The path through the salt marsh
Text: an original contemporary nature-feature-style practice extract.
The path seemed to end at a strip of water. I had been following the marker posts, but the next one stood on the far side of the channel, its white top bright against the reeds. I looked for a way around. There was none that I could see.
Then the water began to move. A narrow line of mud appeared between the path and the post, followed by another, until the channel had divided into a set of shallow pools. The guide waited while we crossed. No one announced that the route had changed; the ground simply offered it back.
At the gate, the guide asked each of us to name one thing we would carry away. I said, “the pools”. By then, water had covered them again. On the drive home, I kept revising my answer: the pale post, the exposed mud, the route that had been there only briefly.
Analyse how the writer uses language and structure to interest and engage the reader.
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834 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE English Language 2.3 Content: non-fiction study and transactional text types, covering 2.3.9 Write an article, 2.3.10 Write a letter, 2.3.11 Write a review, 2.3.12 Write a text for a speech, and 2.3.13 Write a section for a guide, textbook, leaflet or booklet. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.