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DrBESTJC:
Hello Guys.....
Apart from these documents...

> JAMB REGISTRATION-SLIP
> JAMB ORIGINAL RESULT
> EVIDENCE OF COMPLETION OF UI PUTME REGISTRATION FORM

Is there any other document that we are required to come to the exam hall with?

JAMB original result ke ah i don enter one chance

chufor:


But the book is saying the former is correct oh

They're wrong

Dunsin89:

Check my signature

The price is not on your siggy

EngrBello:


They're wrong

Actually the former is the right answer sir. This is because they are performing an action.

oldfoolnigger:



the former....



congregation there is a collective noun(Notional Concord)

normally, collective noun goes with singular verb but in this case it performs action and for that, it attracts plural noun...

let break it down...

the congregation (that's the ) are dancing not is...



let me come and be going..

oh no sir... go and be coming...lols

EngrBello:


It depends on how the noun is been used...either singular or plural form.
Collective noun like choirs, would be followed by are
While choister would be followed by is


The congregation is/was(PT) dancing
The congregation s are/were(PT) dancing


The correct answer is IS because the collective noun was a singular

No need arguing... that's just ur opinion.
lol...the congregation there is not a singular noun but a plural one....
consider this example now..

Our club is ten years old today(it attracts singular verb cos club there stands for just organization or its physical building and didn't perform any action)

our club are holding meeting tomorrow (our club here now stands for the and not just the organization..Also they will be performing action which is "holding meeting "that's why plural verb was used.

Same way congregation ( are performing action which is " singing " it should attract plural verb and not a singular one...

The question is even straightforward...Not confusing as other questions from notional Concord

Aybalance:
oh no sir... go and be coming...lols

Hahaha... me and "make I come and be coming "

[quote author=Mobuoy19 post=61326107]N= remaining value.

No----------------- 0

N/2 ----------------20 years

N/4-----------------40 years

∴ it will take 40 years for the activity to become quarter of the original.

bosses pls help solve these questions
1 a force of 20N applied parallel to the surface of horizontal table is just sufficient to make a block of mass 4kg set for motion. Find the acceleration when the force is doubled.

2 a vibrating string has a tension of 40N and produces a note of 200Hz when plucked in the middle. When the length of string is unaltered and the tension is increased to 160N the frequency becomes?

3 how far from a concave mirror of radius 120cm must an object be placed such that its erect image is four times its natural size

Thanks in anticipation

Hardebaryor:
Actually the former is the right answer sir. This is because they are performing an action.

More power to ur elbow joor







make I come and be going

DrBESTJC:
Hello Guys.....
Apart from these documents...

> JAMB REGISTRATION-SLIP
> JAMB ORIGINAL RESULT
> EVIDENCE OF COMPLETION OF UI PUTME REGISTRATION FORM

Is there any other document that we are required to come to the exam hall with?

Evidence of payment too....
check the mail u used to for post utme and print it from there.

oldfoolnigger:


More power to ur elbow joor







make I come and be going

Lol before you come and be going, is it true that we are to bring our jamb original result along because i haven't print mine

Hardebaryor:
Lol before you come and be going, is it true that we are to bring our jamb original result along because i haven't print mine

Yea...very important





hope I can come and be going now?

oldfoolnigger:

Yea...very important




hope I can come and be going now?

Ok thanks you can now be going

hello, plz is the any kogite here coming for the post ume. urgent response please

Nltaliban:


The price is not on your siggy

Call the number

EngrBello:


It depends on how the noun is been used...either singular or plural form.
Collective noun like choirs, would be followed by are
While choister would be followed by is


The congregation is/was(PT) dancing
The congregation s are/were(PT) dancing
But they are performing an action that is why the answer become 'are'

The correct answer is IS because the collective noun was a singular

But they are performing an action that is why the answer become 'is'
I am even thinking of something ,what if the question was like
The congregation are neat
The congregation is neat
As for me I am going for the latter

EngrBello:


It depends on how the noun is been used...either singular or plural form.
Collective noun like choirs, would be followed by are
While choister would be followed by is


The congregation is/was(PT) dancing
The congregation s are/were(PT) dancing


The correct answer is IS because the collective noun was a singular

Sometimes, English doesn't go the way we think it would. There are different rules guiding different kinds of sentences. Ever heard of notional concord

Lemme explain.
Notional agreement, sometimes called notional concord or synesis, means applying subject-verb agreement rules according to the intended meaning rather than according to syntax. So we can pair a singular noun with a plural verb or a plural noun with a singular verb when the intended meaning calls for it:

The school committee disagree about what to cut from the budget.(I know you'd have said 'the school committee disagrees about what to cut from the budget') Here, I want you to notice that the committee here refers to of the committee and not committee as a compound word.

