₦airaland Forum

Conner44:
So in essence what are you trying to teach us today?

If you carry a plate of pepper that’s dried and put through a machine/mortar/stone and show me I will call it ground pepper

But

When you give me the plate of fresh pepper and tell me to go and grind it I will know you need me to take it to the machine/mortar/stone.

Simple

You are correct. I am just saying that the past participle of cooking verbs can be used to modify or describe nouns. Usually, only adjectives describe or modify nouns, verbs don't. But you can use the past participle of cooking verbs as "adjectives" to describe nouns.

Conner44:
grind is a verb

While

ground is an adjective

Simple

ground[/] is also the simple past and past participle of [b]grind, and the past participle of verbs of cooking can be used as adjectives.

Good one.

Highorbit7O16:
R u OK? Who asked u question

Oh, you believe it is"ground pepper"?

Do you have any reason to back up your answer?

Jman06:
Grinded is the past tense of the verb grind. But the appropriate name for the powdery mass formed after grinding is ground pepper.

"Grinded" is NOT the past tense of the verb "grind".

Watch the video for a detailed explanation. There is a grammatical explanation that makes perfect sense. Watch the video.

Highorbit7O16:
Grounded pepper

Nope, sir. You are wrong.

Watch the video

akoraye:
Granulated pepper

Haaaaaaaa! Granulated pepper?

Bros

Can we say granulated pepper? I thought it's granulated sugar

Jman06:
It is ground pepper, not grinded.

Why is it ground pepper?

You didn't give a grammatical explanation.

Hey guys!

I have a quick question for you all.

Is it "grinded pepper" or "ground pepper"?

What is/are your reasons for choosing either of this these?

There is a grammatical explanation for the correct answer. I made a video explaining this. Feel free to drop a comment. I'd love to hear from you. Cheers!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgpvTUfiBqM

josh123:
Nigeria do not stand a chance to host the world cup... The only african countries are SA, Egypt, morocco, Ethiopia and rewanda...the rest na wash

Take Ethiopia out of this list. The country is in a bitter civil war. Rebels might target football fans and tourists to embarrass the government.

Yeah, we should maintain our tolerance while they kill us like chickens.

NaijaRoyalty:
Una super tucanno don run down abi

Useless people in government

Are they even using the super tucanno or they just parked it somewhere. I thought they said the aircraft would turn the tide against bandits and terrorists.

I am tired of this country. A select few are benefitting from this insurgency they don't want it to stop.

The same govt that tracked down Nnamdi Kanu, abducted him and brought him back to Nigeria can't seem to find terrorist hiding in plain sights.

nijaomegacode:
I was hoping you tell me about how they use the toilet, eat, drink, sleep etc.
Not this death assumption.

How they use the toilet? They use the toilet standing in their heads

siofra:
It's not because we don't like the truth but it's insulting especially when you say it like that.

What is the point of telling her that she has a big nose? If someone has a deformity or a flaw in their body and you remind the person of their deformity or flaw, what exactly do you hope to achieve.

We are supposed to make the ones we love feel good about themselves not make them feel inadequate or small.

sojiboy:
*APC Muslim-Muslim ticket: Fayemi Urges CAN to evolve a charter of demands for political leaders*



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So prompt payment of workers' salary is now an achievement?

Vulturereloaded:
Tinubu must see Nigerians as fools.

Your party campaigned with all this 8 years ago.

If you are campaigning with the same, then it means your party failed.

We don't reward failure.


We say NO to drugs.

We say NO to a UK based president.

We will not spend 8 years changing Tinubu's Diapers.

The real change is here.

I really wonder what these guys take us for. So he knows what to do to lift Nigerians out of poverty and he hasn't shared the secret with Buhari.

These guys don't rate us. If he wins, he won't deliver. He will start blaming 16 years of PDP rule.

I want to leave this country. I am tired. In a sane country, the candidate of the ruling party that has performed terribly won't even be among the top 10.

ajekpaks:
I remember entering their trap in Lagos... omo they nearly tied me down with rope just to keep me there...

the idiot telling me about firing my boss and becoming a boss of myself claims to be in level 4, but even a jobless me then looked better and dressed better...

after challenging him he began to threaten me... it almost became violent, and seeing they outnumbered me I just had to calm down and take their bullshut until I left

When you attend their seminars and you don't cooperate with them, they might get violent.

I attended an interview for a 60k job, but it turned out to be a neo-life seminar. After the boring seminar, one guy called director tried to pressurize me into making a financial commitment, but I was adamant. I told him I only had my transport fare.

