GNS112_OBJ_Questions.txt

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[QUESTIONS]

<1>The topclass Nigerian universities are determined to _________ the quality of education.

<2>Some people are failures or under-achievers because ________.

<3>Anyone who wants to communicate effectively using English must
_______.

<4>As a system of communication, a given language has its own sets of ________.

<5>Learning involves the following activities except _______.

<6>________ is a major study skill factor.

<7>It is the _________ of study skills that enables the learner to be in charge of his/her own learning.

<8>Personal positive attitude helps ______

<9>Study skills are habits that instill _________ in the learner once well cultivated.

<10>Which of the following is not a study skill strategy for the English as a second language learner?

<11>Learners frequent interactions with colleague, teachers and scholars on-line help to ensure _________.

<12>Which of the following is not a level of reading comprehension?

<13>Reading has ________ nature and is purpose bound, especially at the advanced level of learning.

<14>The minister was alarmed _______ the drop in quality of education.

<15>For understanding to take place, the basic foundation needed is ________.

<16>Words combine to form __________.

<17>An important feature of language is its ________

<18>The English as a second language countries include all except ________.

<19>_______ to come this weekend to listen to the broadcast of the football match?

<20>Factors affecting study skills include all except ________.

<21>Computers are now cheap _______ for nearly everyone to afford it.

<22>You’re looking _______ pretty today, Temy.

<23>I promise to do my ________ best.

<24>Water ________ hydrogen and oxygen.

<25>Agnes left the school very late, _____________

<26>“Soyinka is good at play writing and Achebe is good at prose writing”
Identify the sentence type.

<27>“Mathematic _________ compulsory for engineering students”.

<28>The boy and the girl _______ gone home.

<29>Which of the following is not a quality of good English?

<30>Inspite of the seemingly scarcity of marriageable men today, many a girl ________ to get married at the age of twenty-one.

<31>He was _____ weak _____ he could not climb the stairs.

<32>Some of the food _____ spoilt.

<33>The University of Ilorin _____ a large collection of sporting ______.

<34>The lecturers with his wife ______ here.

<35>Neither Hallema, nor her sisters _____ attending the party tomorrow.

<36>The boys as well as their father _____ travelling.

<37>Under such circumstances, one might not really be able to help ______.

<38>The five girls love _______.

<39>Identify the sentence type

The tall slim, dark-complexion good looking young man in that car recently returned from India.

<40>Identify the sentence type
They do not know how to play draught but they are good commentators of the board game.

<41>Identify the sentence type
To be frank, he has severe injuries during the accident but his parents were assured of best medical care when the teams of doctors arrived.

<42>Identify the sentence type
Whenever political aspirants read out their manifestoes, the electorates are sometimes usually downcast.

<43>Identify the sentence type
The horse neigh; the rider fell down.

<44>Effective study skills include all of the following except:

<45>In English, the active learning skills include ______ and______.

<46>The passive language skills in English are _______ and_______.

<47>The punctuation mark “e.g.” is also known as _________.

<48>It is referred to as an important language because many people in South Africa ________ it.

<49>All except ______ is used to mark off parenthetical statements.

<50>The job was done meticulously well.

<51>Although she invited me to her birthday party, I will not be able to attend because my examination is fast approaching.

<52>The school authority and not the student ______ responsible for the crisis on campus.

<53>Comprehension is a _____ activity of effective reading skills.

<54>‘…’ on the network news as the National Award winners ‘….’
The punctuation mark used is an example of _______

<55>______ is not one of the learning skills in English language.

<56>The literacy language skills are reading and ________.

<57>Note making/taking and outlining is information _______ techniques.

<58>The Dean and Secretary ______ the meeting regularly.

<59>Were I to eat the food, my brother would have been sad.

<60>While you may not approve my private affairs you have to agree that I am hard working.

<61>As I was late to the party, I was unable to find a seat.

<62>He walked to the podium as though he were a king.

<63>Joshua is so tall that we could easily locate him among the spectators.

<64>What they told me was wrong.

<65>We are sorry that we came late.

<66>However hard she worked she never passed.

<67>I’m going I’m going where no one can find me.

<68>John saw her while she was going for the game.

<69>Kofi shed crocodile tears

<70>I had to cudgel my brain in order to solve that problem.

<71>John wears his hearts on his sleeves.

