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7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by OnlineTv247: 1:53pm On Mar 31, 2020
7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.

I know grammar is the last thing on most people’s minds right now, but for the few people who care (and who have been sending me inquiries in private messages), here are seven coronavirus grammar lessons:

1. People test positive FOR coronavirus, not “TO” it. It is, “El-Rufai tests positive FOR coronavirus,” not “El-Rufai tests positive TO coronavirus.”

2. Quarantine is pronounced KWO-RAN-TEEN, not KWO-RAN-TAIN, in both British and American English. In other words, quarantine rhymes with "canteen," not "valentine."

3. Coronavirus is a single word, although “corona virus” is an acceptable variant.

4. People tend to use (“self-)quarantine” and “(self-)isolation” interchangeably, but they’re different. You (self-)quarantine yourself when you suspect that you may have the disease because you have come in contact with people who have tested positive for it. You go into (self-)isolation when you test positive for the disease.

If you stay home NOT because you came in contact with people who have the disease and NOT because you tested positive for it, but because your government insists you do, or you do so on your own volition just to eliminate or decrease your chances of getting the disease, it’s called “shelter in place.”

5. An epidemic is a disease that temporarily affects a large number of people in a locality while a pandemic is a disease that has spread throughout a country, a continent or the entire world. Coronavirus is obviously a pandemic.

6. You don't "contact" a disease; you "contract" it. So people can only "contract" coronavirus, not "contact" it.

7. Finally, the other name for coronavirus is COVID-19, not COVIK 1, 9.�Don’t be misled by what a certain physically quarantined and mentally isolated “president,” now infamously known as “President COVIK” on social media, said a few days ago.�

Nor should you call COVID-19 “Code 19,” as Nigeria’s notoriously pliant rubber-stamp Senate President by the name of Ahmed Lawan did two days ago. Well, this same man told the world of a woman who “killed her husband to death”! Go figure.

Source: https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2020/03/7-corovavirus-grammar-lessons.html?m=1

Farouq Kperogi, Mass Communication Professor, writes from the US

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by princemillla(m): 1:59pm On Mar 31, 2020
Good one. Atleast people will learn and not infect us with something worse





This Coronavirus get as e be oooo.. Sey the thing dey whyne us ni.

After lock down people go carry Belle like say. As guys just DEy quarantine with different babes smiley wink wink

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by helinues: 2:06pm On Mar 31, 2020
grin

I was having a chat With a friend the other day, the guy was just shouting I don quarantine, I don quarantine.

When I asked him with what, he said soap and water

Dude only borrowed the words without knowing the meaning.

Another one was telling me he is on self isolation when he has family of 4..

Finally, the other name for coronavirus is COVID-19 not COVIK-1.9

Lies, go and watch the Delta woman video

The new name is Ivarus gorilla grin angry

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Nobody: 2:08pm On Mar 31, 2020
People are researching for its cure and you're researching for grammar associated with it.
Leaving content and chasing shadow, typical African.undecided

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by helinues: 2:10pm On Mar 31, 2020
J111333:
People are researching for its cure and you're researching for grammar associated with it.
Leaving content and chasing shadow, typical African.undecided

I know grammar is the last thing on most people’s minds right now, but for the few people who care

You could have Waka passed truly

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Iceberg3: 2:11pm On Mar 31, 2020
OnlineTv2347:
I know grammar is the last thing on most people’s minds right now, but for the few people who care (and who have been sending me inquiries in private messages), here're 7 coronavirus grammar lessons:

1. People test positive FOR coronavirus, not “TO” it. It is, “El-Rufai tests positive FOR coronavirus,” not “El-Rufai tests positive TO coronavirus.”

2. Quarantine is pronounced KWO-RAN-TEEN, not KWO-RAN-TAIN, in both British and American English. In other words, quarantine rhymes with "canteen," not "valentine."

3. Coronavirus is a single word, although “corona virus” is an acceptable variant.

4. People tend to use (“self-)quarantine” and “(self-)isolation” interchangeably, but they’re different. You (self-)quarantine yourself when you suspect that you may have the disease because you have come in contact with people who have tested positive for it. You go into (self-)isolation when you test positive for the disease.

