SPAG REVISION

Question 1

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

Accepted Answer

There are some foxes living in the woods.

Question 2

Tick the relative pronoun in the sentence below.The boy who knocked on our door was at the wrong house.

Accepted Answer

who

Question 3

What is the grammatical term for the bold part?Charlie spilt his juice, but it didn’t go on his shirt.

Accepted Answer

a main clause

Question 4

Tick the adverbial in the sentence: On Wednesday, Felix has a dental appointment.

Accepted Answer

On Wednesday,

Question 5

The sentences below have their punctuation marks covered.Which sentence is a question?

Accepted Answer

Where is my puzzle

Question 6

Which sentence is the most formal?

Accepted Answer

The team were defeated due to mistakes that they made.

Question 7

Which sentence uses tense correctly?

Accepted Answer

We sat and ate our lunch once we had found a sunny picnic spot.

Question 8

Tick the prepositions: On a mountain bike, you can cycle across rocky ground, along muddy paths and over harsh terrain.

Accepted Answer

On, along, across, over

Question 9

Tick the sentence that uses a dash correctly.

Accepted Answer

I find baking tricky − there are too many things to go wrong.

Question 10

What does the prefix multi- mean in the words multicultural, multipurpose and multicoloured?

Accepted Answer

many

Question 11

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

Accepted Answer

I will be running a half marathon – 13 miles – next week!

Question 12

What is the relative clause in this sentence: We visited the funfair that came to our town.

Accepted Answer

that came to our town

Question 13

Which sentence must not end with an exclamation mark?

Accepted Answer

What is the temperature now

Question 14

Which is/are a command?

Accepted Answer

Do your stretches before you exercise, Do take some water with you to football practice

Question 15

Which two sentences use punctuation to show parenthesis?

Accepted Answer

Our classroom, at the end of the corridor, has a red door., There are some books − including story books − in the cupboard.

Question 16

What is the subordinate clause?: We are going to be late as we missed the bus.

Accepted Answer

as we missed the bus

Question 17

What is the word class of the bold word?Our school is bigger than theirs.

Accepted Answer

a possessive pronoun

Question 18

Which word is an antonym of difficult?The problem was difficult to solve.

Accepted Answer

easy

Question 19

Which is the subject? Find two. Sam baked cakes for charity and he sold them at breaktime.

Accepted Answer

Sam, he

Question 20

What word class is him in the sentence below?Josef’s friends rushed to meet him, desperate to see if he had won.

Accepted Answer

a pronoun

Question 21

Which word class is the bold word in the sentence below?My brother thinks that football is an amazing game.

Accepted Answer

determiner

Question 22

Which sentence uses the bold word as a noun?

Accepted Answer

We heard thunder, but we did not see any lightning.

Question 23

In which sentence is lock a verb?

Accepted Answer

Make sure you lock the gate before you leave.

Question 24

Which sentence uses the passive?

Accepted Answer

The issue was discussed at a council meeting.

Question 25

Which sentence is written in Standard English?

Accepted Answer

My friend was tidying the classroom.

Question 26

What is the subject of the sentence below. The tightrope walker carried a balancing pole.

Accepted Answer

tightrope walker

Question 27

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

Accepted Answer

Lately, the days have been growing noticeably longer and warmer.

Question 28

Which bold word is an adverb?

Accepted Answer

The clothes are folded neatly.

Question 29

Tick the verbs.There were lots of gulls circling in the sky.They gathered near the dock, searching for food.

Accepted Answer

were, searching, gathered, circling

Question 30

Which verb is a synonym of the verb produce?

Accepted Answer

make

SPAG REVISION

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SPAG REVISION

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