Starter quiz

  • Why could 'The Second World War' not be the subject of a biography?
    • it is not in the past
    • it is not important
    • it is not a person  ✓
    • it did not affect people
  • Which of these is not a linguistic feature of a biography?
    • second person  ✓
    • third person
    • formal tone
    • past tense
  • Which sentence is appropriate for use in a biography?
    • She didn't really have much training.
    • When she began working with chimps, Jane had no formal training.  ✓
    • Jane had no idea what she was up to at the start.
    • You won't believe how unprepared Jane was to start with.
  • Match the types of fronted adverbial to the examples.
    • formal fronted adverbial
      ⇔
      In addition,  ✓
    • fronted adverbial of time
      ⇔
      After she left school,  ✓
    • fronted adverbial of cause
      ⇔
      As a result,  ✓
  • Which sentences contain a relative clause?
    • Who was Jane Goodall?
    • Jane, who always loved animals, longed to go to Africa.  ✓
    • Jane moved to Tanzania, which is next to Kenya.  ✓
    • One chimp was very aggressive - Jane wasn't sure which.
  • Which sentence has the brackets placed correctly to show the parenthesis?
    • In 1957, Jane moved to Nairobi the (capital of Kenya).
    • In 1957, Jane moved to (Nairobi the capital of Kenya).
    • In 1957, Jane moved to Nairobi (the capital of Kenya).  ✓
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