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Free 11+ and KS2 English practice

300 questions, free, with the working shown after every answer. Twelve at a time, nothing timed and nothing recorded.

Word classes

Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions and determiners.

20 questions

Verb tenses

Choosing the right tense, and making the verb agree with its subject.

20 questions

Apostrophes

Possession and contraction — the two jobs an apostrophe does, and nothing else.

20 questions

Commas

Lists, fronted adverbials and parenthesis. Every comma doing a job, not marking a breath.

20 questions

Punctuation

Colons, semicolons, brackets and dashes, and punctuating direct speech.

20 questions

Clauses

Main and subordinate clauses, and choosing the right relative pronoun.

20 questions

Active and passive

Spotting the passive voice, and turning a sentence from one to the other.

20 questions

Formal writing

The subjunctive, and the single word that replaces an informal phrase.

20 questions

Prefixes and suffixes

Which negative prefix a word takes, and how a suffix changes a word's job.

20 questions

Homophones and spelling

Their and there, its and it's, affect and effect — the pairs that cost marks.

20 questions

Comprehension

Twelve original passages — stories, information, an argument, a diary and a poem — with questions on each.

100 questions

English mock paper

28 questions in 35 minutes, under exam conditions.

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