Essay No One Could Understand Why She Failed To Turn Up
Essay No One Could Understand Why She Failed To Turn Up
Essay No One Could Understand Why She Failed To Turn Up
Write a story which includes the sentence: ‘No-one could understand why she
failed to turn up.’ (350-500 words)
A large number of candidates did not take the expression ‘failed to turn up’
at face value to mean ‘not putting in an appearance’ but rather they took it at a
more colloquial level and interpreted it as meaning that someone did not put in a
good performance. Some took the expression to mean ‘he/she failed’. The problem
with these was that in order to perform badly or fail they did indeed have to ‘turn
up’ which was something of a contradiction. However, these interpretations were
largely given some benefit of the doubt although they resulted in a loss of narrative
climax. Good narratives made excellent use of properly punctuated dialogue
in this essay but weaker responses could have used speech more in order to vary
the narrative and add life to it.
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