{"id":3833,"date":"2023-10-06T05:38:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T05:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ecole9ja\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2023-10-06T05:47:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T05:47:43","slug":"week-4-ss3-first-term-english-language-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/posts\/week-4-ss3-first-term-english-language-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4 &#8211; SS3 First Term English Language Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<strong>WEEK FOUR (4)<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>TOPIC: STRUCTURE: MORE ON NOMINIZATION<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Sub-Topic: Adjective AS NOMINALS<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Adjective can function in the same way that noun do but they must be preceded by the article &#8216;the&#8217; and must take plural verb. For instance<br \/>\n(i)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The rich sometimes help the poor<br \/>\n(ii)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The poor are always with us<br \/>\n(iii)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The strong often defend the weak<br \/>\n(iv)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The blind are usually provided with accommodation.<br \/>\n(v)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They treated the wounded at the clinic.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Verb as Nominals.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There are two verb form that can  occupy the nominal position the infinitive form such as &#8216;to&#8217; err&#8217; &#8216;to, moke&#8217; and the ground such as smok, dancing, and reading. E.g.<br \/>\n(i)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is prohibited to smoke in the class<br \/>\n(ii)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Smoking is prohibited in the church<br \/>\n(iii)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dancing is an activity I always enjoy<br \/>\n(iv) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To err is human, to forgive is divine<br \/>\n(v)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Children must learn that reading gives Joy.<br \/>\n(vi)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Her hobby is singing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Noun Phrases as Nominals.<br \/>\nThese are extended noun form. Examples are:<br \/>\n(i)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My Father came here yesterday.<br \/>\n(ii)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bello beat the man with the blue coat.<br \/>\n(iii)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The student in the blue car will attending like symposium.<br \/>\n(v)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The woman in the green dress is the mother of the girl I the red suit.<br \/>\nNoun Clauses as Nominals<br \/>\nThese are clauses used in nominal positions as subject, object or complement. For example;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>What I hate most is to be late to class\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Why he did it is still a mystery\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The good new is that she is here\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0Lesson 2<br \/>\nSPEECH WORK<br \/>\nTOPIC: MORE ON MONOTHONGES AND DIPHTHONGS.<br \/>\nMonopthongs is also calls pure vowel which are divided into two (2) segment, i.e seven short vowels and five long ones. E.g I:, I,e, e, ae, a: ,d , c: u, u: , u, , c:, a,<br \/>\nDiphtongs \u2013 This is a double sound, The diphthongs are vowels but they differs from the pure vowels because their articulation     involves  glides from one vowel quality to the other. A diphthong is therefore, a vowel which changes its quality in the process of its articulation. If you far instance the word &#8220;toy&#8221; the articulation of the diphthong in the word star with \/  \/ and end with \/I \/.<br \/>\nThere are eight diphthongs in English and their phonetic symbols indicate the initial and final vowels represented in the articulation. E.g \/ei\/, \/  \/, \/  \/, \/  \/, \/  \/, \/  \/, \/  \/.<br \/>\n\/ei\/ as in pay , again<br \/>\n\/  \/ as in home, go, so<br \/>\n\/ \/ as in rice , kite,<br \/>\n\/  \/ as in cow, house.<br \/>\n\/  \/ as in toy, rice<br \/>\n\/  \/ as in ear , here<br \/>\n\/ \/ as in air, hair<br \/>\n\/  \/ as in poor, tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0WEEK FOUR (4) TOPIC: STRUCTURE: MORE ON NOMINIZATION Sub-Topic: Adjective AS NOMINALS \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Adjective can function&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","category-first-term-ss3-english-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3834,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions\/3834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}