If you stay home NOT because you came in contact with people who have the disease and NOT because you tested positive for it, but because your government insists you do, or you do so on your own volition just to eliminate or decrease your chances of getting the disease, it’s called “shelter in place.”

5. An epidemic is a disease that temporarily affects a large number of people in a locality while a pandemic is a disease that has spread throughout a country, a continent or the entire world. Coronavirus is obviously a pandemic.

6. You don't "contact" a disease; you "contract" it. So people can only "contract" coronavirus, not "contact" it.

7. Finally, the other name for coronavirus is COVID-19 not COVIK-1.9

Please share to others to be informed!

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Highly sophisticated mo_______rannnnnns and Coneheaded structures take note

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Jaynom(m): 3:34pm On Mar 31, 2020
Lol . Corona doesn't care about "Grammar" grin

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by NaijaOlosho(f): 3:34pm On Mar 31, 2020
grin

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Mekudi: 3:34pm On Mar 31, 2020
Na you sabi, maybe Coro understand grammar

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by morikee: 3:34pm On Mar 31, 2020
Covik 1-9 Biros

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Mindlog: 3:35pm On Mar 31, 2020
No be grammar dey worry mankind now!

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by DirtyGold: 3:35pm On Mar 31, 2020
Speaking too much grammer... what a coronal travesty!

But, i still don't understand what the deal is about this covid19 bullshit though...
How can a chinese flu with very low mortality rate ground almost all sectors of a civilized world?

Imagine this quote for America alone: "The CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 22,000 deaths, 36 million flu illnesses, 370,000 hospitalizations. The 2019-2020 influenza outbreak is moderate to low in ..." Yet, not even a single county has been locked down in America due to flu (which is a yearly thing by the way)! But corona shows up and everywhere scattered undecided

What's tha business?

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Kendumazy(m): 3:36pm On Mar 31, 2020
Coronavirus isn't an epidemic. It's a pandemic. Take note.
Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Coronavirus84: 3:37pm On Mar 31, 2020
May the Lord Almighty God heal the World in Jesus name

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by princeade86(m): 3:37pm On Mar 31, 2020
Na ur grammar go heal them Na. Mtcheeee.

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Aboki99(m): 3:38pm On Mar 31, 2020
Is there anything this zealot would write without insulting Bubu? Farooq suffers from Buhariphobiasis

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Aldebaran(m): 3:38pm On Mar 31, 2020
You've been making sense until you got to number seven...

Your explanation in number 7 shows who you truly are....

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Roon9(m): 3:38pm On Mar 31, 2020
Lmao! Nothing bubu no go see for Cuba grin

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Nobody: 3:38pm On Mar 31, 2020
angry
Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by exclusive2019: 3:39pm On Mar 31, 2020
The mods on this forum are infected with coronavirus.
HOW WILL THIS FUCKING SHIT HELP US REDUCE INFLATED PRICES OF ESSENTIALS

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Nobody: 3:39pm On Mar 31, 2020
Mr Teacher, how this one take solve the problem wey dey ground?�
Anyway, thanks for the lecture ��
Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by paulsibility(m): 3:39pm On Mar 31, 2020
Street's definition...

With money at home you are in #isolation
No money, you're in #quarantine.
No money and troublesome/nagging wife, my Brother you in #totalshutdown... �




Copied...
#stayhome #staysafe

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Vanpascore(m): 3:40pm On Mar 31, 2020
Well done. What about the use of "contain" and "curtail" the spread of the virus??

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Bimpe29: 3:40pm On Mar 31, 2020
Thanks for broaden our knowledge, but the last point is somehow embarrassing.

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by TheChameleon: 3:40pm On Mar 31, 2020
Iceberg3:


Highly sophisticated mo_______rannnnnns and Coneheaded structures take note



Dabullit. watch yourself. Hotoromental. Gmbuharii.

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by Roon9(m): 3:40pm On Mar 31, 2020
Aboki99:
Is there anything this zealot would write without insulting Bubu? Farooq suffers from Buhariphobiasis


Aboki park well

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Re: 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons You Should Know by kingjrofficial(m): 3:40pm On Mar 31, 2020
angry

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