Text: an original contemporary personal account-style practice extract.
After football practice, I cleaned my muddy boots by the back door. I placed them on an old towel, brushed off the dry mud and pushed sheets of newspaper inside them. The newspaper helped the boots keep their shape while they dried.
Identify the material that the writer put inside the boots.
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.