Your child doesn't want to go to the playground to play with other kids. Or she doesn't want to attend a friend's birthday party or the class pool party.
Dear Auntie Betty, Please help me to advise my friend to stop gossiping. She’s always talking about other people, even things she has no knowledge of. I feel bad about her behaviour but she will just not listen. Worried girl, Cape Coast.
In the past few weeks, we have been looking at idiomatic expressions whose composition seems to go against the normal principles of grammar, for which reason many people may consider such expressions incorrect and would want to 'correct' them.
Today, your favourite and ever popular Junior Graphic is beginning a new column with the title SLIP-UPS. The essence of the new column is to draw attention to the many common errors people make as they use English in their everyday discourses --- conversations, writings, correspondence, examinations, etc. The ultimate aim is to make all of us identify such common errors and avoid them. As pupils and students who have English Language examinations to write in the nearest future, we cannot afford to make the mistakes many people take for granted because we need to pass our examinations well to be able to climb the academic ladder to the very top. To make the column interactive and very relevant to you, my dear readers, I want you to bring to my attention any such slip-ups you come across, so that your fellow pupils and students elsewhere can also become aware of them. Your interaction with the column could be in the form: Why do we say or write: I
A new Indian government survey shows that there have been improvements in the country's sex ratio, but an overwhelming majority still desires a male child.
The feeling of hunger is a message sent to your brain by your body. The message is that nutritive materials are missing from the blood. Let’s see how this happens.
After a surge in the number of abductions in recent years, South Africa has one of the highest rates of kidnapping in the world, as Mpho Lakaje reports from Johannesburg.
