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mascot87: Na your region Ebola go clear not be SW

By their violent nature you shall know them. We are talking politics he is talking Ebola. It is apparent you are deficient in English. 'Doom' is your problem? Do yourself this favor: Go back to your secondary school and ask for your change, they did a bad job with your English. supporter of APC.

Forget hate, my President is a democrat - ensuring one man one vote.

SMH. Evils. If all these APC-led governments like it, they should be giving free food or spraying money from a chopper, 2015 is the year of their doom in SW! Oshi.

pixietop: \

We(my wife and I) actually BOUGHT our ticket a week before our interview. It doesn't affect your chances with the VO, it just means you have FAITH, a very important element.

Yes. Not even the issue of chances, getting a 'ridiculously' affordable flight is the idea.

Amefrica: Bigfrancis did same!!

Wow! Then, I wasn't being unrealistic with my thoughts. It pays like that.

Just imagined something. Guys, have you ever thought of booking your flight even before your interview? That is the way to go for me. When the time comes, once I get my I-20, I'm most likely gonna book my flight. #MindOfAgod

Walspring: Am back from the Future......

Ehen, tell us what we should expect from this Ebola wahala. And, will I ever be the VC of OAU?

Fadinus, we get talk biko. Wherever u dey, please holla. #TreatAsUrgent

Dear Friends,

How have you been? Sorry I haven't been frequent here, I traveled out of town. How is our preparation going? Remember, don't hesitate to ask questions. God bless you.

By bigfrancis21( m): 12:20pm On Jun 03, 2013

Someone might need this:

TO PROSPECTIVE GRE AND TOEFL TEST TAKERS:

It is no longer a hidden fact that GRE and TOEFL
test takers in Nigeria cannot register for the test
online. Even someone registering on your behalf
from abroad is banned once the test taker would
still be writing in Nigeria.

Well, I have good news for you. Are you aware
that you could still register for the exam by
yourself, fast and at the lower official ETS test
fee? All you need to do is simply call ETS and
register! Its that simple. Just as you can call to
schedule a visa appointment, so can you call to
register for your GRE/TOEFL test! If saving money
is your priority, rather than wasting N50,000
needlessly on GRE agents and enriching their bank
accounts when you could simply do it yourself at
the cheaper official GRE price of $185(N29600) or
at $175(N28,000) for TOEFL, then this option is
best for you.

To register, you'll need the following:
1) Your GRE account login details on the ETS
website. If you don't have an account already,
quickly visit http://www.ets.org/gre to create your
account. For TOEFL, you'll need your TOEFL
account login details on the ETS website. If you
don't have an account already, quickly visit http://
www.ets.org/toefl to create your account.

2) A valid GTB MasterCard. I can't really vouch for
other types of debit cards because I've not used
them before. However, I'm sure of GTB MasterCard
because it never fails to work. Take note of the 16-
digit card number printed on the front of the card,
the expiry date (month and year) also embossed
on the front of the card and lastly, the c.v.v code,
which is the 3-digit code printed on the back of
your ATM card. Have these details handy because
you'll need to provide them to the agent to enable
them make the payment over there for you. Of
course, I need not remind you that you must have
funds of, at least, the registration fee amount in
your account for a successful payment.

After you must have done the above, then you're
ready to go. Call the ETS Registration Center on
+31320239593 . That is the phone number of the
ETS Registration center or Region 9 located in
Netherlands and it is the ETS center, out of the 12
regional registration centers worldwide, in charge of
registering Nigerians for TOEFL and GRE. Once you
call, you'll hear the voice prompt and wait to be
connected to the next available customer agent.
Once you're connected, the agent will ask you for
your login details which will enable him log into
your account and register you over there by
himself.

First, you'll be asked for these details - first name,
middle name, surname, address, date of birth,
phone number, email address, preferred test
center number and test date. Second, comes the
payment stage. At this stage you'll provide the
agent with your ATM card details to enable him/
her key in the data and make the payment himself.
Once successful, you'll be told by the agent and
also receive an email immediately containing your
examination e-ticket.

