END OF FIRST TERM EXAMINATION 2024/2025 ACADEMIC SESSION # ENGLISH LANGUAGE #

There are _______ organs of speech.

• eight

• six

• nine

• ten

• seven

Answer explanation

The ten organs of speech in English language are labial, bilabial, dental, palate, palato, alveolar, Vela glota, nasal and lateral.

Lateral is an organ of speech commonly referred to as the _____

• Vocal code

• Tongue

•  Jaw

• Lip

• teeth

Answer explanation

The tongue is referred to as the lateral in the study of the organs of speech.

Which of these is having the same meaning with the word ‘chores’?

• Activities

• Talk

• Free time

• Address

• Lovely

Answer explanation

Chores is referred to as our usual activities

Narrative essay usually focuses on a _______ or ________ which affects the main chracter.

• Excitement, difficulty

• Difficulty, problem

• Difficulty, comfortability

• Problem, excitement

• Problem, happiness

Answer explanation

Narrative essay lay more emphasis on problems, challenges or difficulties.

Which of these nouns names a particular person or place?

• Common noun

• Collective noun

• Compound noun

• Abstract noun

• Proper noun

Answer explanation

Proper nouns are used to name a particular person, animal, place or something e.g Abdulkadir, Bingo, Niger state, Tango etc. it usually begins with a capital letter.

The pure vowel sounds are known as _________

• Fricatives

• Affricatives

• Phonems

• Monophthongs

• Diphthongs

Answer explanation

All these are adverbs of place except ____________

• There

• Inside

• Outside

• Soon

• Upstairs

Answer explanation

There, outside, inside, upstairs are adverbs of place except soon which is an adverb of time.

Small words that shows how nouns or pronouns relate to each other in terms of time, place, or direction are known as ____________

• pronoun

• adjectives

• adverbs

• interjection

• non of the above

Answer explanation

Words that shows how nouns or pronouns relate to each other in terms of time, place, or direction is known as preposition which is not in the group of options.

One of these is not having the phonetic sound /a:/?

• park

• spark

• army

• bad

• grant

Answer explanation

Only the word 'bad' is no having the long sound /a:/.

Which of these is not a reason for writing letters?

• To sleep in the house

• To send information

• To make respond to a request

• To say thank you

• To apply for jobs