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Bare infinitive, fortnight

Sample 1: “He told the gathering of prominent journalists, top government functionaries and politicians that the occasion made him returned…

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Championing a Cause

Sample 1: “Governor Akeredolu has been championing the course of Amotekun corp, just because he knows Ondo State is the…

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Personnel, Staff, Allege

Sample 1: “An Air Force Personnel has been arrested in connection with the attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna…

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Elements of Concord Revisited

There is one more grammatical blight waiting for analytic attention in the excerpt addressed last Sunday. It is for the…

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My Long-standing, Forbearing Readers

Sample 1: “…effort to contact the public relations officer of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, Ogun Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi…

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Special usage of ‘Do’ Revisited

There is one last point of grammar requiring attention in an excerpt already featured here twice. The excerpt is re-presented…

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Special usage of ‘Do’ revisited (2)

Today, we continue the discussion commenced last week. There are significant wrong choices deserving analytic attention. Last week’s excerpt, whose…

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Special Usage of DO Revisited

Sample 1: “Why did the same report claimed that the robbers packed money and other valuable assets from both houses?…

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Guard, Guide, There, Their

Sample 1: “What ladies that dress decently guide jealously and with pride is what other ladies sun-dry for any pair…

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Being, Been Revisited

Sample 1: “Meanwhile, a ransom of #6 million is been demanded by the kidnappers to secure the release of the…

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Institutional Names as Proper Nouns

Sample 1: “The victims where shot after being dispossessed of their phones and other items by the assailants. According to…

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Relief, Relieve, Proof, Prove…

Sample 1: “Lagos residents will soon heave a sigh of relieve as the state government is considering re-opening of the…

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Concord, Dates, Particles, In Order to

Sample 1: “The Koran and the Bible was said to have been used in the event, with Muslims throwing questions…

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Personnel, Staff, Where

Sample 1: “He said an army Lieutenant and a Civil Defencepersonnel also sustained gunshot wounds during the exchange of fire…

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Former, Formal Seat of Power

Sample 1: “Not even a personality like MC Oluomo who controls and manages the affairs of the ‘bad boys’ in…

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Proof, Prove revisited

Sample 1: “The above pictures which three wives snapped could be a prove as well that there is unity among…

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Struck, Rented, Slain

Sample 1: “Tragedy has strucked again as another prominent Nigerian has left this world.”(SAD: The Yoruba activist who died this…

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The Teeming Clergy

Sample 1: “Recall that Olaiya Igwe had, last week Tuesday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, marked his birthday anniversary with his…

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Having Been to the Village

Sample 1: “He has not paid the N10m my village imposed on him; he has not being to the village…

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Bare Infinitive and Other Matters

Sample 1: “He disclosed that politicians who helped Adeosun forged her NYSC certificate were the same people who leaked the…

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