<72>Adeola is always jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

<73>James and Martha live a cat-and-dog life.

<74>I watched him ________ the rice last night.

<75>_________ you want to come to the party now that I’m going too?

<76>If I _______ an elephant I would run!

<77>I love _______ down your road to visit my friend.

<78>He had gone away before we _______ that the money was missing.

<79>I don’t know his name but I remember _______ him in London.

<80>________ by the teacher, John did not enter the classroom.

<81>The woman said she saw the victims ______ from the roof

<82>The children listened attentively to the stories of the _______ man.

<83>Toyin was pleased with the ______ skirt her mother gave to her.

<84>He fell in love with the ______ graduate

<85>Julian prides herself _______ her cooking.

<86>Peter accused his friend _____ taking his pencil.

<87>Mrs. Thomas was advised not to submit ________ her husband’s rough treatment.

<88>The painter appears to be worthy _________ his wages.

<89>The baby was eating _____ food.

<90>The teacher collected his book and _______

<91>This is not your cup; it must be ________.

<92>You have now gotten _______ to complete the investigation.

<93>Have you heard ________ news about him since he left?

<94>They must have been blind not to have seen him, __________?

<95>John said that we could attend his birthday party, ________?

<96>The study skill that enhances the storage and retrieval of information in the process of learning is ________

<97>A learner takes notes under the following situations except _______

<98>Note-making comes to play when a learner does the following except _________

<99>A dictionary shows how a word is pronounced through one of the following:

<100>The study skill which allows the learners to focus on core elements in a material under study is called _________

<101>The first step in the use of a dictionary is to _________

<102>Registers are influenced by the relationship that exists between a
speaker/writer and the listener/reader.
The relationship is called _______

<103>“Good-for-Nothing” is an example of which of theses classes of nouns:

<104>The following verbs strengthen or add special shade of meaning to the real action performed except _________

<105>The constituents of a clause include the following except ________

<106>A grammatical structure which contains a subject and predicate is called _________

<107>When there is a subordinator at the beginning of a clause then, the clause is an example of a/an ___________

<108>A noun clause functions in the following ways except _______

<109>A sentence is a complete grammatical utterance which contains ________

<110>A statement is also referred to as ________

<111>Which of these sentence types state a verifiable truth or situation?

<112>Which of these is true of a simple sentence?

<113>The subject position in a sentence is occupied by which of the following clauses of words?

<114>When two simple sentences are formed with the use of a coordinating conjunction, they become a __________

<115>A sentence that has one independent and one or more dependent clause is a _________

<116>“Teachers are always happy when their students perform well because they are fulfilled.”
The sentence above is a _________

<117>“Kola is my enemy” is not a statement that comes from me, I can only quote the statement using __________

<118>A full stop performs one of the following functions _________

<119>Which of these is/are the function(s) of a comma?

<120>In “Shade speaks fluently”,

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[OPTIONS]

<1>keep up
keep up with
keep on
keep at

<2>they don’t like the library.
they are unable to manage their time effectively.
they are poor readers.
they are quiet speakers.

<3>l earn to verbalize
understand how others act and feel
take pains to learn the rules
take pains to listen

<4>conversions
conventions
corrections
conversations

<5>sleeping
reflecting
thinking
organizing facts

<6>the mind
the foreground
the background
the context.

<7>appreciation
memorization
anticipation
application

<8>contents
study habits
distractions
interrogations

<9>Content learning
knowledge
discipline
comprehension

<10>PQRST
time management
Personal motivation
Personal equipment

<11>academic objectiveness
academic currency
academic harvest
academic competence

<12>critical
inferential
liberal
literal

<13>intrusive
invalid
intricate
intrinsic

<14>with
on
at
for

<15>Information
communication
concentration
reflection

<16>sentences
clauses
phrases
morphemes

<17>structure
texture
strength
stature

<18>Ghana
India
Nigeria
USA

<19>Do you like
Would you like
Are you like
Will you like

<20>hybridizing
the study time
the study venue
reading aloud to oneself

<21>enough
so
too
quite

<22>very
attractively
beautifully
too

<23>possible
very
feasible
variable

<24>varies between
migrates
consists of
corresponds to

<25>didn’t she?
isn’t it?
hasn’t she?
hadn’t she?

