GENRES OF LITERATUREMeaning of GenreThe word ‘genre‘ is a Greek word which means ‘kind‘ or ‘type‘. So it means, instead of genre, when one sees kinds/types of literature, it means we are referring to the genres of literature.There are basically three...
In this article, we shall look at the meaning of literature, the forms of literature and their examples, and the importance of literature. Meaning of literatureLiterature refers to anything written or spoken. Etymologically, literature is from the Latin term ‘literatura’ or...
LITERARY DEVICESLiterary devices are structures or figures of expression that writers use to convey their messages to their readers. When these devices are properly used, they serve as guides to the readers to appreciate, analyse and interpret literary works. Literary devices...
The difference between ITS and IT’SMany users of the language often mistakenly interchange these two words in usage, including native speakers, however, they are never the same in terms of meaning, hence we cannot interchange one of them for the other...
A. CLASSIFICATION OF WORD CLASSESWord are classified into two groups; major/open word classes and minor/closed word classes.i. Major/Open word classes; these classes of words are open to new additions in the language, as there is no fix number of words that...
WHO, WHOM, WHOSE, WHICH, THAT These five words are called Relative pronouns, their usage has been somehow problematic; most users of the language wrongly interchange one of them for the other in usage, especially WHO and WHOM.Let’s take this opportunity to...
THE INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS ‘WHO’ ‘WHOM’ ‘WHAT’ ‘WHICH’ ‘WHOSE’ We are going to look at how to use the above five interrogative pronouns. Let us first look at the meaning of interrogative pronouns. Meaning of interrogative pronouns Interrogative pronouns are pronouns that...
INTRODUCTION TO SUMMARY WRITING You are welcome, in this article, we will look at how S.H.S. students can answer their W.A.S.S.C.E. summary passages without any difficulty. As we are all aware, summary is the section C of the W.A.S.S.C.E. English Language...
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TOO, VERY AND SO. TOO, VERY & SO; These three words are examples of adverbs of degree.In order to proceed to the substantive issue under discussion, we need to first of all, understand the meaning of adverbs of...
WORD CLASSES/PARTS OF SPEECH You are welcome,In this article, we are going to look at the following; Meaning of word class Examples of word classes Meaning of Word Class; A word class refers to the category a word or...
