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Gmajor:
This is what I call educational poison at its finest.
op has clearly never set eyes on a dictionary before

What do you mean by educational poison? Do you mean these things are not correct? Or the corrected ones do not exist?

Good day everyone! Welcome to Class!

Very quickly today, we shall be looking at some common words or group of words we use in our everyday conversations that are actually not correct or are not found in the Standard English Language.

Please learn



Do you know there is nothing like:

This month is your month of divine upliftment?

Why? - there is no such word like upliftment in the English language. We coined it for ourselves. What exists in the standard English language is uplift or uplifting.

So, you should say:

✅This month is your month of divine uplift or divine uplifting


*My sister's husband is just a Godsent to this family?*

Why? - you cannot find such word as Godsent in the English language dictionary. You can use the two words separately in a sentence, as in:

God has sent my sister's husband to us in this family

Now, the correct word to use is *Godsend* which means[i] a good thing that happens unexpectedly and helps somebody or something when they need it[/i]. So the sentence should be corrected as:

✅My sister's husband is a Godsend to this family




*I don't like making friends with gossipers?*

Why? - the word _gossipper[/i]_ is alien to the English language. We Nigerians coined it for ourselves. The right word is _gossip_ which can be used as a noun and as a verb, such as:

✅ I don't like making friends with gossips. (as a noun)

✅I don't like the way she gossips around. (as a verb)



*My younger brother is now a matured man?*♂

Why? - there are just two ways to using the word [i]_mature_, one, as a verb and two as an adjective.

When used as a verb, it takes "-ed" in the past tense form but will not take a noun immediately after it, as in:

✅[b[b]]*My younger brother has grown so matured now* or *My younger brother is matured enough now*[/b]
[/b]
When used as an adjective, we describes a noun and thus should not take the "-ed" form, as in:

✅*My younger brother is now a mature man*_



� *I don't really like people with k-leg?*

Why? - what exists in the standard English is _knock - kneeled_ (Are you trying to laugh?)

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Tayo and Vanessa
will find themselves again after 3
decades and a lifetime of events that will see their families ripped
apart and a continent’s promise
of a golden independence broken. In Dependence is described as a
love story. But it is more than
that. It tracesthe trajectory of
Nigeria’s political history; the
military coups, the bad and
treacherous leadership, and its renewed tentative steps towards
democracy. It speaks to the
demise (in the 1980s) of Nigeria’s
international.reputation and the
country’s rapidly destabilizing
reality. It looks at the poor whose situation never improved but
actually worsened. Using events
in Tayo’s life, it. describes the
effects of misrule on the
country’s universities and the
ensuing massive brain drain that Africa experienced in the 1980s.
The author achieves all this with
a voice and an outlook that is
truly authentic and objective. I
loved the scenes in the 1960s.
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Tayo Ajayi prepares to set sail for England where he has been accepted into Oxford University on a scholarship. Nigeria and Africa are abuzz with independence fervor. The continent is also at the beginning of its journey towards an expected bright and self- determined future. In Oxford, Tayo joins other young students, African and British, who talk about the Civil Rights Movement, the cultural and sexual revolutions, and about apartheid in South Africa. Malcolm X visits his college. It’s a rarefied world of the future leaders and intellectuals of Africa and the children of the old World order and the British Empire. Tayo meets and falls in love with Vanessa Richardson, British colonial officer’s daughter. And they negotiate their relationship against a background of race and racism. Most notably, Vanessa’s father openly discourages any talk of marriage, implying that Tayo is not a suitable match for his daughter. Tayo also worries whether his family back in Nigeria will accept Vanessa. The couple’s relationship hits a stumbling block when Tayo is recalled to Nigeria to attend to his sick father.

There are quite a number of women in his
life that he hurts.
Vanessa, on the other hand,
dreams of being a journalist
writing on African issues,
marrying Tayo and moving with him to Nigeria to start a new life.
Unfortunately life gets in the way
and a host of things prevent most
of her dreams from coming true.
She does end up living one of her
dreams - being a world renowned journalist on African issues. Tayo and Vanessa end up living
their lives independent of each
other but no matter what they did,
and where they were, the
thoughts and love they had for
each other lingered on (even though the other didn't
necessarily know). I guess love
really does stand the test of time.

In Dependence tells the story of
Tayo Ajayi, a Nigerian man who
gets a scholarship to study at
Oxford in the 1960s, and
Vanessa Richardson, the
daughter of an ex-colonial officer. While it is a story of their love
which spans from 1963 to 1998,
it's way more than that. It's also a
story about Nigeria, its
independence and the changes
that occur in the country post- independence - the Biafran war,
the first coup and the numerous
countercoups, military
dictatorships, the brief return to
civilian rule, exile of Nigerians,
and towards the end of the book the eventual return to democracy.
There are also issues of race,
racism and cultural differences.
We see Tayo, Vanessa, as well
as a host of other characters, live
their lives amidst all these issues. Tayo is an intelligent man but he
always seems to do wrong. He
tries to do the right thing, never
wants to hurt anyone but in the
end he does, especially the
women in his life -
[TO BE CONTINUED]

Idioms have at least two elements even as we have in Chemistry. These two elements combine to form a compound. Two parts are compared to bring out the meaning of an idiom.
Idiom uses the following level of comparisons:
1. METAPHORS, which is comparing something with another sharply or directly as in:
[centre]There are some bad eggs in the police[/centre]
In this expression, you can see the sharp comparison made here. (You can imagine how bad eggs smell)

There are other examples like
[centre]a. The story is a parrot's cry. (parrots are known for their undue alarm)[/centre].

