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.
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GST102
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The English vowels and consonants are very important to ______ spoken English
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2. _______is a form of direct statement whereby the subject of a sentence takes an object without any inversion.
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The words "pocket", "pretend" and "docket" all have ____
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One difficulty about English pronunciation is that there is no perfect correspondence between _________and sounds
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The tone of your letters should be____________ and considerate
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6. Official reports, business letters, legal documents are often written in ______ language.
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7. In the sentence, 'She was singing happily' the tense form is __________.
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For correct pronunciation you must learn to use the ___________every time you come across any new word
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Combining two or three _____of a passage into one will help condense the passage
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10. 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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11. The ________ is used to describe past events, and emphasise their effect on the speaker's present situation.
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12. The word 'important' carries stress on its ________ syllable
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13. Fill in the blank with do or does: _____ you know how to make a cup of tea?
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After doing a summary of a ________, it becomes shorter
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15. 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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16. Complete the sentence with the appropriate relative pronoun: Chinua Achebe was the author _______ wrote "Things Fall Apart".
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"won", "one", "take", "sit", "bit", "peak" and "come" are all ___________
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In speech, there is always the movement of the ____of the speaker's voice from high to low or from low to high
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__________ is the extra effort used in speaking or pronouncing a word
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21. Identify the infinitive phrase in the sentence. Choose a car to please yourself, not others. The infinitive phrase is ______
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A word that replaces another with the same meaning is called a ___________
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23. Which of the following words does NOT have a short vowel?
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A paragraph is a piece of writing which is unified by a central, controlling idea or _____________
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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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26. 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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27. Fill in the blank with do or does: How _______ we get there?
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To make your formal letter __________use the same font and the same font size
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------------- entails keeping the rules, customs and conventions that are observed in our society
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30. 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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In English unlike in Nigerian languages there is not perfect ________ between spelling and sound
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The English language has ______ consonant sounds
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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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34. The ________situation of a country determines the way a speech is presented.
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Wrongly ____a word can lead to wrong meaning being expressed
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Apart from _____stress there is also sentence stress
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37. The type of error contained in this sentence 'I was awakened by loud cry' is called ________
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The Memorandum is used for __________communication in an organization
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Sounds in the English language can broadly be divided into _____________and consonants
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40. In the sentence, 'I have been waiting for sometime now' the tense form is_________.
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Transition devices also bring ___________in a paragraph
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The letter written to the INEC chairman asking for clarification on voting procedure is a ----------
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Falling tone is a change in pitch from _________to low tone
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44. No sentence can be correct in English without proper sequence of _______
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A letter to your study centre director of your missing scores it is called a letter of _______
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Connection between the sentences is one of the elements that go into the _________of a good paragraph
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__________ are used to represent sounds in the dictionary
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48. Fill in the blanks with have or has: _______ he arrived already?
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49. A defining relative clause begins with a relative _____
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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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