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Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 10:54pm On Dec 03, 2010 |
Besides, the past subjunctive often relates to a 'wish'. Also, clauses introduced by 'as if' and 'if'. E.g. If Ola tried more, Odunnu would be his wife. Ferdiii wouldn't be so confident about Odunnu if he were Ola. We are used to some forms of verb in the subjunctive. E.g. If only this had been a thorough process, . . . . . . When a statement/sentence is connected by two clauses, and: 1. One states a CONDITION 2. The other a RESULT. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by Nobody: 12:17am On Dec 04, 2010 |
Ola, I enjoy ur infintives and its subs. POSER Which one is in order? 1.Politicians siphon money abroad. 2.Politicians siphon off money abroad. Any different meaning between 1.in future 2.in the future Which one is correct:1.Have your cake and eat. 2.Eat your cake and have it. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 7:26am On Dec 04, 2010 |
ferdiii: 2. Siphon off |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 7:32am On Dec 04, 2010 |
ferdiii: In future: British English In the future: American English It means 'from now on'. Both are idioms. However, 'in the foreseeable future' is different. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 7:33am On Dec 04, 2010 |
ferdiii: 1. Have your cake and eat it. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by Nobody: 12:18pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
Please Ola & Slap1, which one is correct?:1.The result or admission list is out. 2.The result or admission list is in. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 1:25pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
ferdiii: Hmmmmmmmm. I can only say: The results are out (this normally relates to students - when it is available to view by students). The result is in (this normally relates to school authorities, news agencies and election bodies). The result of an election is out when the general public can view it. It is in when only the authorities have it (e.g. Jega is in possession of the result and informs reporters aout this development). Also, a live coverage by a news agency (i.e. they have it but not yet reeled out (or not yet in details) on their channel/page/wave e.t.c.). E.g. NTA: the result just in indicates that Ola has won. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by Busybody2(f): 1:28pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
ola olabiy: Mr Lecturer,if we casn call you this Sir, you skipped the question about double dating earlier, isn't this wrong? Shouldn't it be two-timing |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 1:33pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
Busy_body: Awon ti Romance section. E be like sey my body go jolly today oo. @OP. Where is the question, ma? I didn't see it ni ma. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 2:02pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
^^^^ I was joking o, Busybody. Both are English words. It depends on what you have in mind ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hmmmmmmmmmmm |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by Busybody2(f): 2:06pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
ola olabiy: Eemi ke ni romonce sekshun, o ti o, na my clone be that ![]() ![]() ![]() Wait come oh, Oga Lecturer, so you mean no be you be the person wey dey the link below, see you too don get clone like me, it must mean you have joined the intelligentsia league like me ![]() https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-445642.192.html#msg6817181 Okay i confess, na me dey romance section ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by Busybody2(f): 2:14pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
ola olabiy: My pet peeve is when Nigerians generally wrongly use double dating to mean someone is cheating on them with two people instead of saying two-timing. An example from a thread culled from the err . . . Politics section which I only visit - https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-558592.0.html |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 2:14pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
Busy_body: If e no be Ola, e no fit be Ola, ma. Just checked, ma, you have been nominated as the best Political ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is my thread. . . ., this is Ola on NL. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 2:18pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
Busy_body: You're right. But, i wouldn't call it a pet peeve. Mine are 'am' (I am), 'loose' (lose) and 'your' (you're). |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 2:26pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
Busy_body: I no wan dat league. Nah to dey jolly with women and politicians I prefer. Intelligentsia? Nahhhh. Make my hair come go grey. Me wey be be Babyface. Rara ma. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 2:31pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
Busy_body: Me too ooo. I was different 20 years a go too. I was into ehn. . . , ehn . ., education, politics and many yeye analysis. Now, it is about good things of life (you know what I mean?). |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by Busybody2(f): 3:12pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
