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Question 8

The carrier’s Thursday cart

Text 1: By carrier to Ashby, by Henry Coltman

An original journal written in a nineteenth-century voice; a period simulation, not an archival document.

The carrier’s cart leaves the Swan at seven on Thursdays and reaches Ashby, eleven miles off, by the middle of the afternoon. I took a seat in it today among baskets of eggs, a crate of hens and a widow returning from her daughter’s. Mr Dunnage, the carrier, stops wherever a hand is raised from a gate. At one farm he delivered a parcel of tea; at another he collected a letter to be posted in Ashby and a list of goods to be fetched back next week. Nobody seemed to find this slow. In these lanes he is post office, shop and newspaper together, and every halt gave him a piece of news to carry on to the next.

Give one phrase that shows the carrier is important to the people who live along his route.

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2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /English Language
  3. /2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills

160 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE English Language 2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills, covering 2.3.1 Identify and interpret key ideas, 2.3.2 Comment on writers’ language choices, 2.3.4 Summarise and synthesise across texts, 2.3.7 Evaluate usefulness, bias and misuse of evidence, 2.3.8 Use context to inform reading, and 2.3.9 Explore connections across texts. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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