1.The long strike has finally produced ~the~ much needed result.❌
2.The long strike has finally produced much needed result.✅
1.~Gone are the days~ when you could buy from a total stranger.❌
2.The days are gone when you could buy from a total stranger.✅
1.The Igbo believe there's rain ~ God~.❌
2.The Igbo believe there's rain god.✅
Hamza Wankari
My pen lying in my hand
In between my finger and thumb
Dancing day and night
Bleeding on paper
Creating link between thoughts and words
When I had learnt to stay in a bookish cage
There's power in you, my pen
My translator of feelings
Letting you flow and flood
One day you will run dry like a stream
A waist without beads
Is a waist without worth
Cool-blooded like a piece of meat
In a waste bin for a weevil
Waddling in confines unashamedly
Which cannot waggle a man
To a warfare against his own will
Knowing such cannot whet appetite
A waist without beads
Is which cannot drive man to wetland
For which he cannot warble
Nor worship nor warp
Like a hot metal out of fire
Wary of weighty matters
Amidst the warmth of the night
Like a coin which cannot whimper
At gentle touch
To bend a man to whim
But whacking the fold unperturbed
~ASUU meeting WILL HOLD next week.❌
~ASUU meeting WILL BE HELD next week.✅
Rationale:
Hold, in this situation, is used in the passive form, not present as in example 2.
Note: ASUU will hold a meeting next week✅
~Mal. Halima knows the IN and OUT of the English phonology.❌
~Mal. Halima knows the INS and OUTS of the English phonology.✅
Rationale:
INS and OUTS means to know all the details about something, especially difficult ones. In striking contrast, 'in' and 'out' means going to a place regularly.
Note:The thief was in and out of the prison since childhood.✅
~Don't fall victim OF malpractice!❌
~Don't fall victim TO malpractice!✅
~Audu is not a victim OF malpractice.✅
Rationale:
Fall victim TO means to be affected by something. On top of that, whenever 'fall' comes before 'victim', always use 'to' rather than 'of'.
Have you learnt anything today?
