Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
October 2002 - Key Stage 3 5-a-day
Every Key Stage 3 sheet published in October 2002, with answers. Years 7-9 - clauses, tone, language analysis and structured writing.
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Every sheet in October 2002
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2002Identify the past continuous verb in: 'She was singing loudly in the shower.'
- 2nd October 2002Change the pronoun correctly: Direct speech 'I am tired,' said Maria. Reported: Maria said ___ was tired.
- 3rd October 2002Rewrite 'The storm had seldom been so fierce' using inversion.
- 4th October 2002Rewrite this abrupt paragraph opening to improve cohesion with a previous paragraph about fear: 'The character then goes to the market.'
- 5th October 2002Identify the language technique in 'the moon smiled down on the sleeping town'.
- 6th October 2002Combine into a complex sentence: 'The car broke down. We were driving to the coast.'
- 7th October 2002Make this sentence negative: 'He likes football.'
- 8th October 2002Correct the error: 'If I would have known, I would have told you.'
- 9th October 2002Give one connective that shows addition.
- 10th October 2002Explain in one sentence why a semicolon suits 'The rain stopped; the sun broke through' better than a comma.
- 11th October 2002What effect does using a direct quotation from a named expert usually have on an argument?
- 12th October 2002Identify the subordinate clause in: 'The dog barked when the postman arrived.'
- 13th October 2002Is 'happiness' an abstract noun or a concrete noun?
- 14th October 2002Choose the correct verb: 'Either the manager or the staff (is/are) responsible for the decision.'
- 15th October 2002Explain in a few words how tone differs from register.
- 16th October 2002Rewrite 'The company launched a new product' in the passive voice, omitting the doer.
- 17th October 2002Identify the punctuation mark used to introduce a quotation in: 'she said simply: it was time to leave.'
- 18th October 2002Choose the correct word: 'The dog wagged ___ tail.' (its / it's)
- 19th October 2002Identify both the auxiliary and the main verb in: 'We had been waiting for an hour.'
- 20th October 2002Which pronoun order is correct: 'turn it off' or 'turn off it'?
- 21st October 2002Rewrite 'The room was tidy' using a strong antonym to describe total disorder.
- 22nd October 2002Give the noun form of the verb 'arrive'.
- 23rd October 2002Punctuate this line with an interrupting reporting clause: i dont know she said ill try
- 24th October 2002Identify the rhyme scheme of a stanza rhyming light / night / sight / bite.
- 25th October 2002Should a new paragraph start every time the speaker changes?
- 26th October 2002Add the apostrophe correctly: 'The dogs bones were buried in the garden.' (more than one dog)
- 27th October 2002Which word shows more intensity: 'warm' or 'boiling'?
- 28th October 2002Identify the coordinating conjunction in: 'She studied hard, and she passed the exam, because she wanted to go to university.'
- 29th October 2002Identify the rhetorical pattern: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.'
- 30th October 2002State whether this is Fact or Opinion: 'Over 30 percent of students skip breakfast before school.'
- 31st October 2002Correct the error: 'He has been study since 9am.'