PS: Be sure to recharge, at least, N750 credit on
your phone as you'll be spending some good
quality time on the call (15-20 minutes).
Please, this is in no way a scam but rather, its one
of the valid means of registering for the GRE or
TOEFL test as you'll see stated on the ETS website:
http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/register/
cbt/ http://www.ets.org/toefl/ibt/register? WT.ac=toeflhome_ibtregister_121127

However, only a few people know about this easy
and cheap means. Two noble members from this
forum registered successfully on Friday and this
morning after telling them about it.
Success.

http://www.ets.org/s/mygre/rrc.html
www.ets.org/s/toefl/pdf/toefl_ibt_rrcs_11-12.pdf

Hope you guys are adjusting. I hope you get enough fun because that camp, arguably, is the toughest camp in the country.

Rapsainot: English has been a lay back in my previous exams....... Just render any help you can...... YOUR HELP WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED

Sorry about that, sir. What are the challenges you seem to be having? I don't want to take a shot in the dark by just rendering any help, sir. Anything you feel you need to know and we are on.

However, when I have the time, I'm still going to give some sorts of 'tricks' to answering questions in O Level English. I just hope I get one past question around me here, because I don't really know what the questions look like again.

Oga Yokiti, God bless you. Sir, saying you that you are one of the finest MODs on Nairaland won't be strange to many of us here. You are a perfect gentleman.

Sir, when you need the help of man, nations will rise to your aid. You shall never know a perfect yesterday. Morning by morning, blessings from yonder are yours.

Dear Prospective Gentlemen Corps Members,

Go and make positive impacts. Service year isn't forever, before you know it, you are done. It's a price we all must pay to the fatherland, be proud of your khaki and crested best whoever you rock it. Carry yourselves with dignity and don't contribute to the woes of Nigeria. Importantly, have fun and be humble. You won't be the first to serve, and you are most likely not going to be the last.

Enjoy the year, for you only serve once. When you get to that daunting stage during the year, let this be your push: I only serve once, amma make it worth it. Add values and don't be too moody not to integrate with the locals. NYSC is for national integration, enjoy it. If you see that Hausa, Igbo, Youruba, Edo, Tiv, etc. babe/guy that suites your taste marry him/her, NYSC go reward you for that. Don't be promiscuous and don't take advantage of your students or people around you. Bliss, friends.

To those of us traveling, journey mercies. No power of darkness will overpower that of light in you, never! None of you here shall be mourned. Wherever you are coming from or going, Christ will go before you.

A o ni sile te oo... Ire oooooo.

Footlocker: Please those of you who had made purchases once again I thank you!

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I would appreciate your reviews!

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More pics coming!

Smart you, bro. Love your spirit. Enterpreneaurers are gods! Would PM you one of these days.

cumz: great work sir...
really learning.
please can you give us a hint on how to answer summary questions

Summarization is arguably one of the easiest aspects of O Level English. When you are asked to summarize, you are expected to brilliantly reduce the size of a text without losing its meaning. For instance, if I ask you to summarize the Nigeria National Anthem into one one sentence, I'm expecting you to tell me what the anthem is all about.

For me, the summary of our anthem in one sentence would be something like: A call to patriotism.

Importantly, it is good you know that when summarizing, there is no fixed answer to how a summary of a piece should look like. It is a subjective thing. By subjective, I mean that how you summarize a piece could be different from how youe friend will. Just make sure the message is not tampered with.

So, my own summary of our anthem is "A call to patriotism." Someone else could say "A call to serve.", "A call to chilvary.", etc. From these variations, what have you noticed? Patriotism is substituted with other synonymous words. And this brings us to our next point.

