Daily Practice · GCSE
May 1987 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1987Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 2nd May 1987Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 3rd May 1987Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 4th May 1987How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 5th May 1987Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 6th May 1987Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 7th May 1987Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 8th May 1987Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 9th May 1987Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 10th May 1987Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 11th May 1987Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 12th May 1987What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 13th May 1987Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 14th May 1987Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 15th May 1987Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.
- 16th May 1987How does Austen use Mr Collins for satire?
- 17th May 1987Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 18th May 1987Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 19th May 1987Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 20th May 1987How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 21st May 1987True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 22nd May 1987Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 23rd May 1987Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 24th May 1987What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 25th May 1987Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 26th May 1987In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 27th May 1987Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 28th May 1987What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 29th May 1987Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 30th May 1987True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 31st May 1987How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?