Legal English – There is no gainsaying that other languages have contributed significantly to the development of the English language. These contributions have birthed a branch...
Too many cooks spoil the broth. So says an English idiom. The fact that English has borrowed from so many world languages seems to have injected...
Achieving cohesion in (English) writing goes beyond knowing so many words. The Cambridge Dictionary defines cohesion thus: (of objects) the state of sticking together, or (of...
Deploying collective nouns is a problematic aspect of English usage for many a second-language speaker. Collective nouns refer to entire groups of people, animals, or things...
Nonliteral Communication – The use of language involves much more than knowing it and being able to produce and recognise sentences in it. Akmajian et al....
Ethnic Stereotypes In Nigeria – The linguistic pluralism and ethnic diversity of Nigeria have constantly birthed multifarious dimensions of stereotyping in the country. Nigeria is made...
Nigeria At 63 – First things first, I wish the readership in Nigeria a Happy Independence Day. I hope no one said “Happy Independent” or “Happy...
Stative Verbs In English – Many Nigerians are familiar with the definition of a verb as “an action word or a doing word”. This correct but...
A memorandum, often shortened as a memo, is used for official communication usually within an organisation. “Memo” or “memorandum” is a singular noun, whereas the plural...
In my column of September 23 2022, I discussed in some detail (not, in some details) the functions of the commonly used punctuation. Bear in mind...
