JSS 3 English Language (1st, 2nd & 3rd Term)

LITERARY TERMS

Plot: The plot is the arrangement of the story of the play. The summary of the story line of the play is expected to be arranged orderly so as to avoid confusion – a story line is expected to have a beginning, the middle and an end. Theme: This is also called subject matter. It […]

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PART OF SPEECH

A adjective is described as a word that qualifies or modifies nouns and pronouns. Adjectives generally give more information about nouns and pronouns in items of their attributes such as quality, colour, quantity, etc.; words come nearer to the nouns they modify than all other elements that modify such nouns. TYPES OF ADJECTIVES USES There

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CONJUNCTION

A conjunction is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses within a sentence. It is used to show a relationship between the connected elements. Conjunctions are used to coordinate, subordinate, or correlative, and they play an important role in constructing and combining sentences. Conjunctions are words which join phrases, clauses and sentences.

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MEANING AND TYPES OF NOUN

The word noun is derived from a Latin word “nomeri” (a name). a noun can therefore, simply be defined as the name of anything. It may be concrete, real or tangible such as Ayo, Lagos, Book, Teacher, Pupil, Water etc. It may be abstract, intangible or imaginary such as Hope, Fear, Belief, Wish, Idea, Thought,

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ARTICLE

‘A’ ‘an’ and ‘the’ are known as Articles they are in fact demonstrative adjectives. KINDS OF ARTICLES There are two types of articles Definite Articles Indefinite Articles   Definite Articles: – An article which is used to refer to a particular person or thing is known as the definite article. Example ‘the’ Indefinite Article: –

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VOWEL SOUNDS

DIPHTHONGS The diphthongs or impure vowels are eight. A diphthong represents a sound that consists of a movement or glide from one vowel quality to another. It has been observed that during the glide, the first vowel sound is given more prominence than the sound vowel sound. Thus in pronouncing vowel 13, /ei/ for example,

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ESSAY WRITING

Writing is a form of persuasive communication. There is always a point of view to project and which the writer wants the reader to understand. In other words, we write for a reader. The success of writing is therefore best judged by how well the reader understands the message we are trying to send by

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Verbs

A verb is a word or group of words that express an action or a state. Examples: Go, jump, sleep, eat, think, be, change, become, drive, complete. Example sentences: We had a nice lunch. I think that he is right. He drove for hours. The word “verb” comes for the Latin word verbum, which means

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Adjectives

An adjective is a word that describes a person or thing. Examples: Big, pretty, expensive, green, round, French, loud, quick, fat. Example sentences: He has big blue eyes. The new car broke down. The old lady was talking in a quiet voice. The word “adjective” comes from the Latin word jacere, which means “to throw.”

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Positive statement to Negative

Sentence transformation: affirmative to negative Change the following affirmative sentences into negatives. In the simple present tense, we make negative forms by putting ‘not’ after ‘do’ or ‘ does’. Note that ‘do’ is used when the subject is a plural noun or pronoun. The first person pronoun ‘I’ also takes the verb ‘do’. ‘Does’ is

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CONSONANT SOUNDS

As we already know, there are forty-four speech sounds on English. While twenty of them is vowels, the remaining twenty four are consonants. A consonant is produced with the flow if air from the lungs is in erupted somewhere in the ducal clarity (mouth). A consonant is therefore a speech sound which produced with the

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Verb + Preposition

PREPOSITION Adjectives The two examples given above (sorry, concerned) fall into this category. The category as a whole tends, like them, to express emotions, e.g. happy, glad, pleased, delighted (all with about/for/ with), angry, annoyed, furious, upset, disappointed (all with about/ with) and anxious, embarrassed (both with about/for). However, there are also emotion adjectives with

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Stress and Intonation

Stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence. In English, stressed syllables are louder than non-stressed syllables. Also, they are longer and have a higher pitch.English is a stress-timed language. That means that stressed syllables appear at a roughly

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SYNONYMS

Synonyms are words that are similar or nearly the same in meaning. For example, killing is a deliberate act that causes somebody/something to die.

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Poetry

THE ELEMENTS of POETRY Poetry, as man’s inherited possession, is the expression of strong feeling and thought which leads to a communion between the individual and his surroundings, but most usually between a person and nature, the world, or the universe. Poetry is the means of universalizing and perpetuating a thought, an idea, a feeling,

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CONTRAST /t/ and /s/

contrast t shirt
contrast to synonym
contrast to sky blue
contrast to something
contrast synonym
contrast to sharp
contrast to sentence examples
contrast to stretch
contrast to swallow
what is the difference between with contrast and without contrast

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ADVERBS OF MANNER

Adverbs of Manner What is an adverb of manner? Adverbs of manner describe how something happens. For example, it is possible to walk or run at different speeds. The words used to describe walking or running at different speeds (quickly or slowly for example) are excellent examples of adverbs of manner. They help the reader

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