Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
April 2008 - Key Stage 3 5-a-day
Every Key Stage 3 sheet published in April 2008, with answers. Years 7-9 - clauses, tone, language analysis and structured writing.
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Every sheet in April 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2008Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
- 2nd April 2008Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
- 3rd April 2008Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'
- 4th April 2008Explain in one sentence why writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing.
- 5th April 2008Give two features of a formal letter's layout that would be missing from an informal text message.
- 6th April 2008Choose the correct form: 'By the time we got to the cinema, the film ___ (play) for ten minutes.'
- 7th April 2008Explain why 'was swimming' is correct but 'was swiming' is not.
- 8th April 2008Change the time word: Direct speech: 'I will call you tomorrow,' he said. Which time word replaces 'tomorrow' in reported speech?
- 9th April 2008Rewrite 'He had rarely seen such courage' using inversion.
- 10th April 2008Explain in one sentence why an essay with no linking words between paragraphs might lose marks for cohesion.
- 11th April 2008Write an expanded noun phrase (at least two describing words) for 'the forest at dawn'.
- 12th April 2008Add a subordinate clause to make this a complex sentence: 'The teacher praised the pupil ___.'
- 13th April 2008Make this sentence negative: 'I saw the letter.'
- 14th April 2008Complete: 'If she had left earlier, she ___ (not miss) the train.'
- 15th April 2008Give one connective that shows cause and effect.
- 16th April 2008Which punctuation mark links two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction: a comma, a semicolon or a full stop?
- 17th April 2008True, 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.'
- 18th April 2008Identify the main clause in: 'Because she was tired, she went to bed early.'
- 19th April 2008Rewrite this sentence using a single collective noun instead of 'a group of singers': 'A group of singers performed in the hall.'
- 20th April 2008Choose the correct verb: 'Neither of the answers (is/are) correct.'
- 21st April 2008A letter to a head teacher should use which register: formal or informal?
- 22nd April 2008Explain in a few words why a politician might use the passive voice to describe a mistake, such as 'Mistakes were made'.
- 23rd April 2008True or false: a simile compares two things using 'like' or 'as'.
- 24th April 2008Add the missing apostrophe: 'The childrens coats were hung on the pegs.'
- 25th April 2008Complete with the correct auxiliary verb: 'She ___ finished her project.' (present perfect)
- 26th April 2008Is 'turn off' separable or inseparable? Test it with the object 'the television'.
- 27th April 2008Give an antonym for 'generous' that carries a strongly negative connotation.
- 28th April 2008Explain in a few words why nominalisation is common in academic writing.
- 29th April 2008Rewrite with correct speech punctuation and paragraphing for two speakers: mum asked are you ready dan said not yet
- 30th April 2008A poem has four stanzas, each with four lines. State the correct term for a four-line stanza.