Daily Practice · GCSE
November 1987 5-a-day
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- 1st November 1987True or false: using only long, complex sentences throughout a piece creates strong sentence variety.
- 2nd November 1987Identify the subordinating conjunction in: 'She left early because she felt unwell.'
- 3rd November 1987Rewrite 'The dog barked loudly.' starting with an -ing clause instead of the subject.
- 4th November 1987In Section B, name one way to vary your writing for effect.
- 5th November 1987Give one piece of evidence that Victor abandons responsibility for his creation.
- 6th November 1987Give one piece of evidence that Jane and Rochester marry as equals rather than as master and servant.
- 7th November 1987Explain why a thematic essay should not be organised character by character.
- 8th November 1987What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 9th November 1987Which is more likely to create impact at the end of a tense paragraph: a long complex sentence or a short simple sentence?
- 10th November 1987Identify the relative pronoun in: 'The book, which was on the table, belonged to my sister.'
- 11th November 1987Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang.'
- 12th November 1987How many marks in Section B are for technical accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar?
- 13th November 1987Where does Victor first create and reject the Creature?
- 14th November 1987Name Jane's close friend at Lowood school, who dies of consumption/typhus.
- 15th November 1987How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 16th November 1987Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 17th November 1987Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 18th November 1987Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 19th November 1987Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 20th November 1987What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 21st November 1987Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 22nd November 1987Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 23rd November 1987Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 24th November 1987Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 25th November 1987Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 26th November 1987Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 27th November 1987Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 28th November 1987How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 29th November 1987True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 30th November 1987Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?