Daily Practice · GCSE
March 2009 - GCSE 5-a-day
Every GCSE sheet published in March 2009, with answers. GCSE - language techniques, structure, comparison and exam-style writing.
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Every sheet in March 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2009What changes Elizabeth's view of Darcy, and in what order?
- 2nd March 2009Explain in one sentence why a single-word sentence such as 'Gone.' can be effective.
- 3rd March 2009Is 'When the bell rang' a main clause or a subordinate clause?
- 4th March 2009Identify the sentence type: 'The bell rang, and the students filed out.'
- 5th March 2009What should the structure question track across the whole extract?
- 6th March 2009Who is wrongly executed for the murder of Victor's brother William?
- 7th March 2009Why does Jane leave Thornfield Hall on what should have been her wedding day?
- 8th March 2009How does the natural world reflect the disorder Macbeth causes?
- 9th March 2009Why does Elizabeth refuse Mr Collins, and what does the refusal show?
- 10th March 2009Rewrite these two short sentences as one varied complex sentence: 'The rain fell. The streets flooded.'
- 11th March 2009Underline (state) the main clause: 'Because it was raining, the match was postponed.'
- 12th March 2009Rewrite 'It was raining. We stayed inside.' as one compound sentence.
- 13th March 2009How many sections does Paper 1 have?
- 14th March 2009True or false: Victor completes the female companion the Creature demands.
- 15th March 2009Who mistreats Jane at Gateshead Hall before she is sent away to school?
- 16th March 2009Why is the sleepwalking scene written in prose when Lady Macbeth speaks in verse elsewhere?
- 17th March 2009Explain what the entail is and why it drives the plot.
- 18th March 2009Identify the sentence opening technique used here: 'Slowly, the door creaked open.'
- 19th March 2009In 'The man who lives next door, although he is quiet, works nights,' how many subordinate clauses are there?
- 20th March 2009Identify the sentence type: 'Although the bell rang, nobody moved.'
- 21st March 2009What does the four-mark question at the start of Section A test?
- 22nd March 2009Who is the recipient of the letters that frame the novel?
- 23rd March 2009True or false: Jane marries St John Rivers.
- 24th March 2009What is the effect of ending the play with Macbeth's severed head displayed on a pole?
- 25th March 2009Why is the opening sentence ironic?
- 26th March 2009Write a two-sentence pair, one long and one short, describing a sudden silence after a loud crash.
- 27th March 2009Combine into one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction: 'The team trained hard. They wanted to win the final.'
- 28th March 2009Explain why a writer might follow three long sentences with one very short sentence.
- 29th March 2009In 'the lift doors had jammed half-open,' identify one language technique.
- 30th March 2009Identify the technique in Victor's description of the Alps: 'the immense mountains and precipices...the palaces of nature.'
- 31st March 2009Identify the technique in the description of Bertha Mason as a figure locked in the attic at Thornfield.