Daily Practice - 11+ Entrance
English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
7th December 2021
- 1Comprehension: Poetry Set 6
'The beam swept the sea like a searching hand.' Name the simile in this line.
- 2Comprehension: Classic Fiction Set 5
'He had not set foot in the old schoolyard in twenty years.' What tense is used here, and what does it usually signal in a story?
- 3Comprehension: Playscript Extract Set 1
If a stage direction reads '(the room falls silent)', is this an instruction about a character's speech or about the setting/atmosphere?
- 4SPaG Depth Set 6
Identify the passive construction in: 'The bridge, which had been built over a century ago, was finally repaired last spring.'
- 5Vocabulary and Word Skills Set 7
Explain why translating an idiom's individual words literally usually leads to a wrong or confusing meaning, using "raining cats and dogs" as your example.
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