An original fiction passage set in the nineteenth century.
At dawn, Ellen spread a clean cloth across the market stall and arranged the apples in neat rows. Her father was still leading the pony into the yard, and no customers had yet entered the square.
From the first sentence, give two preparations Ellen makes at the market stall.
456 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE English Language 1.3 Content: prose fiction study requirements, covering 1.3.1 Read challenging prose fiction for the unseen 19th-century extract. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.