FROM THE TABLE OF SEN.UTHMAN BILAL NASELS PRESIDENT

��GREAT ELLIC!

����Education is the light to darkness!!  & this is why it is worth pursuing at all cost!                       

   
��"The cost of
college education
today is so high
that many young
people are giving
up their dream of
going to college,
while many
others are
graduating
deeply in debt".

��CONCLUSIONS ON SOME OLD
POSTS

1. It is inappropriate to say ‘You
deserves the gold medal’ but
appropriate to say ‘You deserve
the gold medal’.
‘You’ refers to the person or
people that someone is
speaking or writing to.
Note: ‘You’ takes the plural verb
whether it is referring to people
or a person.

2. It is correct to say ‘I am the
only one who does the house
chores’ but incorrect to say ‘I
am the only one who do the
house chores’.

3. It is incorrect to say ‘I wish I
meet/ meets him today’ but
correct to say ‘I wish I met him
today.
I wish I didn’t have to go to
work.
We wish we could have done
more.
She wished Katie would stop
crying. LASD

4. It is inappropriate to say ‘I
haven't hurt him, am/hadn’t/
are/did I?’ but correct to say ‘I
haven't hurt him, have I?’.
You haven't sent her away,
have you? CCED

5. The expressions ‘have to’ and
‘ought to’ have different
meanings.
‘Ought to’ is used to say that:
a. someone should do
something.
You ought to take a day off.
I ought not to be telling you
this.
We ought to have invited them
back with us (but we didn’t).
b. you expect something to
happen or be true.
The weather ought to be nice in
August.
Have to:
a. if you have to do something,
you must do it because
someone makes you do it, or
because it is necessary.
Susan hates having to get up
early.
You don’t have to answer all the
questions.
b. is used to say that it is
important that something
happens.
You have to believe me!
There has to be an end to all
this violence.
c. is used to tell someone how
to do something.
First, you have to take the
wheel off.
d. is used to say that you are
sure that something will
happen or is true.
This has got to be a mistake.
Prices will have to come down
eventually. LASD

6. It is correct to say ‘Many of
my friends that visit me are
scholars’ but incorrect to say
‘Many of my friends that visits
me is scholars’/ ‘Many of my
friends that visit me is
scholars’/ ‘Many of my friends
that visits me are scholars’.

7. It is incorrect to say ‘A
number of stolen cars has been
recovered by the police’ but
correct to say ‘A number of
stolen cars have been
recovered by the police’.
NOTE: A plural verb is needed
after a / an (large, small, etc.)
number of....
A number of (which means
‘some’) problems have arisen.
OALD

8. It is correct to say ‘Who ate
my food yesterday?’ but
incorrect to say ‘Who eat/eaten
my food yesterday?’.

9. The words ‘poo’ and ‘wee’ are
informal expressions spoken by
or to children.
i. Poo/ pooh
a. [uncountable and C] a child's
word for the solid waste that is
passed through the bowels
b. [countable usually singular]
the act of passing waste from
the bowels
I want to do a poo!
Poo can also be used as a verb,
and its American form is ‘poop’.
ii. Wee
a. (verb) BrE spoken to pass
water from your body - used by
or to children
Do you need to wee?
b. (noun) [singular]
Do you want a wee? LDOCE,
OALD

10. It is incorrect to say ‘He
seldom drink/suck fruit after
food’ but correct to say ‘He
seldom eats fruit after food’.
Try to eat plenty of fresh fruit.
LDOCE

��SOURCE: PROF. ADENIKE AKINJOBI...
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH....
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN....

��HAVE A BLESSED DAY!

#SEN. S.U. BILAL 
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