People tend to concentrate on the exact word that they take to be the subject of the sentence when sometimes they should be looking at the thought that the word represents.

Chufor

Look at sentences critically before proffering an answer

chufor:


But they are performing an action that is why the answer become 'is'
I am even thinking of something ,what if the question was like
The congregation are neat
The congregation is neat
As for me I am going for the latter

Let me put it this way.

Sometimes, what you look out for is whether the subject is acting individually. If they are, you apply a plural verb.

Maybe I should say, if the notion is one of a group of individuals acting individually, use the plural verb

Eg The congregation is dancing(it's an individual action)

Atlantia,weldon oo

Are there no Economics or Government students here?

It's totally heartbreaking

Pls on the post utme day.....what are the people who are going for the post utme ought to bring.........
And I heard oau post jamb was just 40questions .......will ui do the same

ugo147:
Pls on the post utme day.....what are the people who are going for the post utme ought to bring.........
And I heard oau post jamb was just 40questions .......will ui do the same

Egbon, expect 100 questions from UI. Na their own dey different

25 questions per subject

oldfoolnigger:




No need arguing... that's just ur opinion.
lol...the congregation there is not a singular noun but a plural one....
consider this example now..

Our club is ten years old today(it attracts singular verb cos club there stands for just organization or its physical building and didn't perform any action)

our club are holding meeting tomorrow (our club here now stands for the and not just the organization..Also they will be performing action which is "holding meeting "that's why plural verb was used.

Same way congregation ( are performing action which is " singing " it should attract plural verb and not a singular one...

The question is even straightforward...Not confusing as other questions from notional Concord

Check that out....
Look at this examples ;
Group. ; Groups
Club. ; Clubs
Congregation. : Congregations


They are all collective nouns...

is must follow..not are


Am done,arguing

Hardebaryor:
Actually the former is the right answer sir. This is because they are performing an action.

E.g
The Club is playing
OR
The Club are playing
OR
The clubs are playing

sometimes, action words that stands as predicate don't determine the use of is/was/are/were
What determines it mostly is the object state, either in singular or plural

EngrBello:



E.g
The Club is playing
OR
The Club are playing
OR
The clubs are playing

sometimes, action words that stands as predicate don't determine the use of is/was/are/were
What determines it mostly is the object state, either in singular or plural

Sorry, do you mean club =singular clubs =plural

EngrBello:

Check that out.... Look at this examples ; Group. ; Groups Club. ; Clubs Congregation. : Congregations

They are all collective nouns...
is must follow..not are

Am done,arguing

the lord is your strength

EngrBello:



E.g
The Club is playing
OR
The Club are playing
OR
The clubs are playing

sometimes, action words that stands as predicate don't determine the use of is/was/are/were

What determines it mostly is the object state, either in singular or plural

The police is coming

The police are coming

Which is correct??

I'm sorry to say this but to naive English speakers, some words sound absurd but are actually correct.

You should go through notional concord

please where did y'all hear that we were to bring original jamb result on the exam day and are we to go to the jamb office to get that

EngrBello:

Check that out.... Look at this examples ; Group. ; Groups Club. ; Clubs Congregation. : Congregations

They are all collective nouns...
is must follow..not are

Am done,arguing

Enough said too.. u can choose the one u want.... Nice day,sir.

NaturalWoman:
Are there no Economics or Government students here?

It's totally heartbreaking

Government

oldfoolnigger:


Government

Oya, throw question make I catch am jare

Tell me the topics you've gone through

NaturalWoman:


The police is coming

The police are coming

Which is correct??

I'm sorry to say this but to naive English speakers, some words sound absurd but are actually correct.

You should go through notional concord

You need to learn and go through it very well first...
Uncountable noun is slightly different from collective noun
Police is an uncountable noun(though,its also a collective and verb too) but its not like congregation and club


Might sounded absurds to you....but your intonations matter