Blozzom Everyday

Letter Writing a. Informal letters are private or personal letters. They are letters we write to people who are very familiar to us such as our parents, friends, classmates etc. FEATURES OF AN INFORMAL LETTER 1. Writer’s address and date 2. Salutation e.g. Dear Efe, 3. Introduction 4. Body of the letter 5. Conclusion 6. Subscript, Your friend, b. Semi-formal letters are letters we write to people who are not totally strange to us but are not close enough to us to deserve personal letters. E.g our teachers, family doctor, priest etc. The semi-formal letter is more related to the informal letter than to the formal letter. FEATURES OF A SEMI-FORMAL LETTER 1. Writer’s address and date 2. Salutation e.g. Dear Mr. Eze, Dear Mrs Jones, 3. Introduction 4. Body of the letter 5. Conclusion 6. Subscript, e.g. Yours sincerely, c. Formal letters are also called official or business letters. They are written to people in their official positions. They are people we do not

Rhymes A rhyme refers to  two letters that have the same ending sound. Rhyme is also used in poetry to refer to a pair of lines that ends with the same sequence of sounds. Examples: Rhyme Pairs 1.   Should                    Would  2.   Food                        Sued 3.   Bird                         Word 4.   Laugh                       Calf  5.   Ride                          Site  6.   Buy                          Sky  7.   Head                        Said  8.   Fail                           Sail 9.   Hair                          Bear 10. Breeze                     Please  11. Know                        Hoe 12. Crave                        Grave  13. Shock                       Rock  14. ball                           call 15. dove                         love

                                            Rules of Concord Concord refers to the agreement of the subject with the verb in a sentence. Rules  1. When the subject is in the third person, singular, the verb in the present takes ‘s’ or ‘-es’ e.g. Monica listens attentively.  2. When the subject is in the first person, second person and third person plural number, the base form (i.e. plural verb is used.)  e.g. We go to church every Sunday, You brush your teeth every morning. They/the children make a lot of noise in school.  3. In a noun phrase, the verb must agree with the head word i.e. main word  e.g. One of my students has travelled abroad. Everyone of the pupils was rewarded.  4. Two or more singular nouns, connected by ‘and’ expressing the same person/idea/thing must take a singular verb. E.g.  Rice and beans is my best food. The long and short of the matter is that we must work My friend and teacher has made my dream come true. 5. Two or more nouns connected by ‘and’ b