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One way to express plurals of uncountable nouns is by use of expressions of quantity. Example: a piece of information – pieces of information a loaf of bread – four… Read More »PLURALS WITH UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

Countable Nouns These are nouns that take plurals and can be counted. Examples: Egg – eggs One egg, three eggs , ten eggs Potato – Potatoes Twenty potatoes Onion –… Read More »COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

A noun may be either singular or plural. A singular noun names one person, place, thing, or idea. Example: The farmer drove to the market in his truck. A plural noun… Read More »SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS

All nouns can be described as either common or proper. When you talk or write about a person, a place, a thing, or an idea in general, you use a… Read More »COMMON AND PROPER NOUNS

All words may be classified into groups called parts of speech. There are 8 parts of speech namely: Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections. We shall now… Read More »PARTS OF SPEECH

Tenses occurs only in verbs. Tense refers to the changes that takes place in the form of the verb to indicate time. Only two tenses, namely the present and the… Read More »REVIEW OF TENSES

Vowels: There are twenty vowels in the English Language. They include twelve pure vowels and eight diphthongs. Pure vowels /i:/ Seat, Cheap, Sheep /i/ sit, chip, ship /e/ set, bread,… Read More »THE VOWEL AND THE CONSONANTS

Nominalization is the changing of a part of speech into a noun by the addition of a suffix Verbs                                                                         Nouns Advise                                                                        advice Apologise                                                                  apology Authorise                                                                  authority Choose                                                                      Choice Fail                                                                              failure… Read More »Nominalization of Infinitives

Lexis refers to the vocabulary or the entire stock of words in a language. The English language examination seeks to test the scope of the candidate’s vocabulary and his skills… Read More »LEXIS AND STRUCTURE

Comprehension means understanding. Useful hints on answering comprehension questions. Read the passage carefully and quickly to get what it is all about. Read the questions that follow it. Read the… Read More »ANSWERING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

The aspects of oral English tested in the examination include the following: vowels, consonants, rhymes, word-stress, emphatic stress and phonetic symbols. Vowels: There are twenty vowels in the English language.… Read More »REQUIREMENT OF THE EXAMINATION ON ORALS

Lating was the language of the ancient Romans. Nowadays, few people in Europe elsewhere learn Latin, but until the past 70 years or so, it was a language learn I… Read More »Latin Expression used in English

The stressing of a particular word more than other words in a sentence is referred to as emphatic or contrastive stress. Such as a stress normally has its implications in… Read More »CONTRASTING STRESS

Direct Speech This refers to the quoting by a speaker or writer, of the actual utterance of another speaker or writer. This is usually indicated by the use of quotation… Read More »Direct and Indirect Speech

A clause is a group of words with finite verb. A clause should have a subject and a predicate. e.g. John bought a piece of land. Subject: John Predicate –… Read More »CLAUSE

Characteristic of a written speech Formal Salutation (vocatives); There is always an audience to be addressed. In formal situations, people are usually appointed to perform one function or the other.… Read More »Speech Writing