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The sentence "Every one of the boys seems excited about the picnic" deals with the subject-verb agreement. "Every one of the boys" is a singular subject because "every one" refers to each individual boy in the group, and it's treated as a singular unit. The verb that agrees with a singular subject is "seems". This is the correct form for the third-person singular present tense.

You should be ashamed of yourself for saying such a thing before the principal.

Babs Fafunwa Senior Secondary School, P.M .B 3016 Ojodu 14th April. 2016 Dear Charles, I received your letter in which you expressed your intention to study in my school with utmost happiness. I am particularly delighted that you will be with me in the same school benefiting from the enormous facilities available in my great school. As you know through one of our discussions when you came around during the last holidays, my school is named after the late Professor Babs Fafunwa who was an erudite scholar and one-time Minister of Education in this country. My school is a model Millennium school with good building spacious classrooms with all the needed comfort like ceiling fans and adequate seats for all students. It is located in a serene environment which makes the school conducive for learning. I am sure that the information that my school has good, spacious and well-equipped laboratories and a big, well-furnished library will delight you as a serious science student. Our laboratories are the best around as each of them has all necessary equipment for practical lessons and the school library can accommodate at least four hundred students at a time. The librarian is there to give out books to students which they can read in the library or take home. There is no doubt that you can get books and other ICT materials which can assist your academic excellence in the library. This is one of the reasons students don't loiter the schools premises in my school They have a library to go and read whenever they are free. Apart from this, my school has a team of qualified, resourceful and friendly teachers. They are also hardworking and always ready to render assistance to students as long as it will improve their academic performance. What is paramount in their mind is the academic excellence of their students. They are approachable and friendly as you are free to come to then for extra lessons on any topic that is not clear to you They believe that they are employed to solve any academic challenge their students have. You hardly can get such a team of selfless teachers in any shoot around. I am sure you find these teachers interesting when you come over to my school. All what I have told you so far culminated in the excellent academic performance of my school in public examinations. For so may years now, my school has always recorded high performance in all the subjects in the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE). You can be sure of having a good result if you change to my school. The high academic performance has also rubbed off on the school's participation in academic competitions like debates and spelling bee competitions as my school always come tops with prizes and laurels. I am using this letter to advise you not to change your mind as you have indicated your intention to come to my school to study. My school definitely where your thirst for good and qualitative education can be satisfied. happy to have you in my school. Yours Sincerely, Ossas.

THE NEED TO REVIVE OUR CORE SOCIETAL VALUES The loss of our hitherto cherished core societal values through modernization has been a great concern Nigerians. There has been a great increase in moral decadence in our society as many young people no longer believe in hard work, honesty, diligence, dedication, selflessness and other values that made our society of old habitable and meaningful. Nowadays, people are insatiable in their desire to get rich quick which makes them to exhibit a lot of greed and love for excessive materialism. What should be our core societal values are primarily honesty, selflessness in the service to our country humanity, dedication and truthfulness. Unfortunately, all these values have been lost to modernization and the realization of this fact is taring us in the face. This development has become a matter of constant discussion on radio, or television and newspapers. The consequences of the loss of these values have dangerously threatened the very existence of our society. What we have now are twisted social values. Honesty and selflessness in service which are major values that should have been cherished by our society have long since vanished with modernization. As a result of this, hard work and diligence, which should have been engendered by honesty and selflessness are no longer cherished by our youths. Those who acquire material wealth by dishonest and crooked means are praised and honoured while the hardworking but poor people are not respected simply because they don't have money. Therefore, as a result of this, many people don't believe in hard work. perseverance and selfless service. An average Nigerian is greedy and everybody wants to own and ride exotic and flashy cars and live in affluence at all cost. This has led to a lot of social vices like armed robbery, bribery and corruption. embezzlement and other social malaise bedevilling our society. All what most Nigerians want is to acquire wealth means since material acquisition speaks louder than such respected values like hard work, honesty, dedication and selflessness. Homes and families are not an exception as most parents are not honest. They encourage their children to acquire wealth by all means, no matter how crooked such means are. This is why public funds often convert to personal use and many Nigerians are dishonest. Honesty is no longer the best policy. The honest man now finds out to his utter dismay and disappointment that he is misfit in the society. It is, therefore, imperative that these core social values be revived for our society to be saved from drifting towards extinction. Honesty, hard work, selflessness, perseverance and other exemplary core societal values of those old days should be celebrated and be put above any other things. We should start to reward these values and punish social vices that tend to diminish these social values. Ade-Olufadeju Mofe

