What is Reported Speech? Reported speech is when you tell somebody else what you or a person said before. Distinction must be made between direct speech and reported speech. If we report what another person has said, we usually do not use the speaker’s exact words (direct speech), but reported (indirect) speech. Therefore, you need
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English Language JSS3 First Term Week 9 Contents: Grammar: Prepositions Speech work: Weak Forms Grammar: Prepositions A preposition is a word which precedes a noun (or a pronoun) to show the noun’s (or the pronoun’s) relationship to another word in the sentence. (The word preposition comes from the idea of being positioned before. It is
Verbs A verb is either a linking word or an action word. A verb is the only obligatory element of a clause or sentence. A verb confers meaning on a clause or a sentence. Types of Verb Basically verbs are divided into two. i. Lexical Verb ii. Auxiliary Verb 1. Lexical Verbs: refers to what the
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English Language JSS3 First Term Week 3 Contents: Phonemes Phonetics: Long and short vowels Tenses Phonemes A phoneme is a unit of sound in speech. A phoneme doesn’t have any inherent meaning by itself, but when you put phonemes together, they can make words. A phoneme is the smallest sound unit in a language that is
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While grammar is not as static a science as is typically assumed, there are 20 rules of subject verb agreement that attempt to objectify part of the English language form. Most of the concepts of subject verb agreement are straightforward, yet some aspects of singular and plural usage in English grammar are more complicated. Consider
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English Language SS2 Week 1 Contents: Oral English: The Falling and Rising Tones Vocabulary Development: Using Computers A. Oral English: The Falling and Rising Tone Intonation is the music of the voice. As we speak, our voices are constantly changing from one pitch to another. Intonation often tells us more about the feelings and attitude
English Language SS3 First Term Week 2 Contents: Structure: Revision of Nouns and Noun Phrases Skill Focus: How to study a Text Spoken English: Revision /ə/ and /i/ A. Structure: Revision of Nouns and Noun Phrases a. Nouns: Singular and Plural More words belong to the noun class than to any other class. This is because they
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English Language SS2 First Term Week 9 Contents: Grammar: Nominalization Vocabulary Development: The Human Body Skill Focus: Writing Skills A. Grammar: Nominalization It is useful to expand your vocabulary and one way to do this to know how to use suffixes to form new words. A suffix is something we add to the end of a word
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PUNCTUATION MARKS Punctuation is the system of signs or symbols given to a reader to show how a sentence is constructed and how it should be read. Punctuation is used to create sense, clarity and stress in sentences. You use punctuation marks to structure and organise your writing. We use a variety of punctuation marks,
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English Language JSS3 First Term Week 2 Contents: Writing Skill: Paragraph Construction Skill Focus: How to make notes Prose Writing Skill: Paragraph Construction It is a good idea to plan your writing in paragraphs so that each paragraph is about one topic each paragraph usually contains a topic sentence. The topic sentence is usually (but not