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Imaginative composition EITHER a) Write a story starting with: It all started as a rumour but no one in the family took it seriously until… OR b) Write a story...

      

Imaginative composition
EITHER
a) Write a story starting with:
It all started as a rumour but no one in the family took it seriously until…
OR
b) Write a story to illustrate the saying: “The shortest way home is not always the quickest”

  

Answers


Martin
(a)
- Must be a story, if not deduct and for irrelevancy
- Must start with the given sentence, in the first paragraph,
- It should present a scenario about an experience involving a family member, good or bad, that people look for
granted but later took it up seriously.
- It must be in past tense, if not deduct Deduct if length is more than 1½ pages

(b)
- The story must illustrate the saying as it means but not a philosophical discussion of its meaning. If philosophical,
deduct and for irrelevancy.
-The experience should be about trying to do something using the fastest criteria/shortcut but ended up spending a
lot of time or resources i.e. the person suffers as a result of making shortcuts.
- Should not be more than 1
marto answered the question on May 23, 2019 at 11:43


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