Please be informed that synonyms/antonyms/pronouns, deletion, etc. are important tools in summarization. They are used to avoid redundancy or unnecessary repetitions of some words.(This is one of the hallmarks of summarization.) Let us now look at this example:

Tola is a very caring girl. She has a the hearth of an angel, and this is perhaps why people want to share their problem with Tola. Tola is the perfection of beauty and love. Tola has made me understood that we make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.

Assuming you have been told to summarize this into two sentences, the first thing you should do is to look at any repeated word and find a substitute for it. So, first, instead of repeating 'Tola', you can substitute it with a pronoun, (words used instead of a noun).

After that you can ow try to identify the core message of the piece and start your summary. This, for me, would be summarized as:

To is a caring lady.
She is loved by mamh because she cares.

Let me just tell you that the first thing you should do is to understand the passage. This is very important. You can't summarize what you don't know. Once you know what the passage is about, you can now use your own words to summarize without distorting the meaning of the passage.

Let me tell you again, summarization is subjective don't be afraid to be creative when summarizing but you must not deviate or distort meanings.

Hope this helps. Don't hesitate to ask more questions if you are still confused.

***Please, excuse any typo.

cc Pprovost

cumz: great work sir...
really learning.
please can you give us a hint on how to answer summary questions

Sure. I will after service. Pleasant Sunday to you all.

sacrono: the use of 'who' and 'whom'.. pls expatiate

It is important for you to know that they are both pronouns.

'Who' mostly functions as the subject in a sentence. A subject in a sentence is the person or thing that is influencing the verb (or action) in the sentence. It cines before the Predicator (Verb).
Example:
1. Who is there?
S. P. A. (Subject. Predicator. Adverbial.)

'Whom' is used as the object of a verb. It cones after the Predicator (verb). An Object is like the receiver of an action and some prepositions like to, by, for, etc. are used occasionally with 'whom'.

Examples:
2. To whom | was | it |given?
O. P. S. P.

The example above can be rephrased to be:

a. It |was given |to whom?
S. P. O.
b. It | was given| to Ali.
S. P. O.
c. It | was given| him.
S. P. O.

Here is a trick, if you see a question and you can answer it with 'him' or 'her' use whom and if you can answer with s/he, use who. Look at these:

3. To [who/whom] shall we give?
Our answer here can be him/her, hence 'whom'. If you also notice it, you will see that the question starts with a preposition. Isn't it?

4. [Who/whom] saw the snake?
Here, we can say s/he and not 'him' or 'her'.
a. S/he saw the snake. So the best option is 'who'.

Hope this is understood. If still confused, let me know.

I won't feel it is superstitious to believe in it. The whole idea behind the whole belief is for one not to inflict pain on the elderly ones. The whole idea is to be respectful when dealing with the aged.

For me, I believe one should also be kind to and respect those we are older than. Some pikins dey if them swear for you...

Pprovost: Bro you must be a very nice man to stay awake this late so that you can answer our questions... May people always leave their comfort zone to favour you in Jesus' name....Good night sir

Amen, sir. God bless you.

Pprovost: Thanks sir
probably we can assume that 'been' always go with have, has and had while 'being' goes with is, are, were etc

Exactly, you get it. I won't mind taking you deeper into English verb forms but since I don't know what you have been thought before. God's best.

Footlocker: living and maintaining! Trying make a billion before 30! How's the service going! How your control for that side! Anytime I land Keffi! Na Minki suites direct o

Service year is fine. Mapping out how to become a policy maker in the country before 30. I should be in Keffi one of these days, by His grace.

emsheddy: winning platton kor? Lol! Una been dey disturb us wella nah. your platoon president is my good friend up till today, we even saw ourselves yesterday at clearance. Do u knw dat guy in camp that was given automatic posting by DG?

Shadrach. Oga go sleep jo.

Footlocker: Me and the guy just talk for phone now!he say him been day aso rock! But he just land keffi camp now! Na correct man! I tell am say my people dey show! Make him no dull!

