GST 101: Use of English - Exam Questions

• The text is from Usman Danfodiyo University Sokoto
• It contains UG 1 2020/21 first semester test questions
• The subject is GST 101, Use of English

Essay and Paragraph Structure

• An outline is a plan a writer adopts when writing an essay
• The introductory paragraph introduces the essay's topic in summary form

Grammar and Vocabulary

• The correct possessive pronoun is "Yours"
• The correct preposition is "of"
• The correct answer is (a) Yes they did for the question “Did they do that?”
• Shehu is the tallest of the three boys
• SVC: Subject-Verb-Complement
• The phrase "present perfect" is correct
• Use "Yours faithfully" to end a formal letter
• Pre'cis writing is a summary
• Skimming allows the reader to quickly locate specific information in a text
• The plural of "ox" is "oxen"
• A topic sentence gives the main idea
• Despite of: used to express that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
• Possible is the opposite of impossible
• "Are" is the correct form of the verb in the sentence: Either the driver or passengers are angry
• The correct preposition is "at"
• An adjective modifies a noun
• Reading the main context in a paragraph is called skimming
• Use "have" when waiting since morning
• "He reads well" is in the simple present tense
• Letter writing can be broadly divided into 3 categories
• Expository letters explain how things are done
• Cold is the opposite of hot
• Use "are" in the question, "These two cars are yours?"
• Beautiful is the opposite of ugly
• Opaque is the opposite of transparent
• The past participle of fly is flown
• The sentence "She had submitted her assignment" is SVC
• Correct sentence: Aminu dress in blue.
• The plural of mouse is mice
• "And" joins two sentences of equal grammatical status
• Carefully studied is the correct answer
• The past participle of "speak" is "spoken"
• The word "rat" acts as the subject in the sentence "Aminu killed a rat"
• Clever is synonymous for adroit
• Verb serves as at tense marker
• "Are" is the appropriate verb in the sentence: Neither the driver nor the passengers are happy
• Geese is the correct plural form
• Played is the correct past form
• A colon punctuation mark represents ......(:)

English Language

• Speaks is the proper word to use in regard to English
• Decieved is the correct use
• Cheap is the opposite of expensive
• The correct answer is lions
• A topic sentence contains the main idea in a paragraph
• A paragraph links main paragraphs together by summarizing important ideas
• Best is the only word to complete the sentence
• Beautiful is the opposite of ugly
• Disorder is the opposite of united in a sentence
• Past participle is tense
• A summary is a form of writing
• Is the correct use of proper grammar
• Broken is a past participle of break

Writing

• A plan that a writer adopts when writing an essay is an outline
• Verbs that acts as nouns in sentences are called gerunds
• Proper is the letter to use at the beginning of the letter
• The verb that acts like a noun in a sentence is called a gerund
• proper takes a capital letter at the beginning
• the correct use for husband and wife is to "make' a couples
• The proper use is to use "but"
• the proper use of the sentence is past tense
• Receive is the proper spelling
• Hypothesis is the proper spelling
• Put is the plural of put
• Article is the word for the word "the"
• better is the word for all the students is best
• Simple present is the word for this question
• Mechanics and spellings is the word for this question
• Abstract is the word for this
• English semi colon to contrast
• Pushed
• Past participles

You are sad?

• Are you, is the word for this

Has swept

• Has she is the word for this

Always Associated

• Singing is the word for this

Blue

• Motivated is the correct word

The Job

• Simple present is the correct

Many

• Girlfriend is the correct word
• A outline is a writer adopts to use of an essay

Unique Feature of

• Letter

Listing

• Reading is the word
• Inproper noun is the correct word
• Auxillary Verbs the Verb

Man completed

• The incorrect one to pick

The Man Was

• Aware
• Would is the correct answer for you

Letter

• Formal

You did not

• Has

You can not

• Been is the best word