Daily Practice · GCSE
September 1988 5-a-day
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Every sheet in September 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1988Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 2nd September 1988Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 3rd September 1988What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 4th September 1988Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 5th September 1988Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 6th September 1988What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 7th September 1988Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 8th September 1988Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 9th September 1988Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 10th September 1988Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 11th September 1988How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 12th September 1988True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 13th September 1988Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 14th September 1988Give one way to bring in context on witchcraft without simply reciting a fact.
- 15th September 1988Give one way the novel presents the limits placed on women.
- 16th September 1988Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 17th September 1988In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 18th September 1988Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 19th September 1988What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 20th September 1988Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 21st September 1988True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 22nd September 1988Explain what equivocation means in the play and why it matters to the theme of appearance and reality.
- 23rd September 1988Define free indirect discourse and give one moment where Austen's use of it misleads the reader.
- 24th September 1988Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 25th September 1988Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 26th September 1988Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 27th September 1988In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 28th September 1988Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 29th September 1988Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.
- 30th September 1988Name three themes in Macbeth other than ambition, and give one moment in the play where each is most visible.