Free Year 5 English Practice Test

Ten english questions pitched at Year 5. Tick an answer for each, press Check, and see the score, the working and what to practise next.

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1. Which word introduces the relative clause in The boy, who was tall, ran.?

Answer: Relative clauses often start with a relative pronoun: who.

2. Which word is a modal verb?

Answer: Modal verbs show possibility: might.

3. Which uses brackets for parenthesis correctly?

Answer: The extra information goes in the brackets and the sentence still works without it: My dog (a spaniel) loves walks.

4. Which word is an adverb of possibility?

Answer: perhaps shows how likely something is.

5. Which is spelt correctly?

Answer: reversible takes -ible.

6. Which word has a silent letter?

Answer: The k in knight is silent.

7. Turn solid into a verb

Answer: solidify: to make solid.

8. Which uses dashes for parenthesis correctly?

Answer: The dashes surround the extra information: My aunt – who lives in Leeds – is visiting.

9. Which word is a synonym of furious?

Answer: livid means very angry.

10. Which prefix means again?

Answer: re-: redo, rewrite, replay.

About this test

Year 5 grammar covers relative clauses, modal verbs, parenthesis and adverbs of possibility, alongside spelling rules for -able and -ible. All of these appear on the Year 6 SPaG paper.

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