English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.
The word in capital letters has the emphatic stress. Choose the option to which the given sentence relates.
Adamu is leaving a CAR behind?
Options:Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Everyone, including the Principal, believed that he was very assiduous student?
Options:Choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letters underlined.
Air?
Options:Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).
The point you have made is quite apt
Options:For this question, select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the question.
Her death was a bolt from the blue to us.
Options:In each of the following sentences, there is one underlined word. From the list of words lettered A to D, choose the one that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word.
The test shows that the lumps are malignant.
In the question below choose the option opposite in meaning to the word underlined:
Her identification with the king is publicly known
Options:Developments in electronic science have transformed the art of record keeping to the modern age. Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people’s minds. It depends very much on the retentive power of the human memory. This was extremely dangerous as people either forgot events wholly or in part or deliberately falsified details to suit their various interests. Interminable arguments were thus order of the day. Even writing which replaced mental recording was not entirely free from these shortcomings as untruths could be written as true either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however these dangers have been largely overcome. Recording on audio and video cassettes now show not what happened, but also who did or said what including how and when
How many stages of development did the writer mention while discussing the art of record keeping? Options:Fill in the gap with the option that best completes the sentence.
I have always found that it is helpful to have a few wise and trusted people to ________ you can turn for information and advice.
Options:Those who are familiar with it will tell you that Ludo, like human life itself, is a game both of chance and skill. You need skill in deciding how to make the most advantageous use of the figures that turn up on the die when you cast it. Since each player has at least four alternative ways of using his figures, two players with equal luck may fare differently, depending on how cleverly each one uses his figures. The element of luck, again as in human life, plays a dominant role however. For no matter how skilful a player may be in using the figures he gets on the die, he has a slim chance of winning if he continually throws low figures. While a combination of ones and twos may be useful in checking the advance of one’s opponents, it will not take one home fast enough to win. On the other hand: consistent throws of sixes and fives with the very minimum of skill, will help a player to home all his four counters before any of the three other players, unless, of course, he has no idea of the game at all.
According to the passage, a player with consistently high throws will Options: