i) I bought three pens for thirty shillings.
All cost thirty shillings.
ii) I bought three pens at thirty shillings.
Each costs thirty shillings
marto answered the question on October 8, 2019 at 07:08
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i) “Can I serve you with lemonade?”
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Change the following sentences into reported speech
i) “Can I serve you with lemonade?”
ii) “Why did the politician make such a statement in public?”
iii) “Go and collect all the used apparatus.”
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October 7, 2019
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i) Yesterday I met a beautiful girl. I had never met her before.
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Join the following sentences using a relative pronoun:
i) Yesterday I met a beautiful girl. I had never met her before.
ii) Mrs. Hart left her baby with a neighbor. She could rely on the neighbor.
iii) Munyao started three projects last year. He has completed two of them
Date posted:
October 7, 2019
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Rewrite the following sentences according to instructions given after each. Do not change the meaning
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Rewrite the following sentences according to instructions given after each. Do not change the meaning
i) My grandmother could not cultivate her shamba anymore
She realized how old she had become. (Rewrite as one sentence beginning: Not…)
ii) Some pupils are not used to hardwork. (End with…hard).
iii) As Marion was walking to the bus stop, a thief snatched her handbag. (Begin: Walking…..)
Date posted:
October 7, 2019
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The career market is full of opportunities. Gone are the days when we had ‘either… or’ career choices.
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Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow
Choosing a career
The career market is full of opportunities. Gone are the days when we had ‘either… or’ career choices. The times when women, for example, chose between only nursing, teaching and secretarial work are long gone. The explosion in communication technology, and the liberalization and globalization of the world economy, has ensured that there is no longer a dearth of career choices. Today, colleges and Universities offer a wide range of training opportunities to high school graduates. This has made choosing a career an involving process. It has also given rise to the need for career counselling.
When choosing a career, whether you have the help of a career counselor or not, there are several factors that you should consider. These include your abilities or talents, your interests, your priorities and the available opportunities in the job market.
The skills required in a particular career and the ability to gain them through education must be considered when choosing careers. Becoming a doctor, for instance, requires extensive education and training, and many years of educational commitment. In addition to the compulsory subjects, the academic background required for this career is good grades in chemistry and biology at secondary school level. If your ability in these subjects is just average, you would be overstretching your luck to enroll for a Bachelor of Medicine degree course. In the past, students have chosen to pursue training in engineering, even when their ability to handle physics and mathematics was low. This, in many cases, has made them drop out of the class mid-course. The waste of time and resources would have been avoided if they had considered a career that did not require the ability to handle mathematics and physics well.
There are times when people have been driven to choose a particular career because of the salary and prestige associated with jobs in this field. At times, the desire to take certain courses comes from within the individual, but most times, individuals feel pressured by peers or family to take certain courses. Joining a career in which you have no interest in is a recipe for all dull life since you will spend more of your working hours doing something you do not like. Your career does not necessarily have to be your passion, but it should not bore you to death either. You can work out your interests by identifying the subjects you enjoy most at school, or the topics that are of interest to you and for which you take the initiative to read on your own.
It is true that many young people are attracted more by the social mobility that the job might provide than by their interest in the career. However, research has found that money does not play as big a role in job satisfaction as many people think. Of course we all have to make a living, but if you do not like your job, it does not matter how much you get paid to do it. What does matter is how well a career choice matches your values.
Questions
i) What has created the necessity for career counselling?
ii) Why is one’s ability an important factor in career choice?
iii) Why do you think the writer cites engineering in the passage?
iv) According to the passage which career should a person who values variety choose?
v) Make notes on the importance of knowing the availability of jobs in the career field one wants to join.
vi) What evidence is given in the passage to support the statement “Money does not play a big role in job satisfaction?”
vii) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage.
a) Liberalization
b) Dearth
c) Social mobility
d) Collaboration
Date posted:
October 7, 2019
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Identify the word with a different sound
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Identify the word with a different sound
i) excited.............packet...........laughed
ii) leisure...............measure...........pressure
iii) echoes.............arch.............monarchy
iv) leaf..........dough.................rough
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October 7, 2019
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(i) The teachers are being interviewed by the director.(Rewrite using ‘interviewing)
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Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each.
(i) The teachers are being interviewed by the director.(Rewrite using ‘interviewing)
(ii) Paul said that he had spoken to his brother the previous week.(Rewrite to end with ‘last week)
(iii) Fishing near the South Coast is a holiday treat. (Underline the noun that has been used as an adjective)
(iv) That behaviour is impossible to correct.(Replace the underlined word with one word)
Date posted:
October 3, 2019
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Along time ago there was old man whose name was Ramogi. This old man had two sons. These two sons called Labon’go and Gipir had...
