GST102

1. In the sentence, 'I have been waiting for sometime now' the tense form is_________.

2. The topic sentence is most frequently found at the _______ of the paragraph.

For correct pronunciation you must learn to use the ___________every time you come across any new word

4. The ________situation of a country determines the way a speech is presented.

Falling tone is a change in pitch from _________to low tone

6. In the sentence, 'The girl had accidentally been harrassed by the agents’ the tense form is _________

Connection between the sentences is one of the elements that go into the _________of a good paragraph

Deletion is an avoidable thing you must do when ______a passage

9. Indicate the sentence type, simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. Naturally, Joy does not enjoy chopping firewood, killing mosquitoes, and cooking over an open fire. This is a __________ sentence

10. Which of the following words does NOT have a short vowel?

11. State if this sentence is FORMAL or INFORMAL: She longed for a friend in whom she could confide. _____

"For instance" and "as an illustration" are transition devices that give  ____________

13. The opening sentence in a paragraph, states the central __________of that paragraph for the reader.

The application letter is a _________to an advertisement

The method of development of the paragraph you choose should be the one that will most effectively put across the ________you want to make 

16. Identify the voice of the underlined verb in the sentence as active or passive. The game of football will keep Nigerians glued to their television sets for a long time to come. The verb is _______

One difficulty about English pronunciation is that there is no perfect correspondence between _________and sounds

"won", "one", "take", "sit", "bit", "peak" and "come" are all ___________

19. In the sentence, 'She was singing happily' the tense form is __________.

_________________ qualifies nouns 

21. State if this sentence is FORMAL or INFORMAL: Which street d'you live in?

Secondary _____is weaker than the primary stress

23. Identify the word that does NOT have this consonant / j /.

24. a' and 'an' are called ______ articles

Combining two or three _____of a passage into one will help condense the passage

------------- entails keeping the rules, customs and conventions that are observed in our society

27. The word 'important' carries stress on its ________ syllable

28. A defining relative clause begins with a relative _____

29. Fill in the blanks with have or has: Now, you _______ learnt the secret of happiness.

The letter to your sister describing a tourist site your visited during the last Christmas is an -----------

Contracted forms of language use are allowed in ___________

In speech, there is always the movement of the ____of the speaker's voice from high to low or from low to high

33. She longed for a friend in whom she could confide' is an example of _____ statement.

Beginning a paragraph with the topic sentence helps the _________to immediately know what the paragraph is about

Transition devices also bring ___________in a paragraph

36. Official reports, business letters, legal documents are often written in ______ language.

37. Fill in the blank with do or does: How _______ we get there?

The words "pocket", "pretend" and "docket" all have ____

39. A long sentence is usually divided into what may be called breath groups, or_________ groups.

40. Identify the voice of the underlined verb in the sentence as active or passive. It is preferred to basketball. The verb is _____

Complex sentences with ______clauses are deployed in summary writing to make the passage shorter

42. Complete the sentence with the appropriate relative pronoun: Chinua Achebe was the author _______ wrote "Things Fall Apart".

43. Placing a topic sentence at the end of a paragraph _________

44. Identify the infinitive phrase in the sentence. You may need to do some research. The infinitive phrase is _____

45. In the sentence, 'The President arrives from China tomorrow', the tense form is __________.

In English unlike in Nigerian languages there is not perfect ________ between spelling and sound

Apart from _____stress there is also sentence stress

The main _________between the formal and informal letter is in the use of language

When you are bringing out the differences in two items in paragraph development you are using ____________ technique 

50. Identify the voice of the underlined verb in the sentence as active or passive. Today, football is been played by both men and women. The verb is _______