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Complex Sentence    This is a type of sentence structure which consists of one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses, hence it is denoted by (M1, S1 or more ). When writing this type of sentence, any of the clauses could come first, but it is advisable to write the dependent clause first before the main clause so as to achieve sentence vigour. All conditional clauses are complex sentences. Examples (i) If I were your father, I would punish you.              Sub. Cl. M. cl. (ii) Whenever it rains, I don’t go to work.             Sub. Cl. M. cl. (iii) Since I came to this school, I have never been punished because I always obey the rules             Sub. Cl. M. cl. Sub. Cl. (iv) I will call you when I’m less busy.       ...

Grammar: Tenses   Tense is a term which applies to verbs, and it is used to indicate the time of an action: past, present, future tense. These are the basic categories of tenses we have in English.  The Past Tense – is used to express a past action. This is indicated in most verbs by adding ‘ed’ or ‘d’ to them. This type of verbs are called the regular verbs . Example of such verbs are: voted, waited, counted, preached, visited, cured, answered, elected, abrogated, punched, perfected etc. verbs which do not take ‘ed’ or ‘d’ to form their past are called irregular verbs e.g. built, threw, said, paid wore, sent, swam, set, cast, ran, wrote etc.  The Present Tense – is used to express the current time i.e. now. This tense could be singular or plural and it must agree with the subject in a sentence.  Examples are vote, wait, say, count, preach, elect, answer(v), remove, empower, tolerate, activate etc.  The Future Tense –This is done by putt...

FORMAL LETTERS Formal letters are official letters written to people in official positions. Features of a Formal Letter 1. Writer’s Address This should be written at the top right hand corner of the page like this:                                                                                                                  15 Broad Street,                                                                                                      ...

ADVERBS An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective and/or another adverb. It could answer the questions when, where, why, how, to what, extent, how often or under what condition an action has taken place. Adverbs are formed by adding ‘-ly’ to adjectives, therefore most words with ‘-ly’ ending are adverbs. Some adverbs are however not easily recognised because they could be adjectives in some context Functions of Adverbs  A. Adverbs modifying verbs (i) Blessing runs fast (ii) Tosin walks slowly The underline adverbs above are modifying their preceding verbs i.e. ‘runs’ in (i) and ‘walks’ in (ii) …… B. Adverb modifying adjectives  (i) Taiwo is very tall. (ii) Sunny became quite uncomfortable The underlined adverbs above are modifying adjectives following them i.e. tall in (i) and ‘uncomfortable’ in (ii) C. Adverb modifying another adverb  (i) Blessing runs extremely fast (ii) Tosin walks too slowly. The underline adverbs above are modi...

Consonant Sounds Consonant sounds are speech sounds produced with a partial or total obstruction of air from the vocal tract.  There are 24 consonant sounds in English Language. Consonant sounds are divided into two major parts:  1. The voiced consonant sounds and  2. The voiceless consonant sounds.  For Example : Consonants /s/ and /z/ /s/ is a voiceless alveolar fricative  /z/ is a voiced alveolar fricative Example of words which contain consonants /s/ and /z/ /s/                     /z/ S ow                Z oo  S ip                 Z ip Ble ss             Bree ze   Ri ce               Ri se  Di ce               Drie s  Bu s         ...

VERBS A verb is an action word. It tells us what the subject of a sentence does. There are two types of verbs: Transitive and Intransitive verbs. Transitive Verbs These are verbs that have or take objects. Example : 1. One man does the work.  2. I broke my leg. 3. She slapped the boy.  4. The tailor made a beautiful dress. Intransitive Verbs These are verbs that don’t take or have objects Examples: 1. A cock crows . 2. I slept very well yesterday. 3. The baby cries everyday. However, some verbs can be used either as transitive verbs (that is, with objects) and as intransitive verbs (that is, without objects) e.g; ate i. He ate rice (rice is the object) ii. He ate (no object) fight   i. I can fight him (Him is the object) ii. I can fight (no object) sing i. Bimpe sings a song everyday (song is the object) ii Bimpe sings everyday (no object) EVALUATION List five verbs, use them in sentences and state whether the verbs are ...