Year 9 English — course check

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Year 9 English — course check

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Question 1

A narrator denies waiting but watches arrivals and carries a welcome sign. The strongest conclusion is:

They may be concealing that they are waiting Their visitor is definitely a sibling The station is closed

The actions challenge the denial but do not identify the visitor.

Question 2

Text A says the square 'finally filled with voices'; B says quiet 'vanished'. The contrast suggests:

Identical attitudes Welcome in A and a sense of loss in B No interpretable difference

The selected words frame the same change differently.

Question 3

A first-person poem's speaker must be:

The author's literal autobiography Every reader A voice whose relation to the author needs evidence

A constructed speaker is not automatically the author.

Question 4

Macbeth's phrase 'Vaulting ambition' suggests:

Ambition that can overreach No awareness of ambition A literal sporting instruction

The image connects ambition with excessive movement and danger.

Question 5

Which is a complete passive form retaining the agent?

The editor changing headline The headline was changed by the editor Changed the headline

The subject receives the action and the agent is retained.

Question 6

Before proofreading an argument, prioritise:

Adding more decorative punctuation Inventing statistics Checking reasoning, evidence and organisation

Surface accuracy does not replace a supported argument.

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