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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.
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GST102
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Homophones are ___________that have the same pronunciation but differ a little in spelling
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2. She longed for a friend in whom she could confide' is an example of _____ statement.
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3. One of the following is the correct stress pattern for the word 'commerce'
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4. 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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Complex sentences with ______clauses are deployed in summary writing to make the passage shorter
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Formal letters are --------- in their styles and phraseology
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7. In the sentence, 'The President arrives from China tomorrow', the tense form is __________.
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The main _________between the formal and informal letter is in the use of language
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9. In the sentence, 'She was singing happily' the tense form is __________.
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10. Fill in the blanks with have or has: _______ he arrived already?
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11. Conferences and seminars help to bring ______ in a particular subject together to present their experiences and views.
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The primary stress is on the _____ syllable in the word "locomotion".
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In a _________ instead of using "I beg to state" use enquiry instead
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Secondary _____is weaker than the primary stress
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Transition devices also bring ___________in a paragraph
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One difficulty about English pronunciation is that there is no perfect correspondence between _________and sounds
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17. Complete the sentence with the appropriate relative pronoun: Chinua Achebe was the author _______ wrote "Things Fall Apart".
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------------- entails keeping the rules, customs and conventions that are observed in our society
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Falling tone is a change in pitch from _________to low tone
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In Nigeria languages tone that brings about a change in the meaning while in English a change in meaning is as a result of _________
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21. A defining relative clause is so called because they define or specify the _______ which they qualify.
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22. No sentence can be correct in English without proper sequence of _______
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In English language there are more sounds than there are letters in the __________
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_____________ brings a change in meaning in English utterances
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Transition devices is used to link sentences in __________
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26. The word 'important' carries stress on its ________ syllable
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27. 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
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The word "pretend" can be an adjective as well as a _____________
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A longer sentence is usually divided into ____or sense groups, these can also be called tone groups
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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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31. Beginning a paragraph with a topic sentence helps both the ________ and the reader.
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32. Identify the voice of the underlined verb in the sentence as active or passive. The art of football commentary was developed along with the sport. The verb is ____
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The use of jargon should be avoided in _____writing
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34. The only way you can learn how to summarise is for you to ______
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Well-articulated discussion is possible with one another because we have adequate _____________
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36. Official reports, business letters, legal documents are often written in ______ language.
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The tone of your letters should be____________ and considerate
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After doing a summary of a ________, it becomes shorter
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Deletion is an avoidable thing you must do when ______a passage
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40. Fill in the blanks with have or has: Now, you _______ learnt the secret of happiness.
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The letter written to the INEC chairman asking for clarification on voting procedure is a ----------
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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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The method of development of the paragraph you choose should be the one that will most effectively put across the ________you want to make
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45. a' and 'an' are called ______ articles
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In a word, the part that has the stress is pronounced with _____force
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Apart from _____stress there is also sentence stress
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Summarization involves condensing and ____ a large piece of writing
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49. Placing a topic sentence at the end of a paragraph _________
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50. The type of error contained in this sentence 'I was awakened by loud cry' is called ________
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