English Language Study Materials

GST 111: Communication in English

Teaching Philosophy. I will adopt experiential learning strategy. Experiential learningis based on the humanistic psychology, stressing that knowledge and feelings areinevitable in the learning process, learner-centred lesson, lessons and activities shouldfocus on all the students and their intellect, need and feelings, learning takes placethrough engaging, interactive and memorable activities, experience plays a key role inlearning and learning takes places when learner able to create knowle...

LIS 211: Learning and Communication Skills

Presentation Schedule The presentation schedule gives you the important dates for the completion of your computer-based tests, participation in forum discussions and at facilitation. Remember, you are to submit all your assignments at the appropriate time. You should guide against delays and plagiarisms in your work. Plagiarism is a criminal offence in academics and liable to heavy penalty. Assessment There are two main forms of assessments in this course that will be scored: The Continuous A...

GNS 102 (use of English)

THE MORPHEME WORD PHRASE/GROUP CLAUSE SENTENCE STRUCTURAL TYPES OF SENTENCES FUNCTIONAL TYPES OF SENTENCES WRITING TECHNIQUES THE WRITING PROCESS PRE-WRITING ACTIVITIES WRITING STAGE POST-WRITING ACTIVITIES  DICTIONARY AND THE WORD THE CORRECT USAGE OF MODAL VERBS TENSE AND ASPECT PRINCIPLES OF WORD FORMATION COMMON GRAMMAR MISTAKES IN ENGLISH  Common Rules of Concord

100 Examples of Common Collective Nouns

Nouns are words that refer to people, places, things, events or ideas. Nouns can be used as a subject, a direct object, and an indirect object of a verb; as an object of a preposition; and as an adverb or adjective in sentences. Nouns can also show possession. This note looks at all the types of nouns and over 100 examples of most commonly used collective nouns, including collective nouns used for people and professions.

English Syntax: Modal Auxiliary 'Shall'

ABSTRACT This paper succinctly discusses the modal auxiliary verb, ‘shall’, in relation to other modal auxiliaries. ‘Shall’ is treated both from the semantic and syntactic perspectives. In other words, the subject is examined along the purview of meaning relations and structural arrangements.