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NAME, they say
creates your presence. Pointing out that you really
exist.Your records,degrees, achievement, all
bear your name.

Then, you do some
great work with people interacting with you.They get to know you, respect you, and at times envy your great works. They tell other people about you
and by and large you get some
fame.

Then, your name slowly loses its
importance.

People know you by
face.They recognize you by face but still your name matters because you
never gonna meet every
people.

Surmisely, Fame is built on the basis
of name.

Do you agree? Please leave your comments or add your opinion.

babyfaceafrica:
the last one and maturity is love.....u believe say love dey?

To me, praying fos the person that hates you tells how matured you are and love exist. It's man that has not exercised love the way it should be. Thank you for the observation anyway

babyfaceafrica:
You try..not entirely true..

WHICH OF THEM ARE NOT TRUE?

For so long, I thought maturity is all about growing up, reaching puberty age, having coarse voice and so on, like 18yrs and above. But later, I found out that age is only but a number.
So I went into knowing what MATURITY is all about.
Here are some facts about Maturity:

Here are some facts about Maturity:
@Maturity is when you accept other people the way they are and their level of maturity

@Maturity is when you understand that your ideas are not always the best.

@Maturity is when you learn to let go even if it pains

@Maturity is when you are able to drop expectations from a relationship and give for giving sake

@Maturity is when you understand whatever you do, you do for your own peace.

@Maturity is when you stop proving to the world how intelligent you are.

@Maturity is when you stop comparing with others because life is not a competition.

@Maturity is when you understand that you cant and shouldn't always get what you want every time.

@Maturity is when you are content and satisfied with your life and yet aspiring to be better everyday.

@Maturity is when someone hurt you and you understand their attitude and stay clear than trying to hurt them back.

@Maturity is when you start thinking of other people and not just yourself.

@Maturity is when you know you cant please everyone.

@Maturity is when you see things in different perspective far beyond the way they are.

@Maturity is when you love more and judge less.

@Maturity is Responsibility

@Maturity is Love

@Maturity is the application of wisdom and knowledge

@Maturity is when you accept that your accomplishment, failures, destiny, reputations and almost everything about your life depends on the

@choice you make and not pointing fingers on others. When you are able to make a decision and stand to bear the consequences of your actions.

@Maturity is when you stand on the word of Love and not on the word people say about your relationship or spouse.

@Maturity is when someone hates you and you still pray for them to succeed. -

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Read the official name for Bangkok. It will interest you as you pronounce each of the words. There are 167 letters in all.
Are you ready for it?
Here you go: The official name for Bangkok is: Krungthep Mahanakhon Bavorn Ratanakosin Mahin thrayutthaya Mahadilok pop Nopara tra tchathani Buricorn Udomratchanivetmahasthan Amornpiman Avantarnsathit Sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit

Oh boy! See as the thing come be like say person dey speak in tongues

A Sphinx was a winged monster in Greek's mythology, having a woman's head and a lion's body. This monster is said to have propounded a riddle then, and have killed those who failed to solve it.

Source: Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th Edition

Have you heard of these similes? HOW funny are they to you? Do you agree with everything compared?

¤As ageless as the SUN
¤As bald as an EGG
¤As calm as a CAT
¤As cool as CUCUMBER
¤As devoted as a MOTHER
¤As fat as a BUTTER
¤As free as the WIND
¤As happy as a KING
¤As regular as the CLOCK
¤As mysterious as a SPHINX
¤As ambitious as the DEVIL
¤As right as RAIN
¤As brief as A DREAM

I've got many, but let's argue these first. Which one do you like most?

christaddicted:
How about VENGEANCE abeg?

THANKS FOR THE QUESTION. Vengeance is a punishment suffered by someone else and so we can use it in both cases.
Do you get it sir?

christaddicted:
How about VENGEANCE abeg?

THANKS FOR THE QUESTION. Vengeance is a punishment suffered by someone else and so we can use it in both cases.
Do you get it sir?

WHAT ARE CORRECT WAYS OF SPELLING THESE WORDS?
¤Pronounciation
¤Seprate
¤Reble
¤Decieve
¤Resarvuer
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To Avenge is to take vengeance for or on behalf
of someone. This means when you avenge, you are repaying an evil, harm, wrong or injury on behalf of another person. E.g. Sola vowed to avenge their murdered father.

Revenge on the other hand, means to repay or retaliate an injury or wrong done to oneself. One can only revenge any wrong to one by another person.

SURMISELY, avenge is used when you are clearing or vindicating someone from any wrong done while revenge is used when you are fighting for or vindicating yourself after someone might have injured or done evil to you.

Please, do you get me? Any question or comment?