Highlight the inverted commas in this text.

Do they all enclose the words actually spoken.

Look at the words outside inverted commas. What function do they have?

“Come on,” called Clac.  He sat on the turf balk dividing his strip from the next, waiting impatiently.  “This sun… I’ve had enough of it.”

“So have I,” groaned Grim.  He slumped against the balk.

“And so have I,” sighed Swein, collapsing in a heap like a sack of potatoes. Suddenly, a movement caught Clack's attention.

“Come on,” cried Clac, “you and you and all the rest of you.”

Panting heavily, the others followed him. “Look!” insisted Clac, pointing again. “Look!” And there, huddling in the hollow of the largest pit, the cottars saw what Clac had seen: two green children. Their skin was green, their hair was green, they wore green clothes. And one was a boy, the other was a girl.

LC: Generate questions to deepen understanding.

What is this growing on Barleycorn land?

What is this standing where once stood a tree?

Is it intended for Barleycorn hands?

I wonder, thinks he, could this be for me?

His wife wants to know where it came from.

He says, "Where the wildflowers grow."

She says, "It belongs to the wild then,

And back to the land it should go."