Write Well

Read the next part of the story from 'tom's midnight garden' by Philippa Pearce and complete the missing parts. Read the whole passage and understand the type of word needed before beginning to fill in the words. This will help you guess the nouns that suit the context.

'I'm going through,' Tom gasped, and was seized with alarm and delight.
On the other side of the , the gardener had emptied his barrow-load of and was sitting on the handle of his barrow, in front of a potting-shed, eating his midday . If he had been able to see at all he would have seen a most curious sight; a very thin slice of , from shoulder to foot, coming through a perfectly solid wooden . At first the came through evenly from top to bottom; then, the upper part seemed to stop, and the part came through in its entirety, legs first. Then one came through, then another. Finally, everything was through except the .