omonnakoda:

Idiomatic doesn't come into it at all. Using the word in that sentence is incongruous and indicates that you don't know what idiomatic means.
I expecti that is likely to make you get defensive but it is the simple truth.

Just drop " idiomatic" it doesn't have any place in that discussion

omonnakoda:

Sorry but idioms don't have any place in this example.

gr8tone:
I am not confortable with this sentence , "I am having a headache" The use of the article "a" shows that headache is a countable noun. How will it sound if I say I am having headaches? Very weird to me. Though it may be correct, I wouldn't know. Just a local man

Poloyanabo1:
is there any word like staffs?
or it should always be put as staff, no matter how many they're?

placeofallure:


Advice is a noun.
Advise is a verb.

Usage:
*I will advise the FG to hold back on easing lockdown restrictions.

*To ease lockdown measures is an advice the FG is unwilling to consider.

In the first sentence, "advise" is an action the speaker intended to do.
I will dance, I will play, I will run etc.

In the second sentence, "advice" is a noun. The name you give to somebody or something. Something like a suggestion, opinion etc.

I hope this helped.

THONYWHYTE001:


To make it easier, take note of the tone. Advice has a risen tone while advise has a falling tone. Knowing the tone will help you fix it well in a sentence. "open to correction".

Phccareers:
Good one OP. The correct way to have written your title is "Some grammatical mistakes you make and things you say WRONGLY". Pls take note of this for future purposes.

I left there ANGRILY not I left there angry.
He acted RIGHTLY not he acted right.
They did it GOOD.

The above are all adverbs describing the verbs that come before them.

Charles545:


I need your attention please.
:
Agreed, ADVISE is in the verb form but how is ADVICE in the noun form; considering the definition of a NOUN
:
kindly clarify

mhmsadyq:
the verb - to make
The verb – to allow etc.

whenever "to" comes before a verb in a sentence,
the verbal word goes together with the "to" before it.
Such phrase is known as ADJUNCT in English. So in the sentence
This picture makes me TO remember my past.
the verb is "Make" while "TO remember" is an adjunct.
The sentence is also CORRECT.

Alzirida:


Pls can u help me with.

I am
I'm
Am i

By the way

Advices
Furnitures

Are both legitimate English words,they may grate on the ears when used incongruously but they are what they are.

Chukwudi4naija:
I hope this 'helps' is wrong. It's rather, I hope this help. See subjunctive mood.

lonikit:


the explanation of "reply" is wrong. "reply" can be used both transitively and intransitively. so, preposition is not needed when it is transitive. it is correct to say: the teacher replied the student.

Olayinka8793:
My biggest grammatical headache in English remains the correct use of the words : "being" and "been".
Still yet t master those two bastards.

Breakinglimit:
The problems going on in Kano can be summarised into two.
1) Case detection failure.
2) Case management failure.
All of the failures above may not be unconnected to the collapse of the committees of the state task force and that of NCDC. The virus hit hard these two most important pillars in the control of the pandemic. Is like the case of HIV that target and attact the immune system causing systemic collapse and devastating effects until effective drug was obtained.
The current case in Kano is that people are sick and can not know their status due to collapse of testing center(as some of the staff tested positive) and could not have the right care/management as the state Covid committee also collapsed (some key members tested positive).

When the commanders are wounded at the battle field to the extent of affecting their capability in leading the war, we just need to quickly appoint new commanders and move on. If this is not done the enemies may cause further serious damage.
Thus from the above description, the solutions to this problem is for the NCDC and FMoH (commanders in chief) to promptly and massively support Kano by restoring safe and efficient testing centre as well as injecting active and experienced members that may even takeover the state task force leadership until the normalcy is restored. This, if the FG wishes can be actualized within a week in shaa Allah.
May Allah grant quick recovery for those affected and continue to protect all of us ameen summa ameen.

deepwater:
The Bible said I can do ALL things through christ!

ALL things, not 18 healed out of 20!

This is a true definition of a con artist, they are actually not smart people in the real sense. Just that they are many folks who are dumber than them hence they have followers.

You know very well no government would allow you access the isolation ward, so why do you peg the healing of the sick to your presence?

Oga, perform the miracle from house, people dey pay tithe from house and you dey collect


By the way, whosoever allows his tailor sews such a suit for him or her needs proper mental evaluation.

