Daily Practice · Key Stage 3
September 2023 - Key Stage 3 5-a-day
Every Key Stage 3 sheet published in September 2023, with answers. Years 7-9 - clauses, tone, language analysis and structured writing.
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Every sheet in September 2023
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2023Explain in a few words how tone differs from register.
- 2nd September 2023Rewrite 'The company launched a new product' in the passive voice, omitting the doer.
- 3rd September 2023Identify the punctuation mark used to introduce a quotation in: 'she said simply: it was time to leave.'
- 4th September 2023Choose the correct word: 'The dog wagged ___ tail.' (its / it's)
- 5th September 2023Identify both the auxiliary and the main verb in: 'We had been waiting for an hour.'
- 6th September 2023Which pronoun order is correct: 'turn it off' or 'turn off it'?
- 7th September 2023Rewrite 'The room was tidy' using a strong antonym to describe total disorder.
- 8th September 2023Give the noun form of the verb 'arrive'.
- 9th September 2023Punctuate this line with an interrupting reporting clause: i dont know she said ill try
- 10th September 2023Identify the rhyme scheme of a stanza rhyming light / night / sight / bite.
- 11th September 2023Should a new paragraph start every time the speaker changes?
- 12th September 2023Add the apostrophe correctly: 'The dogs bones were buried in the garden.' (more than one dog)
- 13th September 2023Which word shows more intensity: 'warm' or 'boiling'?
- 14th September 2023Identify the coordinating conjunction in: 'She studied hard, and she passed the exam, because she wanted to go to university.'
- 15th September 2023Identify the rhetorical pattern: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.'
- 16th September 2023State whether this is Fact or Opinion: 'Over 30 percent of students skip breakfast before school.'
- 17th September 2023Correct the error: 'He has been study since 9am.'
- 18th September 2023Complete: 'They ___ (walk) to school when it started to rain.'
- 19th September 2023Correct the tense error: 'He said he is happy.'
- 20th September 2023Identify the inverted phrase in 'Not only did she win the race, but she also broke the record.'
- 21st September 2023Name one grammatical device, other than a discourse marker, that creates cohesion across paragraphs.
- 22nd September 2023Is this sentence simple, compound or complex? 'The rain fell.'
- 23rd September 2023Explain the difference between a compound sentence and a complex sentence, using one example of each.
- 24th September 2023Rewrite as both a negative and a question: 'The train arrives at six.'
- 25th September 2023Complete: 'If you heat water to 100 degrees C, it ___ (boil).'
- 26th September 2023Explain in a few words why overusing 'and' as a connective can weaken writing.
- 27th September 2023Rewrite using a dash to add a sharp aside: 'The exam was hard, much harder than I expected.'
- 28th September 2023What word class is 'quiet' in 'a quiet street on the edge of town'?
- 29th September 2023Identify both clauses in: 'The team celebrated wildly after they had won the championship.'
- 30th September 2023Identify the collective noun in: 'A herd of elephants crossed the river.'