Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
November 1985 5-a-day
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- 1st November 1985Identify the punctuation error: "Come here." he whispered.
- 2nd November 1985State the term for when a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
- 3rd November 1985Is it correct to write two different speakers' lines on the same line, one after the other?
- 4th November 1985Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
- 5th November 1985Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
- 6th November 1985Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'
- 7th November 1985Explain in one sentence why writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing.
- 8th November 1985Give two features of a formal letter's layout that would be missing from an informal text message.
- 9th November 1985Choose the correct form: 'By the time we got to the cinema, the film ___ (play) for ten minutes.'
- 10th November 1985Explain why 'was swimming' is correct but 'was swiming' is not.
- 11th November 1985Change the time word: Direct speech: 'I will call you tomorrow,' he said. Which time word replaces 'tomorrow' in reported speech?
- 12th November 1985Rewrite 'He had rarely seen such courage' using inversion.
- 13th November 1985Explain in one sentence why an essay with no linking words between paragraphs might lose marks for cohesion.
- 14th November 1985Write an expanded noun phrase (at least two describing words) for 'the forest at dawn'.
- 15th November 1985Add a subordinate clause to make this a complex sentence: 'The teacher praised the pupil ___.'
- 16th November 1985Make this sentence negative: 'I saw the letter.'
- 17th November 1985Complete: 'If she had left earlier, she ___ (not miss) the train.'
- 18th November 1985Give one connective that shows cause and effect.
- 19th November 1985Which punctuation mark links two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction: a comma, a semicolon or a full stop?
- 20th November 1985True, 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.'
- 21st November 1985Identify the main clause in: 'Because she was tired, she went to bed early.'
- 22nd November 1985Rewrite this sentence using a single collective noun instead of 'a group of singers': 'A group of singers performed in the hall.'
- 23rd November 1985Choose the correct verb: 'Neither of the answers (is/are) correct.'
- 24th November 1985A letter to a head teacher should use which register: formal or informal?
- 25th November 1985Explain in a few words why a politician might use the passive voice to describe a mistake, such as 'Mistakes were made'.
- 26th November 1985True or false: a simile compares two things using 'like' or 'as'.
- 27th November 1985Add the missing apostrophe: 'The childrens coats were hung on the pegs.'
- 28th November 1985Complete with the correct auxiliary verb: 'She ___ finished her project.' (present perfect)
- 29th November 1985Is 'turn off' separable or inseparable? Test it with the object 'the television'.
- 30th November 1985Give an antonym for 'generous' that carries a strongly negative connotation.