Primary 3 · English · Continuous Writing
Continuous Writing questions for Primary 3 English
10 questions to work through online, 3 of them written out the way the paper asks. Answer and you get the working straight away, then a score at the end. No sign-up, and you can retake it as often as you like.
- Ordering the pictures
- Choosing an opening
- Staying on the story
- Showing a feeling
- Choosing a better word
- Starting a new paragraph
- Choosing an ending
- Writing a stronger verb
- Writing a joining word
- Cutting a repeated word
Answers and explanations for all 10 questions
Every answer with the reasoning behind it. Worth reading after you have tried the set — or on its own, if you are a parent marking it.
Put these pictures in order: P. The boy holds an empty cage. Q. The bird sits on a branch outside. R. The boy opens the cage door. S. The boy carries the cage to the window.
Answer: S, R, Q, P
Each picture has to make the next one possible: carry the cage, open the door, the bird flies out, the cage is empty.
Which opening sentence is best?
Answer: The cage door had been open all morning, and nobody had noticed.
It starts with something already going wrong, which is what makes a reader want the next sentence.
Which sentence should be taken out?
Answer: Sentence 3
What his father does every Saturday is not part of what happened on this Saturday. Sentence 3 stops the story to give a fact nobody needs.
Which sentence shows that the girl was frightened, without using the word?
Answer: She held the torch with both hands and did not move it off the door.
Both hands on the torch, and the beam that will not leave the door, are things a reader can picture — and the fear comes from picturing them.
Which sentence is best?
Answer: The old dog limped to the gate and waited.
One strong verb does the work of several weak words: limped carries the age and the pain together.
Where should a new paragraph begin? ... we finally found the puppy behind the bins and carried it home. The next morning, a notice appeared on the lift door.
Answer: At "The next morning"
A paragraph breaks when the time or the place changes, and The next morning changes both.
Which ending is best for a story about losing and finding a puppy?
Answer: That night the puppy slept on my sister's feet, and neither of them moved until morning.
It shows the puppy home and safe without saying so, and it leaves the reader with a picture rather than a claim.
Replace the marked word with one stronger word. Arif [ate] his whole bowl of noodles in under a minute.
Answer: gobbled
Gobbled says he ate and how fast he ate in one word, which is what a stronger verb does.
Write one word for the blank. I had packed my swimming things the night before. ______ , the pool was closed for cleaning.
Answer: However
The second sentence spoils what the first one set up, and However is the word that marks that turn.
One word in the marked part is not needed. Write the word to delete. She [shouted loudly] across the field to her brother.
Answer: loudly
Shouting is already loud, so loudly says it twice. Cutting it makes the sentence stronger.