Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
October 2009 - Key Stage 3 5-a-day
Every Key Stage 3 sheet published in October 2009, with answers. Years 7-9 - clauses, tone, language analysis and structured writing.
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Every sheet in October 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2009Rewrite 'The chef cooked the meal' in the passive voice.
- 2nd October 2009Name the language technique in 'the wind howled through the trees'.
- 3rd October 2009State whether this is a simple or compound sentence: 'The rain stopped and the sun came out.'
- 4th October 2009Identify the auxiliary verb in: 'They are playing football.'
- 5th October 2009Explain why 'look after' cannot be split, using the example 'look after the dog.'
- 6th October 2009Explain in a few words why 'chilly' is a weaker antonym of 'boiling' than 'freezing'.
- 7th October 2009Give the noun form of the verb 'discover'.
- 8th October 2009Identify the punctuation error: "Come here." he whispered.
- 9th October 2009State the term for when a sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next without a pause.
- 10th October 2009Is it correct to write two different speakers' lines on the same line, one after the other?
- 11th October 2009Choose the correct option for bags belonging to three girls: 'the girls' bags' or 'the girl's bags'.
- 12th October 2009Which carries a more negative connotation: 'slim' or 'skinny'?
- 13th October 2009Combine into a compound-complex sentence: 'Tom was tired. He kept walking. He wanted to reach home.'
- 14th October 2009Explain in one sentence why writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing.
- 15th October 2009Give two features of a formal letter's layout that would be missing from an informal text message.
- 16th October 2009Choose the correct form: 'By the time we got to the cinema, the film ___ (play) for ten minutes.'
- 17th October 2009Explain why 'was swimming' is correct but 'was swiming' is not.
- 18th October 2009Change the time word: Direct speech: 'I will call you tomorrow,' he said. Which time word replaces 'tomorrow' in reported speech?
- 19th October 2009Rewrite 'He had rarely seen such courage' using inversion.
- 20th October 2009Explain in one sentence why an essay with no linking words between paragraphs might lose marks for cohesion.
- 21st October 2009Write an expanded noun phrase (at least two describing words) for 'the forest at dawn'.
- 22nd October 2009Add a subordinate clause to make this a complex sentence: 'The teacher praised the pupil ___.'
- 23rd October 2009Make this sentence negative: 'I saw the letter.'
- 24th October 2009Complete: 'If she had left earlier, she ___ (not miss) the train.'
- 25th October 2009Give one connective that shows cause and effect.
- 26th October 2009Which punctuation mark links two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction: a comma, a semicolon or a full stop?
- 27th October 2009True, 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.'
- 28th October 2009Identify the main clause in: 'Because she was tired, she went to bed early.'
- 29th October 2009Rewrite this sentence using a single collective noun instead of 'a group of singers': 'A group of singers performed in the hall.'
- 30th October 2009Choose the correct verb: 'Neither of the answers (is/are) correct.'
- 31st October 2009A letter to a head teacher should use which register: formal or informal?