Mastering English With Ease

GUIDELINES FOR PASSING USE-OF-ENGLISH IN UTME (JAMB) COMPUTER-BASED TEST Special Edition for UTME (JAMB) Candidates In Nigeria                 With the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) billed to hold in March, 2019, it has become expedient to use this article to provide guidelines to the candidates, some of whom are our readers, on how to prepare for, and excel in the USE OF ENGLISH paper.   Needless to say, USE OF ENGLISH is compulsory for all UTME entrants (candidates) irrespective of the programme they wish to pursue in tertiary institutions, and so, it is important to prepare well for it. COMPUTER-BASED-TEST (CBT)           For about four years now, UTME (JAMB) examination has been completely changed from manual-based type in which answers to multi-choice questions were shaded with pencil, to computer-based type in which comp...

HOW TO BUILD YOUR VOCABULARY           The best users of English Language in the world (both in written and spoken form) are those who have worked hard to build an extensive personal vocabulary. That is why we often see some persons with only secondary school or high school education speaking more eloquently or writing more prolifically than some university graduates. The late William Shakespeare of world fame, had only a formal education that is equivalent to Junior Secondary School Class III or Middle High School in our time, but was able to acquire an extensive vocabulary with which he produced marvelous collections of literary works.           How then can you, as a student or an English user, build a personal vocabulary? Basically, (as I have experienced) you need just one or two good dictionary (ies), a note book (that will serve as your vocabulary book or word-bank notebook) and pencil...

MEANING OF THE ABBREVIATIONS: i.e., et al., etc & e.g. i.e. stands for ‘id est’ (Latin), which means that is   or  in other words   (in English).  It is used to indicate that the expression which comes next, is an explanation of what has just been stated or to indicate that what comes next, simplifies as well as give better meaning to a preceding expression. Examples of Usage of  i.e. : (i)                 The Urhobo people have a veritable channel of communicating among themselves and with the outside world i.e. The Urhobo Voice newspaper. (ii)              A university is usually headed by a well-grounded academic administrator i.e. the vice-chancellor. (iii)            Most commodity markets are made up of two categories of people i.e. sellers and buyers. ...