After the COVID 19, something is certain. People would loose faith in pastors and religion. Trust in God would be there. But pastors shareholding value would drop!

This twats (the 5G con artist inclusive) are scavenging to hold on to the the few available gullibles.

abdullkabar:
Laughable post
Like seriously!!!!
Well, this is what our leaders have caused

*_This is one of the most enlightening information I've ever come across on this COVID-19 pandemic.
I don't know the originator but I think he/she deserves an applause.**_ ������

Read on.

� A QUESTION PEOPLE OFTEN ASK �

How/Why Do People Recover If There's Still No Proven Cure For COVID-19?
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� ANSWER :

Most respiratory viruses-- including Corona viruses such as the ones that causes the Common Cold -- are self-limiting, so to say.

What this means is that they have a relatively finite period in the human body before they "wear themselves out," or the immune system contains them, and the sufferer recovers.

Treatment for these viruses is thus mostly aimed at;

1. Relieving symptoms, in order to make the sufferer comfortable.

2. Keeping the infected person alive by supporting organ systems attacked and impaired by the virus.

Most times, treatment is not aimed at curing such viral illnesses, by attacking the virus itself. This is partly because they're self-limiting, and partly because developing antiviral medication is darn difficult due to the fact that they mutate so rapidly, and are more or less like shape shifters. If you develop a treatment against this form today, tomorrow they may mutate into a form resistant to said treatment.

So, the best form of treatment for such viruses is prevention, either by modification of social and lifestyle habits, to break the chain of transmission; or by vaccination.

If someone however becomes infected, treatment, as the immune system slugs it out with the virus, is usually supportive, and not definitive.

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Before we move on to COVID-19, I want to make a distinction and clarification between two forms of treatments- supportive treatment, and definitive treatment.

� DEFINITIVE/SPECIFIC TREATMENT

In the context of infectious diseases, definitive treatment entails treatment targeted specifically at the offending organism, aimed at eliminating it from the body. Once this is done, the body-- through its repair mechanisms, heals itself of the damage already caused by the organism, and the person recovers.

An example is use of antimalarial drugs to treat Malaria, and antibiotics to treat bacterial infections.

� SUPPORTIVE TREATMENT

This, in the context of infectious diseases, is treatment not aimed at eliminating the organism, but relieving its symptoms, and supporting vital bodily functions already compromised by it, while waiting for, or hoping that, the immune system will contain said infection.

So, if the person is having a distressful cough, you may have to give cough syrups to suppress it; if there's fever, you may have to use anti-pyretics, such as paracetamol, to relieve it; if in pain, analgesics may be used generously to make the patient more comfortable; etc.

If the infection compromises the function of certain vital organ systems, and the person is at risk of dying without optimal functioning of said system, you support the organ's function:

- For failing lungs; oxygen, and ventilators, may be needed.

- For cardiovascular collapse; fluids, and vaso-pressors may be given.

- For kidney failure; dialysis may come in handy.

Etc.

By doing these, you may be able to keep the body going, while the immune system wages battle against the offending organism.

If by the time the immune system is able to win the war and contain the infection, you have managed , through your supportive treatment, to keep the person alive, the person recovers.

However, if the damage caused by the organism in its wake is too much, and your supportive treatment couldn't keep the person alive to see the end of the battle between immune system and bug, the person dies.

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� COVID-19

For COVID-19, the "finite" period of battle between immune system and virus is usually between 2 to 6 weeks-- up to 8 weeks in some instances, depending on the competence/resilience of the person's immune system, among other things.

If one is able to withstand the onslaught of the virus within this period, the person would pull through, sometimes without any treatment, other times with supportive treatment, all depending on the severity of the disease.

To put this in context, COVID-19 has 5 clinical variants BASED ON SEVERITY;

1. Asymptomatic Form.

In this form, one gets infected without manifesting any symptom whatsoever. The person thus ends up just as a mere carrier, spreading the infection to others.

2. Mild Disease.

Some people would get the virus, but just have upper respiratory tract infection, with symptoms such as sneezing, mild fever, cough, malaise, etc; and recover rapidly, with or without any supportive treatment.

3. Moderate Disease.

This group would go on to develop lower respiratory tract infection, with pneumonia, and would need some supportive treatment, but may not be sick enough to need oxygen therapy.