<26>complex
simple
compound
compound complex

<27>is
as
are
were

<28>has
have
had
is

<29>coherence
emphasis or focus
unity
none of the above

<30>Intend
intended
plans
plan

<31>very/that
so/that
too/that
so/when

<32>were
are
have
is

<33>has/equipment
have/equipments
had/aids
has/costumes

<34>were
were to be
are
was

<35>were
is
are
was

<36>hated
love
loves
will love

<37>oneself
themselves
myself
one another

<38>themselves
ourselves
one another
each other

<39>compound complex
simple
complex
compound

<40>compound
simple
complex
compound-complex

<41>complex
simple
compound-complex
compound

<42>compound complex
simple
complex
compound

<43>complex
simple
compound-complex
compound

<44>time management
self-indulgence
self-discipline
concentration

<45>speaking and writing
speaking and listening
speaking and reading
writing and listening

<46>speaking and writing
speaking and listening
reading and writing
reading and listening

<47>exempli gratia
exemplify gratia
exception graft
exempli gratio

<48>Are speaking
spoke
speak
speaks

<49>inverted comma
comma
the dash
question mark

<50>noun phrase
adverb phrase
verbal group
adjectival phrase

<51>main clause
subordinate clause
parallel clause
reciprocal clause

<52>are
were
was
is

<53>constructive
cognitive
conjunctive
connective

<54>Three dots
ellipses
elision
subtraction

<55>reading
writing
communication
speaking

<56>writing
listening
thinking
speaking

<57>residual
refusal
recorder
reception

<58>attends
were attending
attend
attended

<59>adverbial clause of condition
adverbial clause of manner
adjectival phrase
adverbial clause of reason

<60>adverbial clause of manner
adverbial clause of reason
adverbial clause of concession
adverbial clause of degree

<61>adverbial clause of reason
adverbial clause of manner
adverbial clause of place
adverbial clause of time

<62>adverbial clause of condition
adverbial clause manner
adverbial clause of result
adverbial clause of time

<63>adverbial clause of degree
adverbial clause of concession
adverbial clause of reason
adjectival clause

<64>adverbial clause of noun
noun clause
adjectival clause
noun phrase

<65>adjectival clause
adverbial clause of reason
noun clause
noun phrase

<66>adverbial clause of contrast
adjectival clause
adverbial clause of reason
adverbial clause of degree

<67>adverbial clause of place
adverbial clause of reason
adverbial clause of purpose
adverbial clause of manner

<68>adverbial clause of reason
adverbial clause of time
adverbial clause of manner
adjectival clause

<69>profuse tears
a few tears
no tears
insincere tears

<70>give my brain some rest
think hard
study my books more
abandon my own attempts

<71>John is heartless
John is an ordinary person
John is kind
John is a thoughtful man

<72>taking the right decisions
frying pancakes on the fire
going from a bad to a worse situation
taking the right decisions

<73>a life devoted to the care of cats and dogs
a happy life
a life full of quarrels
a life of reciprocating favours

<74>eating
eats
eat
ate

<75>shall
could
would
will

<76>saw
see
have seen
had seen

<77>walking
walked
walks
be walking

<78>discover
had discovered
discovered
have discovered

<79>to meet
to have met
meeting
to be meeting

<80>haven been punished
being punished
having been punished
haven being punished

<81>to have fallen
to be falling
fall
fell

<82>grey-haired wise old
wise grey-haired old
old grey-haired wise
wise old grey-haired

<83>beautiful new pale yellow cotton
pale yellow beautiful new cotton
new beautiful yellow pale cotton
beautiful yellow cotton new pale

<84>young intelligent British
intelligent young British
young British intelligent
British young intelligent

<85>with
about
on
for

<86>of
in
for
about

<87>In
at
to
for

<88>with
for
of
to

<89>Its’
it’s
it’s own
its

<90>everyone’s else
everyone else
everyone’s else’s
every persons

<91>of her’s
hers
for her
her’s

<92>a sufficient information
many informations
sufficient information
plenty of informations

<93>plenty
many
several
much

<94>didn’t they?
musn’t they?
weren’t they?
wasn’t it?

<95>couldn’t we?
didn’t he?
did he?
won’t we?

