Comprehension: Reading Skill Unit 9: Entertainment
Content
Reading for Pleasure
Explanation
The passage is about a renowned Nigerian artiste’Onyeka Onwenu’. She is known for so many things a ‘grande dame’ of Nigerian music, broadcaster, signer, and award winning film actress, also known as a politician. The article in the passage portrays her qualities and her ability to win over an audience.
EVALUATION
Answer the questions under the passage.
READING ASSIGNMENT
Effective English pag 147 – 148 (Entertainment Vocabularies )
B: Structure : Sentence Structure and Formation
Content: Types of Sentences According to Structure
Elements of Sentence Structure.
The types of sentence according to structure:
(a) Simple sentence: This contains only one clause e.g
Tope did not attend the party last night.
(b) The compound sentence : This contains two main clauses linked by a co-ordaining conjunction like ‘and’ ‘but’ ‘or.
Obi promised to visit us but he failed to do so
( c) The multiple sentence: This contains more than two main clauses linked by co-ordinating conjunctions. Like:
He may do the work himself or he may ask somebody else to do it for him, but I want the wok to be done.
(d) The complex sentence: This contains one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses.
We bought the book/ which he recommended. ( one main clause and one subordinate clause)
(e) The Compound Sentence: This contains more than one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses.
Adamu came in the morning/ and told us/ that he was successful in the examination/ but that his scores were low.
The Elements of Sentences
Structure:
Apart from dividing a sentence into subject and predicate, a sentence may be said to possess five units or elements: subjects, verb, object, complement and adjunct (adverbial)
Element Abbreviation
A subject s
b. verb v
c. object o
d. complement c
e. adjunct(adverbial) A.
Examples.
S v o A
i. The policeman bought a new pistol last week
s v c
ii. the girls were speechless
The subject points to the person or things the sentence is about, i.e who or what is being discussed.
b. Predicate: This is the second basic part of a sentence, which indicates what is said about the person or thing. The predicate includes the verb, auxiliaries, adverbs and adjectives which say something about the subject e.g /P/
they suffered
C objects
We have direct and indirect object
Direct Object
Children play games
I played the piano
Indirect Obejcts
He buys me lovely shoes
Sarah gave her cat a bath
Me and her cat are indirect objects
Shoes and a bath are indirect objects
The indirect objects comes before the direct objects.
D. Complements: There are two types of complements subjects and object complements.
Subject of subject complement: the girl is kind
Ngozi is a teacher
Kind and a teacher are subjective complements.
Object or Objective Complement : The students made Samuel a Coach
The called Joseph a mad man
C. Adjunct (Adverbial ) : This is a word or group of words that acts as an adverb in a sentence. It modifies a verb. It may be adverbial phrase, a prepositional phrase or a noun phrase.
The girl is in the room
The goat is behind the door
The seven basic simple sentence pattern:
1. The girl laughed S. V
2. Children play games SVO
3. Tope is a lawyer SVC
4. I gave Ife the book SVOO
5. She Considered him a foo SVOl
6. She is in the toilet SVA
7. I placed the cup on the table SVOA.
EVALUATION
Write five sentences and analyse the sentence elements in them.
C. Spelling Dropping ‘e’ and retaining ‘e’
Content;Words where ‘e’ drops
Words where ‘e’ is retained
Words where ‘e’ is dropped
1. In adjective ending in le, drop the en and add ‘y’ to form adverbs e.g
able ably
agreeable agreeably
ample amply
humble humbly
Words like fulfill and skilful, have a single l in the middle but double the final as in fulfilled and skillfully.
2. In words ending in a silent e,
(a) drop the ‘e’ before suffixes, beginning with a vowel, but
(b) retain the ‘e’ before suffixes that begin with a consonant e.g. (a) suffixes beginning a vowel
continue continuous
(ous begins with ‘o’ a – vowel; so ‘e’ is dropped before ‘o’
live living
shine shining
write wiring
e.g. (b0 suffixes beginning with a consonant continue – continued ‘d’ is a consonant; so ‘e’ is kept before ‘d’
live lived move movement love loved.
3. The final ‘e’ is dropped in the following e.g.
abridged abridgment
acknowledge acknowledgement
argue argument
judge judgment
lodge lodgment.
Words where ‘e’ is retained
- In such words as given below from which adjectives can be formed, the ‘e’ is retained to keep the c and g soft sounds
Notice noticeable, service serviceable, trace traceable, change changeable.
2. Sometimes the final ‘e’ is retained to avoid confusion with a smilar word.
Age ageing syringe syringing
3. In words ending in ‘oe; retain the ‘e’. eg. Canoe canoeing shoe shoeing
4. In the following cases the final ‘e’ is retained when adding ‘ly’ e.f nice nicely vague vaguely
READING ASSIGNMENT
Countdown in English by Evans pag 234 – 235
WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT
Practice 2 & 3 pg 148 – 149.
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