ANIMALS AND SOUNDS List of Animal Sounds with animals images A Apes Sounds gibber Asses bray B Bears growl Bees Hum, Buzz Beetles Drone Birds Sing Bitterns Boom Blackbirds Whistle Bulls Bellow C Calves Bleat Cats Meow, Mew, Purr Chickens Cackle Cocks Crow Cows Moo, Low Crows Caw Cuckoos Cuckoo D Deer Bell Dogs Bark, … Read more
WORD FORMATION PROCESSES WORD FORMATION PROCESSES The processes of forming words can be grouped into two; Major word formation processes 2. Minor word formation processes MAJOR WORD FORMATION PROCESSES Major word formation processes are commonly used in forming words. They include:- Affixation Compounding Conversion MINOR WORD FORMATION PROCESSES Major word classes are those which are … Read more
TOPIC 2: MORPHOLOGY (WORD FORMATION) TOPIC 2: MORPHOLOGY (WORD FORMATION) MORPHOLOGY (WORD FORMATION) Morphology is the study of the structure of the words. It is the study of how words are formed out of smaller units called Morphemes. In morphology we study the structure, properties and functions of the minimal meaningful units of utterances and … Read more
MEANING Translation is a process by which ideas that are written in one language are represented by equivalent words of another language. Translation deals with written texts while interpretation deals with spoken words/information. Interpretation refers to the transfer of ideas from one language to equivalent ideas of another language in form of speech. It involves … Read more
Definition Markers of style are features of a discourse which enable us to identify or recognize its style. The markers of style are sometimes known as LINGUISTIC LEVELS. The markers of style are categorized into five Linguistic levels that are; Graphological/ graphitic level Phonological/phonetic level Grammatical/structural level Lexical level Semantic level 1. GRAPHOLOGICAL LEVEL This … Read more
LEVEL OF FORMALITY Level of formality is the choice of language according to different situation (context). Level of formality result to the different language styles such as follows: Frozen style – It is the style of language that follows strictly the rules of language of a certain field (domain). For example legal language, religious language, … Read more
THE CONCEPT OF STYLISTICS AND OTHER RELATED ISSUES Stylistic refers to the study of Language variations and styles depending on the social situation or context, whether is written or spoken. Language always varies. Stylistic aims at studying Language features or habits/characteristics and why such features are used where they are used i.e. in the newspapers, … Read more
Here are ten questions to help you start speaking English. Each of these questions helps to begin or continue a conversation. The questions are in two categories: Basic Facts and Hobbies / Free Time. There are also a number of questions that can help you continue the conversation after the first question. Five Basic Facts … Read more
ARTICLES Articles are words that used together with nouns or adjectives. They are regarded as a class of determiner and not a word class. The articles normally in most cases are placed before a noun. Example of articles are a, an, the and zero articles. Look the following examples (i) The car Noun (ii) A … Read more
English has different status in different places of the world. In some places it is used as the first language, in others as the L2 while in others as the national language ENGLISH AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE English is an international language What are the criteria for a language to be international? The following are … Read more