Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
October 1981 5-a-day
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- 1st October 1981Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'They are playing football.'
- 2nd October 1981Explain why 'look after' cannot be split, using the example 'look after the dog.'
- 3rd October 1981Explain in a few words why 'chilly' is a weaker antonym of 'boiling' than 'freezing'.
- 4th October 1981Give the noun form of the verb 'discover'.
- 5th October 1981Identify the punctuation error: "Come here." he whispered.
- 6th October 1981State the term for when a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
- 7th October 1981Is it correct to write two different speakers' lines on the same line, one after the other?
- 8th October 1981Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
- 9th October 1981Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
- 10th October 1981Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'
- 11th October 1981Explain in one sentence why writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing.
- 12th October 1981Give two features of a formal letter's layout that would be missing from an informal text message.
- 13th October 1981Choose the correct form: 'By the time we got to the cinema, the film ___ (play) for ten minutes.'
- 14th October 1981Explain why 'was swimming' is correct but 'was swiming' is not.
- 15th October 1981Change the time word: Direct speech: 'I will call you tomorrow,' he said. Which time word replaces 'tomorrow' in reported speech?
- 16th October 1981Rewrite 'He had rarely seen such courage' using inversion.
- 17th October 1981Explain in one sentence why an essay with no linking words between paragraphs might lose marks for cohesion.
- 18th October 1981Write an expanded noun phrase (at least two describing words) for 'the forest at dawn'.
- 19th October 1981Add a subordinate clause to make this a complex sentence: 'The teacher praised the pupil ___.'
- 20th October 1981Make this sentence negative: 'I saw the letter.'
- 21st October 1981Complete: 'If she had left earlier, she ___ (not miss) the train.'
- 22nd October 1981Give one connective that shows cause and effect.
- 23rd October 1981Which punctuation mark links two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction: a comma, a semicolon or a full stop?
- 24th October 1981True, false or not given: 'All residents supported the new cycle lane', based on the sentence 'Some residents welcomed the cycle lane, while others complained about lost parking.'
- 25th October 1981Identify the main clause in: 'Because she was tired, she went to bed early.'
- 26th October 1981Rewrite this sentence using a single collective noun instead of 'a group of singers': 'A group of singers performed in the hall.'
- 27th October 1981Choose the correct verb: 'Neither of the answers (is/are) correct.'
- 28th October 1981A letter to a head teacher should use which register: formal or informal?
- 29th October 1981Explain in a few words why a politician might use the passive voice to describe a mistake, such as 'Mistakes were made'.
- 30th October 1981True or false: a simile compares two things using 'like' or 'as'.
- 31st October 1981Add the missing apostrophe: 'The childrens coats were hung on the pegs.'