Eguria

  MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES BY  EGURIASE S. M. OKAKA   Miscellaneous Studies At least, I added this page of miscellaneous studies to cover other parts of English language, relevant to examination students at all levels. Our miscellaneous studies will take us from Proverbs to similes, from Interrogative pronouns to Participle phrases, from the uses of “All” and “the whole” to the uses of “much” and “many”. and to a passage on Hints and pronunciation for Foreigners and “Shall” and “Will”.   PROVERBS   Proverbs                                                       Meaning   ·         A friend in need is a friend in       ...

    SUMMARY AND COMPREHENSION                                                                                    BY  EGURIASE S. M. OKAKA   SUMMARY “Summary” as used in school certificate examination has specifically, a quite different meaning from it ordinary dictionary meaning.   In school certificate examination, summary questions are proceeded by a question or questions calculated to test the student’s comprehension of the passage, by culture of asking the student to discern and extract the relevant leading ideas of the passage or prose, leaving out everything that is unnecessary, and reducing these major ideas to writing in a number of statements or sentences.   GENERAL RULES FOR WRITING SUMMARY   ·     ...