Before the seminar started, I had met a guy and we clicked. We talked about starting up something together. I made the mistake of not asking for his number. After the so-called director tried to extort money from me and I refused, he got visibly upset. As I got up to enter the hall, he shouted at me and told me to leave the premises. I told him I wanted to collect one of the participants' phone number. The look he gave ehn, no one told me to run out of the gate

AndroBlaze:
You are shooting yourself in the foot with that argument; if they can Anglicise our words freely ( i.e. killing the meanings by pronouncing it wrongly) then every Nigerian should be allowed to Nigerianise (or Africanise) their words, which me and you agree we shouldn't do with bad pronunciations, unless backed up with meaingful history.

Instead of the English being lazy and calling him "Deli' (which means something entirely different in their language), they could easily be thought to pronounce it "Daylay" which at least would still give a semblance of the Yoruba meaning.

Anyway the research of Tsetse is freely available and my advice to you is before you put African words in your English lessons, you owe it to all of us as proud Africans to do research and just not repeat the "dictionary" pronunciation. Please see etymology.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsetse_fly#:~:text=13%20External%20links-,Etymology,rendered%20in%20other%20African%20languages

But again, you did well overall, this is just advice to go deeper into what you teach.

Thanks for your advice. It is duly noted.

AndroBlaze:
He tried, but speaking English as an African means you should be confident in correcting the English when they get it wrong, especially when it comes to African words with African orgins.

Tsetse is a Bantu word and the way we call it in Nigeria is far closer to the correct pronunciation than the English one he called.

No white man will teach me how to pronounce "Dele" as I can see how they have struggled with simple Dele Alli's name for years.

What if the English man anglicizes "Dele" and puts the anglicized pronunciation in the dictionary? It means everyone learning English, whether they are in India, China, Malaysia, etc would have to use the anglicized pronunciation of Dele, not the Yoruba pronunciation.

Besides I have never heard a Bantu person say the word "tsetse fly" so I wouldn't know if the phonetic transcription of the word in the dictionary is different from the way a Bantu person would say it.

I appreciate your contribution bro.

1Sharon:
*studied

This is the 13th meaning of "read" in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 10th Edition.

SUBJECT AT UNIVERSITY 13 [T, I] (BrE, rather old-fashioned) to study a subject, especially at a university e.g. I read English at Oxford.

"My cousin read nursing" is a grammatically correct sentence.

It's rather old-fashioned but it's still correct.

You are not wrong either. ''Studied" can be used in place of read.

1Sharon:
Obviously. Shawarma itself is an Arab dish.

I didn't know this. Thanks for telling me.

kingPhidel:
After you pronounce them finish how much den credit you ? I come in peace sha

Subscribe to my channel ok

Skyview01:
Not me. I can pronounce all of the above correctly.

That's good bro

nams77:
Good one bro
Keep up the good work. Tnx

I will, thanks.

nijaomegacode:
Sit down there deyspeak English. People that are making money can't even pronounce people without saying fiful.

You are assuming that business people are not educated and do not speak good English. I have nothing to say about this.

ZACHIE:
Jollof is of West African origin. Actually, wallof.

The guy should breathe more life into his youtube. I didn't watch the presentation.

Breathe more life? I am not hosting BBNaija or a beauty pageant. I make videos with my phone and edit it with an app used for Tiktok videos. I don't have the resources to make a professional video or pay a professional video editor.

You are the only one who has said something negative and I am not bothered.

Akoi grace

This guy still doesn't understand the people he is messing with. They are hungry for power and will do anything to silence anyone that tries to make them lose this election.

He should just stick with his APC. He collected money from them and campaigned for them. I don't want to hear justice for Portable.

GraceUnIimitedd:
i have a British pronunciation app I've been using for years now

That's good.

GraceUnIimitedd:
I got all correct

Wow! You are really good. Thumbs up.

Antimarraige:
I can pronunce them well I'm good at oral English, just speaking for the Iya alatas and the baba elerans , etc

Ok bro.

MadeINchenzen2:
In your own interest, do short time and let the babe go. You wan carry ashawo daybreak abii? You want her to come to your house and spend the night with you right?

The question is... do you know who she is
Some guys have learnt a bitter lesson paying hookers for a night.

4 things can possibly happen.

1. You may get lucky, she just dress-up and go at dawn.

2. She might be a mole, sent to spy on you.

3.she might run away with something that belongs to you. Eg. Your genitals or your life, your phone, money, PS5 or your clothes.

4. If she's fetish and diabolic, she might take some of your pubic hairs or semen.

Note: If she's aggrieved with you in anyway, she may signal some of her loyal notorious customers to trace you to your house and pounce on you. Especially men who will not pay her the agreed cash for service rendered

So in your best interest... stay awake, do not sleep

Just get married if you can afford it. Stop having sex with random women. Some of these ladies are destiny destroyers. When you have sex with them, your destiny is ruined.

seanwilliam:
Wow. very nice

Thanks a lot bro