GST102

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

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

Dictionaries give the ______________ meanings of words

4. 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 _______

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

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

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

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

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

Apart from _____stress there is also sentence stress

The use of jargon should be avoided in _____writing

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

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

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

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

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

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

Falling tone is a change in pitch from _________to low tone

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

The word "pretend" can be an adjective as well as a _____________

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

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

23. Which street d'you live in? is an example of _____ statement.

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

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

Summarization involves condensing and ____ a large piece of writing

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

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

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

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

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

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

Transition devices is used to link sentences in __________

__________ are used to represent sounds in the dictionary

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

In a _________ instead of using "I beg to state" use enquiry instead

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

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

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

40. 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

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

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

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

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

In English language there are more sounds than there are letters in the __________

46. A defining relative clause begins with a relative _____

In a formal letter, the signature comes before the __________of the sender

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

Deletion is an avoidable thing you must do when ______a passage

50. Fill in the blanks with have or has: _______ he arrived already?