Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
December 1985 5-a-day
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- 1st December 1985Explain in a few words why nominalisation is common in academic writing.
- 2nd December 1985Rewrite with correct speech punctuation and paragraphing for two speakers: mum asked are you ready dan said not yet
- 3rd December 1985A poem has four stanzas, each with four lines. State the correct term for a four-line stanza.
- 4th December 1985Where does the comma go in: 'That's brilliant' she said?
- 5th December 1985Is 'the mens changing room' correctly punctuated? If not, correct it.
- 6th December 1985Replace 'big' with a word showing extreme size in: 'The dog was big.'
- 7th December 1985How many dependent (subordinate) clauses does a compound-complex sentence need at minimum?
- 8th December 1985Identify the parenthesis in this sentence and state its function: 'The plan, though risky, could save the school.'
- 9th December 1985Identify the technique in: 'Every day. Every meal. Every child deserves better.'
- 10th December 1985Explain the difference in meaning between 'I have been reading that book' and 'I had been reading that book.'
- 11th December 1985Identify the past continuous verb in: 'She was singing loudly in the shower.'
- 12th December 1985Change the pronoun correctly: Direct speech 'I am tired,' said Maria. Reported: Maria said ___ was tired.
- 13th December 1985Rewrite 'The storm had seldom been so fierce' using inversion.
- 14th December 1985Rewrite this abrupt paragraph opening to improve cohesion with a previous paragraph about fear: 'The character then goes to the market.'
- 15th December 1985Identify the language technique in 'the moon smiled down on the sleeping town'.
- 16th December 1985Combine into a complex sentence: 'The car broke down. We were driving to the coast.'
- 17th December 1985Make this sentence negative: 'He likes football.'
- 18th December 1985Correct the error: 'If I would have known, I would have told you.'
- 19th December 1985Give one connective that shows addition.
- 20th December 1985Explain in one sentence why a semicolon suits 'The rain stopped; the sun broke through' better than a comma.
- 21st December 1985What effect does using a direct quotation from a named expert usually have on an argument?
- 22nd December 1985Identify the subordinate clause in: 'The dog barked when the postman arrived.'
- 23rd December 1985Is 'happiness' an abstract noun or a concrete noun?
- 24th December 1985Choose the correct verb: 'Either the manager or the staff (is/are) responsible for the decision.'
- 25th December 1985Explain in a few words how tone differs from register.
- 26th December 1985Rewrite 'The company launched a new product' in the passive voice, omitting the doer.
- 27th December 1985Identify the punctuation mark used to introduce a quotation in: 'she said simply: it was time to leave.'
- 28th December 1985Choose the correct word: 'The dog wagged ___ tail.' (its / it's)
- 29th December 1985Identify both the auxiliary and the main verb in: 'We had been waiting for an hour.'
- 30th December 1985Which pronoun order is correct: 'turn it off' or 'turn off it'?
- 31st December 1985Rewrite 'The room was tidy' using a strong antonym to describe total disorder.