It might sound like Gerard, but no, it鈥檚 not somebody鈥檚 name.
2. Subject-Verb Agreement aka Concord
If you don鈥檛 remember this, you should really hide your head in shame. This topic caused so much heartache in English Language exams. The struggle to understand concord and its many rules was real.
3. Monophthong, Diphthong and Triphthong
Probably the only 鈥渢hongs鈥 you remember now are the ones they wear abi? SMH! Shame! Shame on you!聽Monophthong, Diphthong and Triphthongs are the three different ways of producing vowel sounds. Remember now?
4. Phrases
Noun phrases, verb phrases, adjectival phrases; back then it seemed like every thing was a phrase.
5. Clauses
Clauses made us feel almost the same way phrases made us feel and were just as, if not more confusing than them.
6. Punctuation Marks
Judging by the nonsense way people write on Facebook and Twitter, I鈥檓 pretty sure punctuation was聽the first thing y鈥檃ll forgot as soon as WAEC was over. Shebi?
7. Prepositions
When to use 鈥渋n鈥 and 鈥渙n鈥, 鈥渦nder鈥 and 鈥渂eneath鈥; prepositions were hard to understand even when we were being taught, talk less of now.
8. Verbs and Adverbs
A verb is an action word or a doing wordAs learned in every Nigerian primary school
If this was you defining a verb in primary school, do like this:
9. Nouns and Pronouns
Name, name, name, name; this game helped us to remember what a noun is. But I鈥檓 pretty sure y鈥檃ll have forgotten.
10. Comparative and Superlative
Just add 鈥-er鈥 or 鈥-est鈥 in some cases. In others, 鈥渕ore鈥 and 鈥渕ost鈥. But do you even remember which goes when?
