SPEAK RIGHT ENGLISH

Precautions

  • For you to speak the right ENGLISH, you need to know and understand the parts of speech. That is;

  • Noun, pronoun,verb, Adverb, Adjective, Preposition, Article, Interjection, and Conjunction.

  • we will not go into details about these, for they are not our major focus. Nevertheless, having a little knowledge about few of them will help our study. so we will only focus on Noun, pronoun, verd and article
  • NOUN

    A noun is a name of any person animal place or thing. from this defination, you should be able to identify a noun, that is; a person's name, names of animal, names of places, organizations and things.

    Singular and plural NOUN

    Singular nouns are mostly written without "s" at the back. but plural noun has "s" at the back.

     EXAMPLES
    Singular: car     plural:cars   
     It can be "es"
    singular: Box     plural:Boxes
    It can be "ies"
    Singular: baby    plural: babies

    moreover some nouns are pronounced as if they are plural(with surfix "s" at the back), where as they are still singular and they dont have plural.

    Examples
    crisis, Mathematics, statistics, measles, News, etc.

    VERB

    A verb is anyword that dictates the action of a sentences, a verb is also an action word or a doing word.

    Singular and plural verb

    unlike noun, the singular verb is the one that carries a suffix "s" or sufix "es" at the back, while the plural does not.

     
    singular:plays   plural:play
    singular:does    plural:does
    singular:blesses plural:blesses
    singular:cooks   plural:cooks
    

    Do you understand this?

    moreover we have different types of verb.

    1. LEXICAL VERB

    They show the real action such as dance, speak, smoke, jump, bless, etc..

    Note in this example that, they are all plural verb,not singular. "speaks"is the singular for "speak".

    Also you need to understand the simple way to identify a noun from a verb.

    Be gorvern by this simple fact; Verb can have past tense, past participle, even present continuous tense, that is, with "ing" at the back. But a noun does not have all these. or have you heard about"girl-girled" before of course not.

    Moreover there are some noun that can act as verb, depending on the way they are used in a sentences.

    Take for example

    This is my school. Here, "school" is a noun.

    Bur look at this; he is suppose to school at Lagos. Right here, "school" is a verb, which can have past tense(schooled), present continuous tense(schooling).

    2.ANOMALOUS VERB

    These are "has", "have" and "had".

    Note that "have" is the plural pf "has" while "had" is th past tense and past participle of "have" and "has".

    EXAMPLE

    The boy have a pen (wrong)

    The boy has a pen (right)

    MODEL AUXILARY VERB

    These are

    can,could,may,might,shall,should,will,would,ought,must,dare,and need.

    Note that MODEL AUXILARY VERBS do not have singular verb. There is nothing like "cans" or "musts"etc

    we won't go in details about these cause that is not our focus

    PRIMARY AUXILARY VERB

    These are be, been, being, is, are, were, and am.

    they are also known to be irregular verbs.

    PRONOUN

    pronoun are used to replace noun. You may not want to mention the name of any person animal place or thing at all times. Therefore whatever you use to replace a noun is a pronoun.Examples are He, she, it, him, his, they, you, your, my, our, this, those, that, i, me, we, us, who, whom, etc.

    note that pronouns can either but object or subject.

    ARTICLES

    articles are words that are used to introduce a noun in sentences

    example

    A,An, and The

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  • Rules to gorvern your english.
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    RULE 1

    Use singular noun or pronoun for singular verb

    I think you still remember from chapter one that singular verb is the one that carries "s" at the back.

    Examples
    Tunde go to school (WRONG)
    Why? "Tunde" is singular- one person- so the verb to be used should be singular as well.
    That is; Tunde goes to school everyday (right).

    RULE 2

    Use plural noun or pronoun with plural verb

     EXAMPLE 
    They plays too much (wrong)
    "They" is plural while "plays" is singular. so you have to use plural of "plays" which is "play"
    So the correct is; They play to much. (right)

    RULE 3

    "I" As a pronoun is treated like plural is usage most of the time which is wrong

    Examples
    I sleeps like a baby. (wrong)
    I sleep like a baby.(right)
    I has it. (wrong)
    I have it. (right)

    RULE 4

    When you refer to "i" as a word, either at the beginning of a sentence or at the end of the sentence and also in the moddle, it must always be a capital letter.

    RULE 5

    Use past tense to illustrate past events

    I tell him last week that i have done it. (wrong)
    I told him last week that i have done it. (right)

    RULE 6

    Any verb that follows model auxillary verb must be present tense without "s" even when the event is past.examples of model auxillary verbs are, can, will, would, may, dare, should.

    Simple calculation, he could not solve. (wrong)
    simple calculation he could not solve. (right)

    RULE 7

    Use "being" with primary auxillary verb such as: is, are, were or am.

    RULE 8

    use "been" with primary anomalous verb, such as "has, Have and had".ONLY.

    He had being rejected. (wrong)
    He had been rejected. (right)

    RULE 9

    when you use the word "DICUSS" do not put "ABOUT" in front.

    We will discuss about the the matter later.(wrong)
    we will discuss the matter later. (right)

    RULE 10

    when you use the word "comprise" do not add the word "of" in front anymore.

    The team comprise of 11 boys.(wrong)
    The team comprise 11 boys. (right)

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  • Nigeria english to avoid
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    Nigerian' english

    Right english

    I am comming... just a moment or i will be back
    cut hair Have a hair cut.
    deliver a child give birth to a child
    Firstborn/lastborn Firstchild/lastchild
    Next tomorrw The day after tomorrw
    long throat Greedy
    Hear english understand english
    Go-slow Traffic jam
    Big man Influential man
    He know book very well He is very brillant
    I know it off head I know it off hand
    bear palour pub
    we won them we defeated them.
    to put mouth in a matter To discuss a matter.
    He eats our money he embezzled our money.
    He is finding my trouble He wants to peak quarrel with me.
    Come now now Come immediatly
    do quick quick hurry up
    he is doing slow slow he is very slow
    we have long leg we have nepotism
    I drop from the taxi I alight from the taxi
    he is my tight friend he is my close/best friend
    i enter a car/taxi i borad car/taxi
    machine motoer cycle
    yersterday night last night
    pensioier pensioner
    Stop draging the matter Stop arguing over the matter
    the tap is running well the tap is functioning well
    Don't march me Don't step on it
    Hide a secret keep a secret
    i am a indigene of i am a native of
    He is learning at U.I He is studing at U.I
    they are calling you he/she is calling you

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