4. Severe Disease.

This group develop Pneumonia, and get so sick that they would need oxygen therapy.

5. Critical Disease

This group of patients get so bad, and develop A.R.D.S, and ventilatory respiratory failure, so much that they would need a ventilator to survive, without which they'd definitely die.

� NB

This classification is based solely on the effect of the virus on the respiratory system, its primary target in the body. That however doesn't mean that the virus only affects the lungs.

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The form of the disease one develops depends on a host of factors including;

1. Immune status.

2. Age.

3. Presence of other co-morbidities, such as Diabetes, Hypertension, Heart Disease, Cancer, Chronic Lung Diseases, etc.

.

People with asymptomatic and mild to moderate forms of the disease don't need much help to recover; sometimes they're even advised to stay at home, especially in countries whose Hospitals are already overwhelmed, and are managed with minor conservative/supportive measures to relieve symptoms such as fever, headache, chest pain, and cough.

People with severe and critical forms of the disease would need Hospital admission and a lot of supportive measures, including oxygen therapy, ventilators, anti-shock therapy-- if necessary, and the full compliment of ICU care.

If conservative measures are enough to sustain the person, the person could still pull through even without specific antiviral therapy.

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� CONCLUSION

Hope I've been able to make you understand how recovery is possible, even without a definitive cure.

Now you know.

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Just in case you were wondering, I intentionally didn't want to dabble into the controversies surrounding touted specific antiviral remedies such as the Hydroxychloroquine-Azithromycin combination, Kaletra/Alluvia, Arbidol, etc; because whatever influence they have on prognosis doesn't negate the submissions made here.

josen16322:
i tink am suspectin dose ncdc people from day one becos i dont trust dem at all just look at d numbers of all d discharge patients doesnt rhyme wit numbas of confirm cases and death cases

Lyoncrescent:
Being poor is multidimensional and not limited to food alone and can be analysed different ways. I want to focus on Security, Health, Education and Food Security.

All these things are elitist. (Elitist only in the sense that they are only offered to the elite.)

If you are a VIP or a multimillionaire, just go and see your DPO and he can give you two police men to be following you around. We see it everywhere. The police is poorly trained and poorly paid and has poor investigation mechanism and structures. First role of government is securing life and property but even that they have failed and we are all victims .

If you are a VIP again , you will have access to the best hospitals and not the government rubbish ones . Even some government hospitals have private wards for VIP and rich patients and those ones are treated so highly that you won't believe that it's the same hospital. In a developed nation , health is key but here even the president runs to London when he has a health crisis. Even the middle class is not spared in the poor nature of the health sector.

Education is a tragedy. No one that has a choice will send their children to a public primary school which is the foundation. In developed nations , public primary education is the rule while private primary education is the exception while in Nigeria it is the other way around . However FG will say the school feeding program that gulps 600 million naira daily has been a success and that primary school education is not under the FG ; in other words we can feed them but we can't equip their classrooms or pay their teachers because it's not our job. And the rot is all the way to tertiary level. With the exception of Lagos Business school, no MBA program in Nigeria meets international standards of any of AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB. It's all poor.

Food security is in shambles. Why is it so expensive to transport food from Kano to Lagos ? No one has been able to answer this question. Why are incentives not given to food production and processing companies so that we all benefit one way or the other ? It's beyond me .

Nigeria is a clueless nation . When they came with surep and you win , I said nothing will change and that it will only set a dangerous precedence. Then they came again with npower , trade moni and cash transfer. Yet another misplaced priority. This schemes are supposed to be the icing on the cake; Additional initiatives to a core initiative. However there is little or no cake. Nigeria is spending more on icing than the main cake . We spend so much on helping the poor with tokenism while neglecting the core of Security,Health, Education and Food Security.

At the end of the day, we are all poor including the elites and the rich. We never know when we will be victims of this poor system. When a wayward and poor policeman may out of frustration kill a family relation, when a niece may be rushed to a teaching hospital with pregnancy complications and the doctor on call will be in his own private hospital , when the children we refused to educate will kidnap us and when lack of standards will result to us consuming poisoned beans in our mansions . In the end , being rich and living in a poor system means we are all poor .

This rot is not limited to the Federal Government. State Governors are even worse and if I use Lagos state as a case study, we won't leave here today. God help Nigeria.