Live Performance
SAMPLE I “Is live theatre really booming in Nigeria?... Life theatre in Nigeria is not alive... They were in the…
Fair, Fare, Fear
Sample 1: “The YWC leader also urged the Yorubas home and abroad to take ownership of the Tinubu project assuming…
There and Their (ii)
CONTINUED LAST WEEK THE second rule is that of the continuous or progressive tense. The rule is of the nature:…
There and Their (i)
Sample 1: “…he has not picked up any local dialect or the national language, English, which are dominantly spoken by…
In Public, Where, Were
Sample 1: “While we consider it needless to comment on the overburdened queer manner of the governor’s comportment in the…
Bother, Border, Former, Formal
SAMPLE 1: “If NLC cannot back the police to investigate a crime bothering on national security…you need to stand on…
Video Sighted, Video Cited
SAMPLE 1: “…the man declared in a video that surfaced on Facebook and sighted by our correspondent…Another video was cited…
Refer, Revere, Troupe, Troop
SAMPLE 1: “I am here to inform our fathers of my decision to run for the position of the president…
Touch, Torch, Property, Properties
SAMPLE 1: “Hoodlums who have infiltrated the ongoing hardship protest on Thursday set a portion of the Kaduna Transport Law…
In the Course of Speaking…
SAMPLE 1: “But in the cause of speaking with one of my distinguished sisters on not speaking when not recognized,…
Concord and Grammatical Forms
SAMPLE 1: “Protesters storms National Assembly and Villa over reinstatement of Sanusi Lamido as Emir of Kano…Several protesters has gathered…
Cease, Seize, Accuse, Allege
Sample 1: “Curiously, none of the gladiators laying claims to the leadership of the ruling party was on the ground…
Shoot, Shot, Short, Shut
SAMPLE 1: “Despite Barau’s efforts to shut down the bill…the majority of lawmakers supported it…” (Who is the current Senator…
5 simple ways to improve your vocabulary
If the vocabulary you know and understand today is the one you knew from your primary and secondary school days,…
Where, Were, the Public, in Public
SAMPLE 1: “Joe Igbokwe shared a quote from Oluremi Tinubu where she revealed that she told her husband that one…
Video Sighted, Video Cited
SAMPLE 1: “…the man declared in a video that surfaced on Facebook and sighted by our correspondent…Another video was cited…
Guide, Guard, Sometimes, Sometime
SAMPLE 1: “I want to stand today to render an apology to His Excellency and the entire people of Rivers…
Refer, Revere, Win, Defeat
SAMPLE 1: “The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has disowned an individual online which is alleging…
Borrow, Lend, Other, Order
SAMPLE 1: “As soon as former governor of Lagos State told Sowore to borrow him his bulletin, Sowore calmnly released…
Proof, Prove… (ii)
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK Again, the difference between the forms safe and save is similar to that between relief and…
