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Mary Anning and the Time Twister – Chapter 1

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

1. Add the suffix -ly to change the words in brackets into adverbs.

(Usual)

the class had their lessons in school, so they were (simple) delighted to be on a school trip at the beach. (gentle) The children handled the fossil .

2. What is the word class of the underlined words in the sentence below?

Mrs Khan held up an ammonite; it looked like a dark brown shell and was

the size of the palm of her hand.

3. Replace the underlined words in the sentence below with the correct

pronouns.

Mrs Khan took the class to the beach and Mrs Khan told the class that

the class were going to try to find some fossils.


4. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

Tick one.

Kyle suddenly cried out, “where has everybody gone?”

Kyle suddenly cried out “Where has everybody gone?”

Kyle suddenly cried out “,Where has everybody gone?”

Kyle suddenly cried out, “Where has everybody gone?”

5. Underline the conjunction in each sentence.

Mrs Khan shot them both a look before continuing.

“It’s a fossil now, but millions of years ago it was a living animal.”

The noises seemed to disappear until all Jasmine could hear was their

own voices.



1. Choose the correct spellings to complete the sentences below.

Kyle spotted an enormous/enormuss/enormeous ship out on the

horizon.

The children were astonished to see the most famious/famous/famuss

fossil hunter in history.

The clues were obvous/obveous/obvious; they had time travelled.

2. Underline the preposition in each sentence.

With that, the girl and boy ran off towards the grey cliffs.

When they reached the cliffs, they could see Mary sitting on a large

stone.

“Kyle!” she exclaimed excitedly, waving the ammonite in the air.

3. Insert a comma after the fronted adverbials in the sentences below.

Upon hearing these words Kyle went as white as a ghost.

Looking intently at the ammonite Kyle realised they needed to use it to

get back.

A moment later Kyle came over and put his hand on his sister’s shoulder.


4. Tick one box in each row to indicate whether the sentence is in the

present perfect or the simple past tense.

Sentence Present perfect

Simple past tense

Kyle looked up at the sky.

It has not been a good finding day.

We have just seen the most famous fossil hunter in history!

Jasmine and Kyle approached carefully.

5. Rewrite the following sentence in standard English.

We have been doing about Mary Anning at school.




The children found themselves face to face with a scary

creasure/creature.

They were having a wild advensure/adventure.

They wished that the dinosaur was in an enclosure/encloture.

2. Underline the words in the passage that contain an apostrophe for

possession.

“Where’s the fossil, Jas?” asked Kyle. “We’ve got to get it back.”

The children’s fossil had slipped from Jasmine’s hand.

3. Underline the fronted adverbial in each of the sentences below.

Bobbing its head and thrashing its tail wildly, Jasmine watched the

creature swing round to face the two boys.

To Jasmine’s relief, it began backing away.


4. Complete the sentence below by adding a fronted adverbial.

_________________________________________ , the two girls kept low

to the ground.

5. Expand the following noun phrase by adding adjectives and a

prepositional phrase.

the dinosaur




Joseph could knot/not believe that his sister would be famous one day.

After all, they had groan/grown up as the children of a poor carpenter.

Joseph was unsure weather/whether to believe Kyle.

2. Underline the possessive pronouns in the passages below.

Jasmine lay on her back; she could hear the others breathing and

murmuring, as if they were waking from sleep.

Kyle began to speak and his voice sounded full of relief.

3. Which sentence uses the present perfect form?

Tick one.

“I think we’re home, Joseph,” said Mary.

“Why, we’ve hardly been any time at all,” observed Mary.

“I’m never going to look at a curiosity, I mean fossil, the same way again,” said Joseph.

Jasmine couldn’t imagine what Kyle was about to say.

4. Underline the adverb in the sentence below.

Mary and Joseph were doing something wrong with the ammonite.


5. Using the conjunctions in the boxes, expand upon the following

sentences. Only use each conjunction once.

The children will be happy ____________________________________

______________________________________________________________.

Mary and Joseph’s first attempt at using the ammonite failed ________

______________________________________________________________.

because

when




Kyle interrupted Mr Carter; he did not wait for

permition/permission/permician to speak.

Without hesitation/hesitassion/hesitacian, Jasmine told the class that

dinosaurs had actually been very colourful.

Jasmine had lots to add to the discution/discussion/discucian about

dinosaurs.

2. Circle the correct verb form in each underlined pair to complete the

sentences below.

Suddenly, their voices seemed to get much louder, and Jasmine realised

that there was/were other voices, too.

The fossil was/were found by Mary Anning.

The children was/were listening to Mr Carter talk about dinosaurs.

3. Add the missing apostrophe to the passage below.

Many dinosaurs lived near Lyme Regis. The dinosaurs bones are the

fossils that can be found today.


4. Which sentence uses the correct agreement between subject and verb?

Tick one.

I goes fossil hunting nearly every week.

Jasmine and Kyle looks at each other and smile.

The fossil belong to an old lady.

Mr Carter studies dinosaurs.

5. Rewrite the sentence below so that it is punctuated correctly.

What do you know about dinosaurs asked Mr Carter.

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