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Thankz MOD

hakunajay: i suggest they should do so with their degree certificates too ...

this has already invalidate any certificate they got with the result,so they need to start from the scratch...hope they are not working with any of the certificates too?

MOD,plz how can I know d e-mail I used during registeration on Nairaland because I'm having PMs and I've checked all my functioning e-mail but I can't find it there,so may be I used another e-mail which I can't recall yet

Gbogbolet: add and drop form is out.. 1015 naira.... guys longest time.... i still remain gbogbolet

thank you so much,this is for me!

To those that are offering GNS 111 and GNS 211,please wc textbooks are you using because the 1 I collected are:The use of English in higher education,effective communication in higher education(the use of library) and general studies in the humanities(topical issues).My problem on these textbooks is that I dont know d 1 for 100 and 200 level and the 1 for 1st and 2nd semester,plz somebody should clarify all these to me asap.tanx

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Plz I need serious xplanation on add/drop,sumbody shld guide me abeg.How wil I drop say SLY 111 and CSC 112 and add GNS111 and GNS212?

slap1: It is correct. Present continuous tense. It means that our parents have not stopped saying it. If you replace the verb 'say' with a verb phrase, it will be: ''Our parents have been saying. . .'' That shows you that the action of saying that thing is still in progress.

If the verb is in the past tense (said), it means that our parents said it before, in the past; but they don't say it again. In this case, the verb phrase would be: have said. . .

So the reason for using 'say' instead of 'said' is because 'say' shows that our parents are still saying it, while 'said' shows that they no longer say it. Do you get it now?

thanks for your explanation,that 'have been saying' clarified it and I got it perfectly,THANK YOU ALL FOR CONTRIBUTING ESPECIALLY BUKATYNE

bukatyne: Oh, I see

Our parents say... it means it is a continuous saying... they are still saying it i.e. like a proverb/constant e.g. the sun sets in the west. we can't say it 'setted' because it is a contact and will happen for ever

'Our parents say' and 'our parents said' are both correct. it depends on the context.

I understand you better but I'm not convinced,I'm not saying the statement is wrong because I know my limit in English Language but I want to know the reason for using 'say' instead of 'said'

bukatyne: Above is the OP



You did not ask the antonym of preserve, you asked if a statement is wrong.

I believe the question has options, post them and let's see

I am not interested in the answer,I just want to know if the first part of the statement-our parents say...,is correct or not because it was in the question like that

bukatyne: I believe the candidate should have chosen if it was to be a direct/indirect speech

It could be

1. Our parents said 'they have tried very hard to preserve our cultural heritage'

or

2. Our parents said that they have tried very hard to preserve our cultural heritage


The 'tried very hard' part is another story altogether

I got you right but the question is not about direct or indirect speech,the whole question goes thus:Our parents say that they have tried very hard to preserve(underlined) our cultural heritage but that we have done everything to____it.So the antonym of preserve is the answer

Elliotwiz1: i think it should be #our parents say they have tried very hard to......

OK but my thought was that it should be 'said' and not 'say'

Our parents say that they have tried very hard to preserve our cultural heritage
culled from NABTEB NOV/DEC 2012 ENGLISH LANG PAPER 1 no 29

Plz any Civil 300 level returning student should drop his or contacts,I need one ASAP

Dekins88: Hey bros,
I knew how though that decision is. Well, what worth doing worth doing well, i would advise you to go and get your degree once and for all, all because of the so called discrimination in our Nigeria Labour market, though some people would be advising you not to waste another four years but don't mind them, i believe you would laugh longest.
Congratulations on your admission to the beta by far university, the school academic calendar is one of the best calendar in Nigeria university system.
Best of luck in the persuit.

thanks Man,this is d decision I made while serving and I thank God I got d admissn,d HOD and the Dean of my department av endorsed my 300 level move,so it is only d admissn committee i'm waiting for,looking forward to 2015 to finish my program

This is funny,lol....do they think we ar talking about 5 million here? How much will they realize after turning themselves to modernize beggers and besides,to me this is egocentrical

Yah Allah,I beseech you to do wonders in my life too,ALLAHU AKBAR!

Plz I av an issue and I need your advice ryt now,I'm a D.E applicant wit HND but I wz admitted into 200l which is contradictory to my expectation-300l at UNILORIN,plz wot is d best way to go about it coz 4 yrz no b moi moi o

I accidentally boarded the same taxi with some of those old unkempt women going to the place and the question that came to my mind was didn't these people have children? because the way old people think at times ehn,you wil quickly notice that they need guidiance,so to me,I put the blame on their children...

May Almighty Allah guides us

Definitely u ar a thief bcoz nobody cn ask such question if not thieves

Y cnt u do it lyk dis,tell us d best package u use on each network and d codes for migrating into each bcoz I use all d network either n I'm avin 1 sim android fone,1 sim java fone n 2 sims non-browsing fone

Thanks and God bless u for this