1. Read the sentence below. Circle the most suitable pronoun to complete the sentence.

Aaron drove ____ car to the cinema.

youthemhisme

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1mark

  1. Read the sentence below and circle the adjective.

Alexis found her favourite scarf in the cupboard.

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1 mark

  1. Read the sentences below. Tick the sentence which uses a colon correctly.

Tick one box

We’ve chosen two sports to play tennis: and football. [ ]

We’ve chosen two sports to play: tennis and football. [ ]

We’ve chosen two sports: to play tennis and football. [ ]

We’ve chosen: two sports to play tennis and football. [ ]

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1 mark

  1. Read the sentence below and underline the conjunction.

While you are running, you can record your speed.

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1mark

  1. Read the words below. Tick the words that are antonyms for ‘run.’

Tick one box

jump, skip[ ]

race, sprint[ ]

walk, gallop[ ]

flip, spring[]

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1 mark

  1. The words below are part of a word family. Write one other word that belongs to this word family on the line below.

designassignsignpostsignal

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1 mark

  1. Read the sentence below and underline the words which should start with a capital letter.

tomorrow is jack’s birthday so we are going to london.

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1mark

  1. Read the sentences below. Tick two sentences which should end with a question mark.

Tick two boxes

Ask your uncle if he would like to go to the match[ ]

You’d like to go to the game, wouldn’t you [ ]

Nobody knows which way we need to go, do you[ ]

I was wondering whether you’d mind helping me[ ]

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1 mark

  1. Put a tick in each row to show whether ‘until’ is being used as a subordinating conjunction or a preposition.

Sentence / Preposition / Subordinating Conjunction
They kept on running until the end of the race.
Until I fell off my bike, I had never been to hospital.
I couldn’t play the piano until I began lessons.

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1mark

  1. Put a prefix at the start of each word below to make it mean the opposite.

____ decided

____ respectful

____ formal

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1 mark

END OF TEST

ANSWERS

  1. his
  1. favourite
  1. We’ve chosen two sports to play: tennis and football.
  1. while
  1. race/sprint
  1. resign and other ‘sign’ based words including: significant…
  1. Tomorrow/Jack/London
  1. You’d like to go to the game, wouldn’t you?

Nobody knows which way we need to go, do you?

Sentence / Preposition / Subordinating Conjunction
They kept on running until the end of the race. / √
Until I fell off my bike, I had never been to hospital. / √
I couldn’t play the piano until I began lessons. / √
  1. undecided/disrespectful/informal

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