GST102

1. It has been observed that students who want to be well-focused in their writing, need to learn how to _____

A word that replaces another with the same meaning is called a ___________

Transition devices also bring ___________in a paragraph

Constant ___________of the English sounds makes you a good speaker English

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

A letter to your study centre director of your missing scores it is called a letter of _______

7. Indicate the sentence type, simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. Kara loves to go to the beach. This is a  ________ sentence

Dictionaries give the ______________ meanings of words

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

In Nigeria languages tone that brings about a change in the meaning while in English a change in meaning is as a result of _________

__________ is the extra effort used in speaking or pronouncing a word 

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

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

14. Identify the infinitive phrase in the sentence. Choose a car to please yourself, not others. The infinitive phrase is ______

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

__________ are used to represent sounds in the dictionary

Homophones are ___________that have the same pronunciation but differ a little in spelling

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

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

The English vowels and consonants are very important to ______ spoken English

_________________ qualifies nouns 

22. The ________ is used to describe past events, and emphasise their effect on the speaker's present situation.

Words are made up of separable ______units referred to as Syllables

The use of jargon should be avoided in _____writing

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

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

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

The use of the passive voice is more common in ___________

A formal letter must have the __________of the sender and the receiver

Being able to _________ yourself well in an interview gives you greater chances of getting the job

Wrongly ____a word can lead to wrong meaning being expressed

After doing a summary of a ________, it becomes shorter

The primary stress is on the _____ syllable in the word "locomotion".

Deletion is an avoidable thing you must do when ______a passage

35. A defining relative clause is so called because they define or specify the _______ which they qualify.

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

The application letter is a _________to an advertisement

A paragraph is a piece of writing which is unified by a central, controlling idea or _____________

The ---------- of a paragraph may be a problem, statement or a Generalization

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

41. Beginning a paragraph with a topic sentence helps both the ________ and the reader.

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

43. The only way you can learn how to summarise is for you to ______

44. A defining relative clause begins with a relative _____

In a word, the part that has the stress is pronounced with _____force

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

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

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

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

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