Starter quiz
- Which of these texts are likely to be fiction?
- a reference book
- a novel ✓
- a diary
- a poem ✓
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- Tick the sentences that contain parenthesis.
- Leeds (a city in West Yorkshire) has a famous football team. ✓
- Leeds is known for its famous football team.
- Plymouth is a city on the south coast of England and has 250,000 residents.
- Plymouth (a city on the south coast of England) has 250,000 residents. ✓
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- Which section of this sentence could be a piece of parenthesis in brackets? 'World War II 1939-1945 resulted in the deaths of millions of people.'
- World War II
- World War II resulted in the deaths of millions of people
- 1939-1945 ✓
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- Which section of this sentence should be a piece of parenthesis in brackets? 'Spain a country in southern Europe produces lots of sausages.'
- Spain produces lots of sausages
- a country in southern Europe ✓
- produces lots of sausages
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- Which version combines these two sentences correctly using parenthesis in brackets? 'K2 is the world's second-highest mountain. It is 8,611m tall.'
- K2 (at 8,611m) is the world's second-highest mountain. ✓
- K2 (is 8,611m tall) and is the world's second-highest mountain.
- K2 (is the world's second-highest mountain) is 8,611m tall.
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- Tick all the pieces of parenthesis that could be placed inside this sentence: 'China has 1.4 billion people.'
- is a country in Asia
- a country in Asia ✓
- which has 1.4 billion people
- the world's most populous country ✓
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