Year 6 GPS

How many of the following statements are formal?

Hospitals are generally regarded as excellent places in which to gain medical support.

Jimmy goes to see his granny every weekend as he thinks she’s amazing at baking yummy cakes!

Football club will commence again in the next few weeks.

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• 2

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What does the root dict mean in these words?

dictate

predict

edict

dictator

• Moving pictures

• In a group

• Say or speak

• Leader

What is the subject in this sentence?

My mother baked a loaf of bread for lunch.

• lunch

• bread

• mother

• baked

Which of these is not a determiner?

• an

• the

• that

• then

Name the adverb in this sentence:

The well-stocked library was a place that my family and I regularly visited as we liked reading.

• reading

• well-stocked

• regularly

• place

What is the work class of the underlined words:

The shoes are mine.

The home is ours.

The balloon was his.

• determiners

• relative pronouns

• possessive pronouns

• prepositions

Place the semi-colon in the correct place within this sentence.

It was raining we didn’t end up completing our outdoor PE session

• After raining

• After up

• After completing

• After outdoor

How many of the underlined words are prepositions?

During the show, the acrobats completed death-defying stunts.

The cottage was located beyond the stream.

Swimming gracefully underneath the sea, the mermaid chased the fish.

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What is the name of the punctuation used either side of the words lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers in the sentence below?

My pet snail needs to eat a range of foods daily – lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers – to stay healthy.

• hyphen

• dash

• colon

• semi-colon

My pet snail needs to eat a range of foods daily – lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers – to stay healthy.

What is the name of a different punctuation mark that could be used around 'lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers'?

• brackets

• inverted commas

• colons

• exclamation marks