Grammar In Dialogues – Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose, PhD JUST A SIMPLE GREETING Speaker A: Good morning, GAB. Happy Monday! GAB: Good morning! Have a red-letter day,...
Function words such as conjunctions, prepositions, determiners and pronouns do not mostly carry propositional values like content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs). Notwithstanding, they serve...
Basic Essay Types and Their Features – An essay is a short piece of writing on any subject. Essay writing constitutes an integral part of formal...
Reading As A Literacy Skill – Reading is the third communicative skill in the order of acquisition. It is a highly misunderstood and confused activity, as...
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Feature writing is one of the forms of writing found in print media and their electronic forms. It is essential to clarify that, with the advent...
Mass media are tools for reaching out to the general public or a specific audience via mass communication. They are mediums of disseminating information, sharing ideas...
The concept of paragraphing which underlies the division of a piece of writing into paragraphs has been discussed in one of my treatises. A paragraph is...
Achieving Effective Writing – Writing is the activity or occupation of composing text as a task or for publication. It is the fourth in the acquisition...
Confusing Nouns In English – Since words are the building blocks of thoughts, it is essential to have a robust vocabulary to ensure a clear depiction...