<96>personal motivation
paragraphing
note-making
information integration

<97>when listening to a lecture
when participating in a seminar
during consultation in the library
listening to a pre-recorded tape on a subject matter

<98>when reading a textbook
when consulting a lecture note
when going through a journal
when listening to a lecture

<99>stress
syllable
inflections
rhyme

<100>note-making
note- taking
outlining
comprehension

<101>consult the dictionary straightaway
break the word into smaller unit
determine the contextual usage of the word
determine the word’s part of speech

<102>field of discourse
tenor of discourse
mode of discourse
nature of discourse

<103>common noun
collective noun
compound noun
proper noun

<104>be
is
are
writes

<105>word
phrase
sentence
none of the above

<106>a phrase
a word
a sentence
paragraph

<107>independent clause
dependent clause
main clause
all of the above

<108>subject of the clause
object of the clause
qualifier
as gerund

<109>a linearly arranged words
a structurally related words
independent and dependent clause
all of the above

<110>an imperative sentence
interrogative sentence
a declarative sentence
an exclamatory

<111>an exclamatory sentence
an imperative sentence
a declarative sentence
an interrogative sentence

<112>it contains only one independent clause
it begins with a capital letter and ends a full stop
it contains a subject and predicate
all of the above

<113>noun
adverb
adjective
verb

<114>complex sentence
compound sentence
compound complex sentence
multiple sentence

<115>complex sentence
compound sentence
compound complex sentence
multiple sentence

<116>simple
compound
complex
compound complex

<117>question mark
parenthesis
an hyphen
an inverted comma

<118>marks the end of a sentence/thought
shows surprise
makes additional information in a sentence
list items

<119>listing items
separating an introductory or transitional words from other parts
of a sentence
gives additional information
all of the above

<120>a singular subject agrees with a singular verb
a plural subject agrees with a plural verb
a singular subject agrees with a plural verb
none of the above

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[ANSWERS]

<1>keep up

<2>they are unable to manage their time effectively.

<3>take pains to learn the rules

<4>conventions

<5>sleeping

<6>the mind

<7>application

<8>study habits

<9>discipline

<10>Personal equipment

<11>academic currency

<12>liberal

<13>intricate

<14>at

<15>concentration

<16>phrases

<17>structure

<18>USA

<19>Would you like

<20>hybridizing

<21>enough

<22>very

<23>very

<24>consists of

<25>didn’t she?

<26>compound

<27>is

<28>have

<29>none of the above

<30>plans

<31>so/that

<32>is

<33>has/equipment

<34>was

<35>are

<36>love

<37>oneself

<38>one another

<39>simple

<40>compound

<41>compound-complex

<42>complex

<43>compound

<44>self-indulgence

<45>speaking and writing

<46>reading and listening

<47>exempli gratia

<48>speak

<49>question mark

<50>adverb phrase

<51>subordinate clause

<52>was

<53>cognitive

<54>ellipses

<55>communication

<56>writing

<57>reception

<58>attends

<59>adverbial clause of condition

<60>adverbial clause of concession

<61>adverbial clause of manner

<62>adverbial clause manner

<63>adverbial clause of concession

<64>noun clause

<65>adjectival clause

<66>adverbial clause of contrast

<67>adverbial clause of place

<68>adverbial clause of time

<69>insincere tears

<70>give my brain some rest

<71>John is heartless

<72>going from a bad to a worse situation

<73>a life full of quarrels

<74>eat

<75>would

<76>see

<77>walking

<78>discovered

<79>meeting

<80>having been punished

<81>fell

<82>wise old grey-haired

<83>beautiful new pale yellow cotton

<84>intelligent young British

<85>about

<86>of

<87>to

<88>of

<89>its

<90>everyone else

<91>hers

<92>sufficient information

<93>much

<94>weren’t they?

<95>didn’t he?

<96>note-making

<97>during consultation in the library

<98>when listening to a lecture

<99>stress

<100>outlining

<101>determine the contextual usage of the word

<102>tenor of discourse

<103>compound noun

<104>writes

<105>sentence

<106>a sentence

<107>dependent clause

<108>qualifier

<109>all of the above

<110>a declarative sentence

<111>a declarative sentence

<112>all of the above

<113>noun

<114>compound sentence

<115>complex sentence

<116>complex

<117>an inverted comma

<118>marks the end of a sentence/thought

<119>all of the above

<120>a singular subject agrees with a singular verb

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