GST102

Category: GST102

ATTENTION:

Kindly note that you will be presented with 50 questions randomized from the NOUN question bank. Make sure to take the quiz multiple times so you can get familiar with the questions and answers, as new questions are randomized in each attempt.

Good luck!

GST102

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

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

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

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Falling tone is a change in pitch from _________to low tone

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

A. half formal

B. formal

C. informal

D. semi-formal

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

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Repetition of_________, ideas and wishes is not necessary in doing a summary

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8. _______is a form of direct statement whereby the subject of a sentence takes an object without any inversion.

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Formal letters are --------- in their styles and phraseology

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

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

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

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

A. plagarise

B. summarise

C. paraphrase

D. decode

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

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

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

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17. The English word 'Afterwards' is stressed on the _________ syllable

A. third

B. first

C. second

D. fourth

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18.

Words are made up of separable ______units referred to as Syllables

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19.

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

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

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Contracted forms of language use are allowed in ___________

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

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

A. do it practically

B. listen carefully to a summary lecture

C. learn it off-hand

D. learn together in groups

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24. In this senetence 'The man THAT YOU SAW YESTERDAY WAS the former President of Nigeria' the capitalised group of words is called a ________

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

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

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

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28. 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 _______

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29. One of the following is the correct stress pattern for the word 'commerce'

A. commerce

B. co'mmerce

C. comerce

D. co'mmrce

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

A. past continuous

B. past perfect

C. continuous

D. past

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

A. past perfect

B. simple past

C. past perfects

D. past continuous

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Transition devices is used to link sentences in __________

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33. Which vowel is represented in the word 'whack'?

A. /ai/

B. /ei/

C. /a/

D. /ae/

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34. “It is advised that prison conditions should be improved.” What kind of subject is in the sentence?

A. personal

B. appositive

C. general

D. impersonal

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35.

The tone of your letters should be____________  and considerate

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36.

_________________ qualifies nouns

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 The document containing the bio data of the sender of an application letter is called _________

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

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

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After doing a summary of a ________, it becomes shorter

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

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

A. helps both the reader and the writer

B. makes the paragraph more interesting

C. allows for all the sentences to be built up to the topic

D. allows for an effective summary

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

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Without a proper pronunciation of words, your audience may miss out the ______________ you are trying to express

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

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In a_________, the author takes the reader logically and smoothly from one idea to another

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To make your formal letter __________use the same font and the same font size

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

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The use of the passive voice is more common in ___________

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Sounds in the English language can broadly be divided into _____________and consonants

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