Daffodil Senior Secondary school, 10 Adenuga Street, Magodo, 14th April, 2016 The Chairman, Parent-Teacher Association. Daffodil Senior Secondary School. Magodo. Dear Sir, PROPOSED TRANSFORMATION OF OUR SCHOOL INTO A SINGLE-SEX SCHOOL The students received the proposal to change our school into a single-sex school with a lot of misgivings. As the senior prefect, I have been inundated with displeasure from students against such plans. i would want to disagree with the decision in support of the misgivings expressed by the majority of my schoolmates. First and foremost, co-education promotes a healthy academic rivalry among male and female students. I am of the opinion that male and female students should be given equal opportunity to excel in a school such as ours. As you know Sir, there has been a great healthy rivalry among us irrespective of sex. We have had several cases of boys and girls showing brilliance in various subjects and female students have always worked hard to prove that whatever their male colleagues can do, they can do also. In this way. our school has always been a platform for a progressive and healthy academic and sporting rivalries among male and female students. This healthy rivalry has been the hallmark of the high academic records that our school is known for. This will certainly be destroyed if the school becomes a single-sex school. Our school, as it is now. encourages healthy relationship that is suppose to exist between male and female students as a precondition for a peaceful co-existence in marriage in future. When boys and girls attend the same school, they learn about the psyche of one another. They will be able to understand the motives behind every behavior and change of attitude. Over the years. male and female students will gather numerous experiences which will enable them to live together in unity and harmony with the opposite sex even after leaving school. Sir. changing our school into a single-sex school will not expose the students to this type of experiences which may later jeopardize their marriage in future. I am not aware of what informs the decision of the parent-teacher association to change our school into a single-sex school but I know that the greatest fear of proponents of single-sex schools is immorality, which they believe is common in mixed schools. Immorality has not been a common thing among us. There have been no cases of rampant immorality as the school breeds good and brilliant students, both male and female. Changing the school into a single-sex school can even lead torn breeding homosexuality and lesbianism in the school as cases of such immorality is rife in single-sex schools. Sir, co-education is one of the ways through which we can ensure peaceful co-existence of adult males and females in marriage. Co-educational schools like ours afford us the opportunity to study together as well as knowing one another better. Changing the school into a single-sex school can jeopardize this, so it is not acceptable to us. I would appreciate it if you could use your good offices to influence the parent-teacher association to maintain the statusquo. Thank you Sir, Yours Faithfully Ndukwe Joshua

EDUCATION IS THE BEST LEGACY Chairman Panel of Judges. Time-keeper, Co-debaters. Ladies and Gentlemen I am here to support the motion which states "Education is the best legacy a parent can give a child" Education which can be formal or informal is a process of teaching, training and leaving aimed at improving knowledge and skill development. Education is important in the life of a child and it is the best legacy a parent can give a child. A parent who wants his child to be independent in thoughts in future has to give the child education Education is a liberating force which can liberate the thinking process of an individual and makes him to be independent of other peoples thought. A child who has been educated will have his own independent ideas and thoughts which will make him relevant to his society. The main adequate way to prepare a child for the challenges and problems he may likely face in future is by giving him good education. Apart from being capable of developing an independent thought process, education gives him a meal ticket. An educated person will always remain relevant and employable to make use of the skills and knowledge he has acquired. Any parent who wants a better future for his child will not but give the child good education. Education will enable him to secure good jobs, occupy leadership positions in his society as education has always remain the only criterion for achieving greatness and for attaining leadership positions in his society. Furthermore. a parent who does not want his child to depend on his properties after his death will give education to his child. For the child to be able to manage whatever his parent will leave behind for him and to be able to build on it, he must acquire education Education will allow the child to be able to manage and even build on any inheritance left behind by his parent. A parent who amasses material wealth without given his child education would not have his wealth sustained after his death. Lastly, education gives a child great initiative and insight to a lot of things that will make him become great and successful in life. Illiteracy is usually a limiting factor while education broadens ones horizon and enlarges one's scope. Therefore, a parent who wants his child not to be limited will give him education so as to enable him to soar among his peers. I hope that i have been able to convince you, with my points that education is the best legacy a parent can give a child.

