The noticeboard after rain
By the time I reached the community garden, the noticeboard was dripping from the night's rain. Several sheets had become sodden, and the bottom edge of one was curled away from the wood. The caretaker had pinned a clear plastic cover over the centre, but water still gathered along its lower seam. I had come to read the planting schedule; instead, I studied the board's damaged papers.
Select two separate words or phrases in the passage that show the condition of the notices when the writer arrived.
232 exam-style questions on Edexcel A IGCSE English Language 1.2 Section A: Non-fiction Texts, covering 1.2.1 Focus of Section A, 1.2.2 Reading challenging non-fiction in preparation for the unseen text, 1.2.3 Reading substantial and extended texts, 1.2.4 Skills of interpretation and analysis, 1.2.5 Range of non-fiction forms, 1.2.6 Literary non-fiction text types, 1.2.7 Transient texts excluded from assessment, 1.2.8 The anthology as a supporting resource, and 1.2.9 Digital location of texts. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.