for emphasis?
- 3rd September 1979Identify the discourse marker in this paragraph opening: 'Similarly, the poet uses colour imagery to convey loss.'
- 4th September 1979Punctuate this line of speech correctly: wait she called we forgot the map
- 5th September 1979Is this sentence simple, compound or complex: 'Although it was cold, the children played outside.'?
- 6th September 1979Fill the gap with the missing auxiliary verb: 'We ___ not eaten breakfast.'
- 7th September 1979Complete: 'If it is sunny tomorrow, we ___ (go) to the beach.'
- 8th September 1979Choose the best connective to fill the gap: 'The plan was risky; _____, the team decided to go ahead.'
- 9th September 1979Identify the punctuation for effect in this sentence: 'She opened the door slowly... and screamed.'
- 10th September 1979Name the punctuation mark used to introduce direct speech in: 'the mayor said: it was a difficult decision.'
- 11th September 1979Combine into one sentence using a subordinate clause: 'The film started. We arrived late.'
- 12th September 1979Turn the adjective 'brave' into an abstract noun.
- 13th September 1979Choose the correct verb: 'The children (plays/play) outside every day.'
- 14th September 1979Identify the tone of 'I cannot believe you actually thought that would work.'
- 15th September 1979Rewrite 'The chef cooked the meal' in the passive voice.
- 16th September 1979Name the language technique in 'the wind howled through the trees'.
- 17th September 1979State whether this is a simple or compound sentence: 'The rain stopped and the sun came out.'
- 18th September 1979Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'They are playing football.'
- 19th September 1979Explain why 'look after' cannot be split, using the example 'look after the dog.'
- 20th September 1979Explain in a few words why 'chilly' is a weaker antonym of 'boiling' than 'freezing'.
- 21st September 1979Give the noun form of the verb 'discover'.
- 22nd September 1979Identify the punctuation error: "Come here." he whispered.
- 23rd September 1979State the term for when a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
- 24th September 1979Is it correct to write two different speakers' lines on the same line, one after the other?
- 25th September 1979Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
- 26th September 1979Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
- 27th September 1979Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'
- 28th September 1979Explain in one sentence why writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing.
- 29th September 1979Give two features of a formal letter's layout that would be missing from an informal text message.
- 30th September 1979Choose the correct form: 'By the time we got to the cinema, the film ___ (play) for ten minutes.'