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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Dictionaries give the ______________ meanings of words
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2. Identify the infinitive phrase in the sentence. Think about what you can do to know more about automobiles. The infinitive phrase is ______
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3. 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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One difficulty about English pronunciation is that there is no perfect correspondence between _________and sounds
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Secondary _____is weaker than the primary stress
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A word that replaces another with the same meaning is called a ___________
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After doing a summary of a ________, it becomes shorter
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8. The only way you can learn how to summarise is for you to ______
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Combining two or three _____of a passage into one will help condense the passage
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10. Official reports, business letters, legal documents are often written in ______ language.
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In a word, the part that has the stress is pronounced with _____force
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12. One of the following is the correct stress pattern for the word 'commerce'
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In English language there are more sounds than there are letters in the __________
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In a _________ instead of using "I beg to state" use enquiry instead
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The words "pocket", "pretend" and "docket" all have ____
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16. A defining relative clause begins with a relative _____
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17. Placing a topic sentence at the end of a paragraph _________
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18. The opening sentence in a paragraph, states the central __________of that paragraph for the reader.
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19. 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 use of jargon should be avoided in _____writing
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21. The ________situation of a country determines the way a speech is presented.
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The ---------- of a paragraph may be a problem, statement or a Generalization
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23. In the sentence, 'I have been waiting for sometime now' the tense form is_________.
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Transition devices is used to link sentences in __________
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25. Complete the sentence with the appropriate relative pronoun: Chinua Achebe was the author _______ wrote "Things Fall Apart".
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Summarization involves condensing and ____ a large piece of writing
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27. The type of error contained in this sentence 'I was awakened by loud cry' is called ________
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In English unlike in Nigerian languages there is not perfect ________ between spelling and sound
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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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30. The word 'important' carries stress on its ________ syllable
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Falling tone is a change in pitch from _________to low tone
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32. The English word 'Afterwards' is stressed on the _________ syllable
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The application letter is a _________to an advertisement
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34. "Life is great!" is an example of _______ sentence
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35. _______is a form of direct statement whereby the subject of a sentence takes an object without any inversion.
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In a_________, the author takes the reader logically and smoothly from one idea to another
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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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38. Fill in the blanks with have or has: _______ he arrived already?
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Deletion is an avoidable thing you must do when ______a passage
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The primary stress is on the _____ syllable in the word "locomotion".
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41. Which vowel is represented in the word 'whack'?
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42. She longed for a friend in whom she could confide' is an example of _____ statement.
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43. 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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44. Which street d'you live in? is an example of _____ statement.
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45. In the sentence, 'The President arrives from China tomorrow', the tense form is __________.
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Complex sentences with ______clauses are deployed in summary writing to make the passage shorter
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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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When you are bringing out the differences in two items in paragraph development you are using ____________ technique
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Being able to _________ yourself well in an interview gives you greater chances of getting the job
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Transition devices also bring ___________in a paragraph
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