Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
April 1982 5-a-day
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- 1st April 1982Identify the tone of 'I cannot believe you actually thought that would work.'
- 2nd April 1982Rewrite 'The chef cooked the meal' in the passive voice.
- 3rd April 1982Name the language technique in 'the wind howled through the trees'.
- 4th April 1982State whether this is a simple or compound sentence: 'The rain stopped and the sun came out.'
- 5th April 1982Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'They are playing football.'
- 6th April 1982Explain why 'look after' cannot be split, using the example 'look after the dog.'
- 7th April 1982Explain in a few words why 'chilly' is a weaker antonym of 'boiling' than 'freezing'.
- 8th April 1982Give the noun form of the verb 'discover'.
- 9th April 1982Identify the punctuation error: "Come here." he whispered.
- 10th April 1982State the term for when a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
- 11th April 1982Is it correct to write two different speakers' lines on the same line, one after the other?
- 12th April 1982Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
- 13th April 1982Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
- 14th April 1982Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'
- 15th April 1982Explain in one sentence why writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing.
- 16th April 1982Give two features of a formal letter's layout that would be missing from an informal text message.
- 17th April 1982Choose the correct form: 'By the time we got to the cinema, the film ___ (play) for ten minutes.'
- 18th April 1982Explain why 'was swimming' is correct but 'was swiming' is not.
- 19th April 1982Change the time word: Direct speech: 'I will call you tomorrow,' he said. Which time word replaces 'tomorrow' in reported speech?
- 20th April 1982Rewrite 'He had rarely seen such courage' using inversion.
- 21st April 1982Explain in one sentence why an essay with no linking words between paragraphs might lose marks for cohesion.
- 22nd April 1982Write an expanded noun phrase (at least two describing words) for 'the forest at dawn'.
- 23rd April 1982Add a subordinate clause to make this a complex sentence: 'The teacher praised the pupil ___.'
- 24th April 1982Make this sentence negative: 'I saw the letter.'
- 25th April 1982Complete: 'If she had left earlier, she ___ (not miss) the train.'
- 26th April 1982Give one connective that shows cause and effect.
- 27th April 1982Which punctuation mark links two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction: a comma, a semicolon or a full stop?
- 28th April 1982True, 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.'
- 29th April 1982Identify the main clause in: 'Because she was tired, she went to bed early.'
- 30th April 1982Rewrite this sentence using a single collective noun instead of 'a group of singers': 'A group of singers performed in the hall.'