Chioma was a tall lady with an aquiline nose and a beautiful face. She was endowed with a long hair which made the villagers of umueke to rate her as the most beautiful lady in the village. Her family tall height added to her homely features. Chioma was the only child of chief Nwachukwu and his wife. Her father was a popular rich timber contractor in the village and he held so many chieftaincy titles in the land. His affluence made his popularity spread far and wide across several villages as a man of means. As the only daughter of Chief Nwachukwu, Chioma had a very rosy childhood as she grew up in affluence and had every comfort in her stride. As she grew up in the village, she became a spoilt child who had many servants at her beck and call. Chief Nwachukwu and his wife regarded Chioma as a child who must not be made to deprivation and anything she requested must be provided. Chioma, though not too brilliant, attended a secondary school after which she settled down in her village to live with her wealthy parents. She went into trading and with much money at her disposal, she soon after became wealthy too as her trade blossomed. She did not have many friends as she was very choosy and arrogant because of her family background and wealth. Those few friends could not advise her as she would not listen to them. Her beauty and affluence ran into her head and made her conceited She regarded herself as being above everybody else as nobody could offer to advise her on any matter. She behaves arrogantly towards every villager. Men were even afraid of asking her hands in marriage any longer. Some men who were bold enough to woo her in the past were rebuffed as she usually looked down on them as being below her status. After years, men in the village decided not seek her hands in marriage. Any men who mentioned their intention to approach her would be told not to do so. This made Prince Ndukwe, the son of the king of the village to make up his mind to go for the hands of Chioma in marriage. The Prince had just came back from his studies abroad and decided to visit his village. One evening, he decided to meet Chioma and tell her his mind to marry him The prince was told off when he mentioned his intention to marry Chioma. She said "I can't marry you. though your father is the king He is not as rich as my father". Prince Ndukwe went back home dejected and the men in the village sighed with "had we not told him" as the news of his encounter with Chioma spread across the village. Two years after, Chioma and her parents decided to travel to the city in search of a suitor for their daughter. As they were going, they had a fatal accident and Chief Nwachukwu and his wife died in the accident while Chioma got spinal cord injury. She was confined to wheel chair and her business went down as she had to depend on people to do most of the things she wanted to do. She was in the condition for about four years when her father's sister came to pay her a visit and told her of the need for her to get married as she was forty two years old "All your friends are married and as you are now, you can not find a suitor in the city. You have to accept any man that come for your hands in marriage", her aunt said. Few week after, Chioma was approached by a man with a hunch back. She had no option than to accept to marry him. The news that Chioma was going to marry a hunch back man spread across the village and to the delight of all suitable suitors she had rebuffed because of her pride

(a) The writer's father warened the boys against going out at night because it was risky/dangerous/unsafe. (b) "a stone throw (from ours)" (c) The (powerful) headlights of the teacher's car enabled him to discover the boys. (d) The writer hurried to get down, lost his balance and fell. (e) The writer's father refused to open the door because he though/believed that his son was sleeping peacefully in his room. (f) (i) It is noun phrase (ii) It is the object of (the verb) "raised" (g) (i) it is a simile (ii) It mans very fast (h) (i) recent - current, latest. (ii) delicious - sweet, tasty, luscious, mouth-watering. (iii) stealthy - secretly, quietly, surreptitiously, unnoticed, covertly (iv) approaching - oncoming, advancing.

(a) (i) Medical care has improved greatly (ii) The spread of education has contributed to the rapid increase in the world population (iii) improved agricultural practices have made food more available to more people. (iii) The world is more peaceful today. (b) (i) Continuing rapid population growth may take Planet Earth too small to accomodation mankind. The Planet Earth may be overpopulated. (ii) Continuing rapid population growth may lead to environmental pollution/degradation.

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(a) (i) Medical care has improved greatly (ii) The spread of education has contributed to the rapid increase in the world population (iii) improved agricultural practices have made food more available to more people. (iii) The world is more peaceful today. (b) (i) Continuing rapid population growth may take Planet Earth too small to accomodation mankind. The Planet Earth may be overpopulated. (ii) Continuing rapid population growth may lead to environmental pollution/degradation.

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No expanded working has been attached for this question yet. The verified answer is Option C.

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