A clause is a group of words that has a subject and a finite verb and which forms part of a sentence e.g. The referee blew his whistle and the… Read More »STRUCTURE | Clauses – Subordinate and Insubordinate
This refers to the addition of prefixes, suffixes and infixes to words leading to new words, meaning and word classes. Examples (verbs) verbs+ –ment e.g. Enslavement, achievement Management, movement… Read More »Structure: Affixation: Suffixes
An idiom is a phrase or group of words whose meaning cannot be deduced from the individual meanings of the words in the phrase. The following are few examples of… Read More »Structure: Idioms
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… Read More »Vocabulary Development: Hotel & Catering
The /I:/vowel sound is long while the /I/ is short. They are contrasted using the following words. /I:/ /I/ eat it beat bit seat sit heel hill feel fill seen … Read More »Speech Sounds /I/ and /I:/ contrasted
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… Read More »Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Films and TV
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,… Read More »Structure: Adjectival Clause
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… Read More »Essay Writing: Story Writing
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… Read More »Speech Work: Stress Placement on Two or More Syllable Words
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… Read More »Grammar: Rules of Concord
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… Read More »The Use of the Dictionary
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… Read More »Structure: Prepositional Phrase
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… Read More »Writing: Article Writing
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… Read More »Vocabulary Development: Prefixes
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.… Read More »Structure: Active and Passive Voices
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… Read More »Speech Work: Stress Patterns
This is a written composition that is expected to be delivered to a live audience. It is therefore necessary to consider the languagevis-à-vis the interest of the audience. Primarily, speeches… Read More »Essay Writing | Speech Writing, Explanation and Features
Publishing: The profession or business of preparing and printing books, magazines, CD-ROMS etc and selling or making them available to the public e.g. Evans Brothers is a reputable publishing company.
Manuscript: Copy of a book, piece of music etc before it has been printed or a very old book or document that was written by hand before printinge.g. The author has sold his manuscript to a publishing outfit.
Content: Definition,Types and Examples A conditional sentence has at least two clauses, one beginning with if (or ‘unless’ which means ‘if …. Not’) Examples: If inflation is high, the value… Read More »Conditional Clauses | Definition,Types, Examples & Complex Sentence
The focus here is to see how uncountable nouns can be made countable. Countable nouns are those we can count, they usually have singular and plural forms Example: girl –… Read More »Structure – Making Uncountable Nouns Countable