adminIT is vacation again pupils and students!
I welcome you with a very simple self-assessment task. After all you have been buried in your studies hook, line and sinker for one damn long term. You need to take it easy as you rest, you deserve it. But please keep yourself in academic gear.
Any adult of whatever station who believes in continuous learning, please note, you can join the students. Smart adults always strive to sharpen personal communication skills. And what can be better than avoiding embarrassing common errors in everyday verbal communication? Here we go!
Can you identify what is grammatically incorrect with the following statements we hear people speak every day?
1. None of the girls are present.
2. The car costed him a lot of money.
3. She forgot to reply my letter.
4. The wife wears a trousers too.
5. The teacher was changed. He was becoming a nuisance at the school.
6. I prefer tea than coffee.
7. Gringo is the best cooker in the world.
8. Most of the people they hate smokers.
9. One of the career students look forward to is Medicine.
10. We must know who are those culprits.
11. We don’t know where is the problem.
12. One of the car was confiscated by Police.
13. Statues which represents apartheid were destroyed in South Africa.
14. All of us has the right to education and health.
15. The local member of Parliament have spoken. You cannot argue.
16. You must make sure the people gets what they want.
17. The Province have done what it must do.
18. The schools has done very well in that area.
19. If the bank borrows me money, I will start the project immediately.
20. One of the teacher died in the accident.
If you get these statements right, all of them, makorokoto! If you get more than half wrong, you need to be honest with yourself. Work hard on common errors. You can save your face when next you address that audience if you are a church speaker, preacher, teacher or an authority presenting a paper. Even when you are on that date, trying to win over a future life-partner who knows the language better than you, eich! May be you are a classroom practitioner / teacher who is delivering a lesson to students who are, most of them, smarter English language speakers. I know you don’t want to hear this. May be you are a candidate this year aiming at an A+ in your Communications Paper or Composition writing. Get these errors straight, Now!
Please don’t hesitate to call me or whatsapp me on 0773 883 293 if you cannot correct any one of the above embarrassing but very common errors. I will make it very easy for you.
Enjoy your holiday. But Beware the ides of October-November!
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