The reading that could not be trusted
An original account by an invented weather observer.
At first I entered zero rainfall. The collecting cylinder was empty, and the water level had not reached the first line on its scale. As I replaced the cover, however, I noticed a curled leaf wedged tightly across the funnel.
The empty cylinder could no longer give me a certain answer. Perhaps no rain had fallen, or perhaps water had been prevented from entering the gauge. I struck out zero rainfall and wrote no valid reading instead.
The correction looked untidy on the page, but it made the record more accurate. I was no longer claiming to know what the weather had done; I was recording what the faulty instrument could not tell me.
How does the account help readers understand the writer's change of mind?
528 exam-style questions on WJEC GCSE English Language 3.1 Section A (20%) – Reading, covering 3.1.1 Understanding description, narration and exposition texts, 3.1.2 Range of continuous and non-continuous texts, 3.1.3 Short and extended response question types, and 3.1.4 Editing task at word, sentence and text level. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.