ola olabiy: Maybe I should change my name to ![]() Of course, they had to recognise me as the best. Didn't you also see i was nominated best in 2001/2002/2003/2004/2005/2006/2007/2008/2009 too, oh ok maybe you didn't see that because my modest self told them to keep it secret in order not to oppress nairalanders that I am the most intelligent ![]() ola olabiy: Aaaarrrgh, not when 99.9999999999% of nairalanders have their foot permanently stationed in their mouth when this words comes up in threads again, in err . . . the Politics section ![]() https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-337657.0.html#msg4754409 https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-406171.0.html#msg5607161 etcetera, etcetera, etcetera ![]() ola olabiy: Why not, awww shows you are a modest being like me as i have never told nor boasted to anyone how I am the most intelligent on NL ![]() ![]() ola olabiy: Good things like wetin, you mean to say asides from Romance and Dating section oer . . . err . . .sticky keyboards dang . . . err . . . i meant Politics section, of course . . . i fit hook young, nubile men elsewere ![]() ![]() ![]() @topic Another one I hate is "that means to say" ![]() |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 3:25pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
Busy_body: You no go kill me oooooo, Bisi. LWKMD. I don forget the section we dey sef. Ehn, ehn, good things like dating nau. Wetin again? Me too. Dey try hook beautiful babes for here oo. Politics section ke, I no dey click am. Dat one na for eggheads and I no wan be one sef. I dey gbadun you, sha. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 3:26pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
I go go for scan too ooooooo. I wan no if I have a brain too oo. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 3:46pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
I am sorry o,Ferdiii, Slap1 and Stevet. Your thread was briefly derailed. Abeg. I have to hook up with her on our usual Section. Luv her sha. Very funny babe. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by denzel2009: 4:00pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
Ola mate, hens no dey chop im bro hen's intestines oh. Dont fall for busybody's advances. She's taken! |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 4:17pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
denzel2009: Bro, e go hard oo. Because she don dey do me yori yori ![]() ![]() Hen for NL sef dey chop everything. Na Seunland we dey oo. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by Busybody2(f): 4:24pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
ola olabiy: Babe don't get yourself worked up over this 3 dudes, next time they come to derail your thread, let me in on it, they are on my radar, ha ha effing rulebreakers, dunno what is so hard to understand in a "Do not derail thread" instruction ![]() ![]() ![]() ola olabiy: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 4:31pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
Busy_body:Bisi, Slap1 will kill me oo. This thread has been derailed. This thread is now travelling on the left-hand side of Yaba. Nah you be d babe nau (No One - Alicia Keys). Hey, Odunnu will kill me too. Haah, Ileke-idi nko? Chei, there is one more, ehm, ehn, tanimz. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by Busybody2(f): 4:33pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
denzel2009: If it is not my one and only Delectable Dazzzling Dashing Denzel2009 okunrin meta and half himself, hello sugarplum, fancy seeing you here ![]() ![]() ![]() Oya make we commot for hia before they come and accost us of derailing the thread. I already had to warn off 3 dudes already ![]() ![]() |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 4:40pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
Busy_body:Una don see my life? Dem don take fine boy collect ma woman. The same with Odunnu. Just when I thought my line was yielding fruits oo. NO SHAKING sha. Odunnu will be back. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by denzel2009: 4:55pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
Busybody my babymama ![]() ![]() Ola my paddy, take it easy with yoriyori o. Poser I look forward to sleeping on busy_body's bed. I look forward to sleeping in busy_body's bed. I look forward to sleep on busy_body's bed. Which one? |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by Busybody2(f): 5:19pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
As your most intelligent and best student who a lot of people look up to, i don't want to join those thread derailers i just helped you chase off, so make i just leave you to continue your lecturing jejely whilst i go and propagate your name all over NL and dazzle them with the knowledge you have been imparting on me ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() see me doing you proud here ![]() ![]() https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-560241.32.html#msg7271378 As for that jolos trifling ileke-idi, na me and am go enter same sokoto today ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by Busybody2(f): 5:27pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
denzel2009: But, but, but, i want to retain my size 0 waste and so i thought we already agreed Jennykadri was going to be the incubator to carry the 25 pikin we plan to have, via insermination with a turkey baster of course ![]() ![]() ![]() Easy peasy, is this a trick question, I could have answered that in my sleep, the correct answer is - I LOOK FORWARD TO SLEEPING WITH BUSY_BODY ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() @Ola Olabiyi If you need an Assistant Lecturer, you know where to look ![]() |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 5:54pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
Busy_body: denzel2009: The correct version is ' Ola looks forward to sleeping inside busy_body'. ![]() This thread has gone to d dogs ooooooo. Odunnu, plz gba mi now |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 5:55pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
Seun, please, delete page 27. Abeg. Busy_body, abeg, let's talk offline. |
Re: ABC Of Common Errors And Mistakes In English by olaolabiy: 5:59pm On Dec 04, 2010 |
Bisi, you fine welu welu. I likey ur pinshure. Hola me jare. Ori mi ti fonkasibe. Now, Romance section, abeg. |
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