Voice is a term that is used to explain whether the performer of an action comes before the action (verb) or whether it comes after the verb in a sentence. When the performer comes before the verb (action) we say the verb is in the active form e.g. Dairokilled a snake. (Active voice) S […]
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Identification and examples. In this lesson, we will explain the morphophonemic approach at identifying a stressed syllable. In this approach, stress placement is determined as a result of the occurrence and arrangement of vowels (short, long, diphthongs) and consonants in syllables. Guidelines A (i) For two syllable vowels, simple adjectives, adverbs and prepositions, Stress
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Reading for Details and inference. The word “key “as used in the first paragraph in the passage refers to a fuller degree of physical Health. Health is being in a perfect state and where the body and mind are active. Disease is when there is no health, and where one does not maintain perfect health,
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WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH SEXUALITY AND RELIGION Do you believe in life of the spirit and in one or more 1? if you believe that there is only one God, it means you are 2 (a monotheist) but if you believe that there is more than one good, you are 3 . In ant case, some
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Slanting the news – expressing the news in a biased or prejudiced way so as to mislead the public censor – to approve whatever is published or broadcast before it is made public. Curtail – restrict Director – A person who directs the performance of a movie Producer – a person who has general control
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A story is a description of events and people that a writer or speaker has invented in order to advocate or entertain. Examples include love story, detective story, adventure, science fiction story e.t.c. There are two types of story writing that are tested by WAEC and NECO: A story that is meant to illustrate
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An adjectival clause performs the functions of an adjective i.e. it qualifies a noun or its equivalents. An adjectival clause begins with a relative pronoun such as who, which, that, whose, where, whom etc. hence it is called a (defining) relative clause as well. This clause is not separated by a comma from the noun
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In this lesson, we will explain the morphophonemic approach at identifying a stressed syllable. In this approach, stress placement is determined as a result of the occurrence and arrangement of vowels (short, long, diphthongs) and consonants in syllables. Guidelines A (i) For two syllable words, Simple Adjectives, Adverbs and Prepositions, Stress the first syllable
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A dictionary is a book that gives a list of the words of a language in alphabetical order and explains what they mean or gives a word for them in a foreign language:e.g a French- English dictionary. A common dictionary typically has following structure. Word entry i.e the word to be explained is written
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Room service – this is a service that lets guests order food or drinks and have it delivered to their rooms. Bars – where you go to have a drink in hotels Brochure – a small piece of paper containing advent of local attractions. Continental breakfast – a light breakfast served in a common area
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A prepositional phrase is a group of words, which begins with a preposition and ends with a noun pronoun or noun phrase called its complement. Examples Preposition + Noun He is in trouble. Trust in me. Preposition + Pronoun Please, bear with me. Go after them. Preposition + Noun Phrase She is always yelling
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Concord is the agreement of the subject with the verb in a sentence Rules When the subject is in the third person and singular, the verb in the present takes ‘s’ or ‘-es’ e.g. Monica listens attentively. When the subject is in the first person, second person and third person plural number, the base
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A prefix is a group of letters or syllable which is attached to the front of a root word to form another word which usually changes its meaning. The following are examples with their meaning. Prefix Meaning New Words/Derivative un- not unhappy, untrue dis- not discomfort, dislike non- not nonsense, non-smoker mis- wrong mismanage,
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Definition, Features, Sample Question,Outline An article is a type of writing that is meant to be published in a school magazines, a newspaper or a journal. Basic Features It must have a heading It must have an introductory paragraph Its body should contain at least three well development paragraphs which should serve as the
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A adjective is described as a word that qualifies or modifies nouns and pronouns. Adjectives generally give more information about nouns and pronouns in items of their attributes such as quality, colour, quantity, etc.; words come nearer to the nouns they modify than all other elements that modify such nouns. TYPES OF ADJECTIVES USES There
A conjunction is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses within a sentence. It is used to show a relationship between the connected elements. Conjunctions are used to coordinate, subordinate, or correlative, and they play an important role in constructing and combining sentences. Conjunctions are words which join phrases, clauses and sentences.
Indirect speech is used to refer to a person’s words without quoting him or her exactly. It is also referred to as indirect quotation or reported speech. The original spoken words are not repeated. The exact meaning is given without repeating the speaker’s words. Example: Direct speech: The governor said, “Creating new jobs will be
The word noun is derived from a Latin word “nomeri” (a name). a noun can therefore, simply be defined as the name of anything. It may be concrete, real or tangible such as Ayo, Lagos, Book, Teacher, Pupil, Water etc. It may be abstract, intangible or imaginary such as Hope, Fear, Belief, Wish, Idea, Thought,
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‘A’ ‘an’ and ‘the’ are known as Articles they are in fact demonstrative adjectives. KINDS OF ARTICLES There are two types of articles Definite Articles Indefinite Articles Definite Articles: – An article which is used to refer to a particular person or thing is known as the definite article. Example ‘the’ Indefinite Article: –
DIPHTHONGS The diphthongs or impure vowels are eight. A diphthong represents a sound that consists of a movement or glide from one vowel quality to another. It has been observed that during the glide, the first vowel sound is given more prominence than the sound vowel sound. Thus in pronouncing vowel 13, /ei/ for example,