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In this sentence, what word class is "during"?
The ancient oak creaked loudly during the storm.
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In this sentence, what word class is "Our"?
Our teacher hid the answers beneath a heavy book.
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Which words complete this sentence correctly?
By Friday we ___ been rehearsing for a month.
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Which words complete this sentence correctly?
Every morning the ferry ___ at half past six.
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Which sentence uses apostrophes correctly?
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Which sentence uses apostrophes correctly?
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Which sentence uses commas correctly?
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Which sentence uses commas correctly?
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Which sentence punctuates the speech correctly?
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Which sentence punctuates the speech correctly?
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Which relative pronoun completes this sentence?
The boy ___ bag was left behind is in Year Five.
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Which group of words is the subordinate clause in this sentence?
We ran for the bus because we were already late.
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Which of these sentences is written in the passive voice?
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Which of these sentences is written in the passive voice?
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Which word or phrase is the most formal way of saying "go up"?
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Which word or phrase is the most formal way of saying "put up with"?
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Which prefix turns "understand" into its opposite?
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Which prefix turns "legal" into its opposite?
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Which word correctly completes this sentence?
The path was ___ than it looked from the road.
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Which word correctly completes this sentence?
Have you finished ___ homework yet?
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Poem 161 words
The Pier
They closed the pier the winter I turned ten.
A fence went up. A notice, going grey,
explained in words too small to read from land
why we could not go out along the bay.
My grandfather had danced there, so he said,
in nineteen fifty-something, in the rain,
and paid a shilling at the turnstile end,
and would have paid a shilling once again.
It stood all through my growing, going down
by inches, in the way that iron goes:
a rust-brown ribcage lying in the sea,
patient, and taken slowly, as it chose.
The gulls approved. They had it to themselves —
a hundred yards of ballroom, roofless now,
the dance floor open to the weather's step,
the orchestra a wire, an empty bow.
And I have never walked on it, not once,
and never will. But I can tell you where
the turnstile was, and what my grandfather paid,
and how the band sounded. I was not there.
The remaining questions are about this passage.
How old was the speaker when the pier was closed?
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Why can the speaker not read the notice?
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The pier is described as "a rust-brown ribcage lying in the sea". What does this image suggest?
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Why does the poem say the pier was "taken slowly, as it chose"?
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In the fourth verse, what is the effect of describing the ruin using the language of a ballroom?
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What does the final line, "I was not there", tell us?
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What did the speaker's grandfather pay to get onto the pier?
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What is the poem mainly about?