It seems almost all the 177 Guards battalion got posted to Villa immediately we left camp. I get one of them who told me the same thing. How have you been bro?

Rapsainot: where to use "been" & being?...... Thanks in advance

To understand this, what we use to determine the tense of verb in a sentence is to check if the action is completed. Usually, a past or perfect verb form denotes a completed action or a state or habitual action which began in the past.

So to your question, both words are participles of verb 'be'. 'Been' (be+ed) is the past participle, while 'being' (be+ing) is the present. Primarily, 'been' + have/has/had is used to tell of a 'state' or experience of a place or something. Consider the examples below:

1. State

I have been good.
They have been phenomenal.

2. Experience of a Place or Something

I have been to Ghana.
They have been to Kenya.
She has been to Sambisa.
The strike had been called off.

Please note that the examples above are in different perfect tenses which I would t want to bore you about.

'Being' on the other hand is the present participle that can be used in the continues/progressive or present tense or passive voice. You also use it to basically express a state. Consider these:

1. She is being kind.
2. They are being silly.
3. They were being intimidated. Example three is not a perfect tense because it indicates a continuous action in the past. We don't know if it was a completed action. It's quite different from this:
4. They were intimidated. (Past perfect tense)

Simply put, 'been' is past; 'being' is continuous. One important thing in grammar is to read beautiful literary texts for one's development.

I hope it helps. If you have more questions or confused still, do let me know.

NB: Pls, excuse all typos - if any.

I'm a graduate of English. If you have any question in English Language or Literature-in-English , endeavor to beckon (mention) on me. Best wishes as you prepare.

Footlocker: When your all getting bullied by this man in camp! You'll remember footlocker showed you him 1st! .

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# he'd rather fight boko than camp duties

The man wey they blow bugle! He no dey miss time. Highly time conscious. Very pleasant soldier. Highly disciplined and friendly. I doubt if they post same soldiers to same camp consecutively sha o.

You people should come and have a taste of the taste. As at the time I'm typing this, it is very peaceful. No need to cry or be afraid. At least if they post you to either Akwanga, Lafia, Karu or Keffi, you should be happy. Anything outside those you can cry a bit sha o . Best wishes friends.

ebdib: @godG
It's cool
Guys don't fight.
We disagree, shake hands and become better friends.
Good luck in your applications.

@joenice Ur a gr8 guy. Cheers

And I just followed ebdib. All the best, brother.

Genea: no its not

Then what are you doing on NL? You should be in a Catholic Novitiate.

Genea: lol iffa catch u

Isn't it true? Pleasant afternoon.

Joenice: @ebdib and godG, please no need to fight here. He's right and you're right too. We're just like one family trying to help each other or one another. Please Ebdib, do not be upset.

Thanks, sir! God bless. I actually have nothing against him just that his statement was to general. Sir ebdib, don't be offended o. But please, desist from hasty generalization when making a point. Sorry. Pleasant afternoon.

ebdib: Dude. Stay out of my mentions
I said solid school /program

At least read what you quoted.

We are saying the same thing, sir. Your "Dude. Stay out of my mentions." asserts one fact: you are proud to a fault. As you can see, I'm not the only one curious to know if Boston University is no more a "solid" school. You bleeped by what you said and now you are getting emotional. One needs the patience of Job to make people like you learn the art of humility. Poor boy!

ebdib: Whoever you are

I won't even engage you since apparently, you think a solid school/program would waive Gre for grad students. That alone makes this conversation over.

To each his own

LOL. Oga, no b fight. Why not enlighten us instead of choosing not to engage me. That is mediocrity. I hate it when people fail to argue as intellectuals. I'm an advocate of peace and I'm not in anyway forcing my opinion on you, bro.

But wait o Mr ebdib, so Boston University is not a "solid" school again? Thank God you informed us!

Thank God say we ma sef sabi read for naija...