Rapmoney:
If you go through the second page of the thread, you will see where I corrected that. I mean the issue of 'asking after' and 'asking of'. I clearly stated it that it was a typo error! Thanks all the same.

Rapmoney:
You are the person who goofed because you read without understanding! Some of you just like rushing into conclusion without understanding!!! Didn't you check the context in which the word was used? You just revealed how quick you are to conclude without doing a thorough ground work...you were trying to gain unnecessary recognition so that peeps here would say you have done well! See how shallow ur reasoning now look?

eDoc:


i am hearing you (continuous)

i can hear you(present)

pweetychyka:


Yea u ryt!

Wat I meant was dat most ppl don't know how to differentiate dem n know which to use at a particular occurrence

freecocoa:
I don't see how your post explains anything.

What has mathematics got to do with it?

Is literature in english not under general english? Separate both let me see.

And are you really bringing up form of controlled languages which are aimed to aid non english speakers?

eDoc:


Follow what i quoted,someone asked which is general english again,hence my explaination.

Gaddafithe2nd:
wetin do Don Jazzy? Na your brother. Lol...

Gaddafithe2nd:
wetin do Don Jazzy? Na your brother. Lol...

Gaddafithe2nd:
I made mistake. It should be 'object'. Thanks for the correction.

Gaddafithe2nd:
You are right."I" is used for the subject while, "me" is is used as an object

Gaddafithe2nd:
My own be say me I know kuku understand English language. I just know say we have Standard English and Nigerian English.
I still dey talk am nobody for this our obodo Nigeria fit talk say him be master for standard English, everybody just dey try.
Haha.... Even part of speech you know fit understand am finish. Under verb alone we have different kind of verbs.
Abeg, me na calculation I sabi.

DeeTus:
Moreso, when you need a cool chick, once you speak a lovely English, she's all yours.

chikis:
Eno dey always work like that ooh...

Rapmoney:
I know even educated people commit grammatical blunders sometimes but there are grammatical blunders that are just so outrageous and shameful at the same time, when they come right out of the mouths of supposed 'graduates' from tertiary institutions!

If you have been guilty of the following as regard spoken English, then you have clearly moved from being a 'Half-baked' graduate to a 'Quarter-baked' graduate!!!

1) 'You are smarting'...I heard a guy at a plaza who claimed to be a graduate saying this! Gush! Being smart is very different from being fast or slick. By the way, there's no verb such as 'smarting' in English language which means the same thing as what this young man was trying to say!

2) 'You are showing yourself'...just like the one above, how can someone be 'showing' himself/herself? So human being don turn movie? Na wa o!

3) 'Oya, come and go'...two opposite verbs. You are telling the person to come and at the same time, to go! Again, what's the meaning of 'Oya'?

4) 'My body is scratching me'...your body can only itch you and not scratch. You scratch when you use your fingers to stroke a surface roughly! Lol!

5) 'My phone is 'more' better than yours...this sentence can surely make you appear a 'quarter-bakie' You can't use two comparative adjectives in a sentence! We have good, better, best. When you compare two things, the middle one which is 'better' should be used so there's no need for 'more' which is also a comparative adjective but goes with 'than'. As in 'more than'

6) 'Did she went to the market'?...as absurd as this sentence is, I have seen many 'graduates' saying it! Two verbs with past tense form in the same sentence?

7) 'Ola, something is smelling. Can you hear it...ehen!!! 'HEAR'? English!!!

8. 'People has' or 'she have'...'has' is a singular auxiliary verb that goes with a singular subject while 'have' is a plural auxiliary verb that goes with a plural subject.

9) 'They takes people for granted'...this one is common on NL. A plural subject does not go with a singular verb and vice versa. 'Take' is plural and 'takes' is singular which goes with a singular subject as well. Take note of 'They' being a plural subject.

10) 'I am looking for Funmilayo'...you can't be looking for someone. Instead, say 'I am asking of Funmilayo'. You can only look for what is lost! It happens regularly when people go to check on others. We can only start looking for Funmilayo if she is declared missing!

I hope these help! We are all learning. It is only a foolish man that takes offence when he is corrected!

Good day!!!

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