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Year 5 English Grammar and Punctuation Test 3
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1. Add brackets, dashes or commas to the sentence below.
1 mark
The chef who was very famous visited our school to show us how to cook his
favourite dish.
2. Use each prefix once to make the verbs in the sentences below negative. Write your answers
in the spaces. 1 mark
I think I must have heard you. I have to agree with your
views on this. We need to construct the rocket immediately.
de mis dis
3. Circle the punctuation marks below which can be used to add parenthesis to a sentence.
1 mark
; , . ? ( )
4. Complete the sentence below so that it uses a modal verb.
1 mark
She know about this.
We don’t want her to know about this.
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5. Look at the words in the table. Are they relative pronouns or possessive pronouns? Tick one
option. 1 mark
Word Relative Pronoun Possessive Pronoun
which
his
who
where
ours
6. The sentence below contains a suffix error. Underline the error and write the correction
in the box below. 1 mark
In a panic, Lucy tried to activify the fire alarm.
7. Look at the article below. Underline the relative clauses.
1 mark
Summer is finally here
Weather forecasters have confirmed that the hot weather, which arrived
last week, is here to stay. According to Sunni Shine, who is chief
weather reporter for the Weather Channel, temperatures look set to
stay high until the end of the month.
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Year 5 English Grammar and Punctuation Test 3 3
8. Which pair of time adverbials and time connectives link the sentences in the box
together? Tick one. 1 mark
We will go to Scotland for Christmas again . ,
we are thinking of trying somewhere new.
last week / Then
on Saturday / Firstly
this year / After that
9. Add commas to the sentences below to make the meaning clear.
1 mark
Every day even on a school day I have a big breakfast of coffee eggs bacon
toast and cereals.
10. Underline a verb prefix and verb suffix to complete the sentence below.
1 mark
I was very appointed when the seeds I’d sown failed to germin .
Verb prefix Verb suffix
mis ate
dis ise
de
ify
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Year 5 English Grammar and Punctuation Test 3 Answers
1 The chef - who was very famous - visited 1 mark 6 In a panic, Lucy tried to activify the 1 mark
our school... fire alarm.
activate
OR: The chef, who was very famous,
visited our school...
OR: The chef (who was very famous)
visited our school...
2 I think I must mis have heard you. 1 mark 7 1 mark
Summer is finally here
I have dis to agree with your views Weather forecasters have confirmed
on this. We need to de construct the that the hot weather, which arrived
last week, is here to stay. According
rocket immediately.
to Sunni Shine, who is chief weather
reporter for the Weather Channel,
temperatures look set to stay high
until the end of the month.
3 1 mark 8 last week / Then 1 mark
; , . ? ( )
on Saturday / Firstly
this year / After that x
4 1 mark 9 Every day, even on a school day, I have a 1 mark
She mustn’t/must not/cannot/can’t know big breakfast of coffee, eggs, bacon, toast
about this. and cereals.
5 Relative Possessive 1 mark 10 I was very disappointed when the seeds 1 mark
Word
Pronoun Pronoun
which X
I’d sown failed to germinate.
Verb prefix Verb suffix
his X
who X mis ate
where X dis ise
ours X de ify
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