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Along time ago there was old man whose name was Ramogi. This old man had two sons. These two sons called Labon’go and Gipir had wives. Labon’go was the elder of these two. When Ramogi died, Labon’go became the chief of the homestead. He was to look after his father’s property, including the family’s sacred spear.
There was a lot of forest land and elephants were in plenty. The elephants used to come and destroy crops. One day, when Labon’go was out hunting, an elephant came near the homestead and destroyed some of the crops. Gipir, who was still at home, was so furious that he quickly, without thinking, picked up the family spear and threw it at the elephant. The spear stuck into the elephant’s side and the elephantescape. The elephant ran with the spear until it reached the forest. When Labon’go came back from hunting ,his wife told him about the loss of his spear. She explained to him how an elephant had damaged the crops and how Gipir had bravely driven it away losing the sacred spear in the process. On hearing this Labong’o angrily went straight to his brother’s house and and demanded the spear , saying, Gipir, see that you return the family sacred spear and make sure it is that particular one that you threw at the elephant”Gipir tried to appease his brother by making beautiful spear but Labon’go refused to accept them.
One day Gipir told his wife, “ Please prepare for me a lot of food. I have a long journey to make.” The wife prepared for him a lot of food and Labon’go set out. After a long, dangerous journey, in which his life was threatened by wild animals and huge poisonous snakes, he reached a forest called gondliech, the home of elephants. In the forest he met an old woman. This old woman asked him, “What have you come to do here in the forest?”.Gipir told her what had happened. He told her how he had pierced an elephant with the sacred family spear, and that the elephant had run with it into the forest.
The woman became angry and said “so it is you who is killing my elephants?” Gipir replied politely and said that all the he wanted was the sacred spear of the family , if she could kindly help him to find it. The old woman then showed him where she kept spears. He searched among them and found the spear that Labon’go wanted. The old woman then gaveGipirsome beads to take to his wife.
When Gipir reached home he immediately took the spear to Labon’go. Labon’go was very happy and he thanked him.
Next morning Gipir spread out the beads he had been given by the old woman, in preparation for his wife to string them. Everyone in the homestead came out to see the beautiful beads .Labon’go’s child was playing where the beads were being strung. Without being noticed, he took one and swallowed it. Gipir knew that his time for revenge had come. until the child excreted. The excrement was searched thoroughly, but no bead was found . This action was repeated several days of trying and failing. Labon’go asked Gipir to cut the child open and take his bead. Gipir realized that this was a trap and he refused. He knew that if he killed the child and took out the bead Labon’go would certainly say that he wanted Gipir’s child.
Meanwhile Labon’go grew tied of the continual reminder from Gipir that he wanted his bead back, just as the demand for the sacred spear had tired Gipir.
When Labon’go killed and cut up the child, the bead was found hidden in the linings of the stomach. The child was buried. When this happened Gipir was forced to shift from his homestead to another land.
Labon’go also moved and they never saw one another again.
“I hope I grew and attain the height of the tree at my uncle’s place.
(a) How did Gipir lose the sacred spear?
(b) Do you think Labon’go’s demands were justified? Give a reason to support your response
(c) What does the chief’s demand reveal about his character?
(d) With an illustration for each, describe any two character traits of Gipir.
(e) What role does the old woman play in this story?
(f) Identify and explain any two features of style used in this narrative
(g) What is the moral lesson of this story?
(h) There was a lot of forest land and elephants were plenty
(Begin: Not only..............................)
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October 3, 2019
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“ Let them show us that my daughter is not going to starve in that wasteland they call a home”.
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“ Let them show us that my daughter is not going to starve in that wasteland they call a home”. They trooped back into the hut and the negotiation began in earnest. “ Brothers, people of Sakwa, we are pleased to welcome you to Yimbo. It is customary because of the gooddak between us, for you to marry our daughters and we yours. We are therefore more than neighbours , we have great wat between us because of the intermingling of blood though this has not occurred between our two lines so there is no danger of brother marrying sister- a great taboo.
“Since you” are our brothers, we will not make things difficult for you. Here , he stopped to take a
sip of kong’o and you could have heard the ants talk, so great was silence.
However, nobody was fooled by his sweet words.
He continued enjoying immensely the tension he was creating “Our daughter ,
AdoyoObanda is a great beauty whose assets have been praised and sung by many a nyatiti- singer
from here to chumbuKombit, from Sakwa to LokaNam. She is as fleet as a gazelle and her flying feet
have been incorporated into the sayings of our village so that mothers sending their daughters on
errands tell them to run like Adoyo of the flying feet. She has been taught all the requirements of
chik. She is a very apt pupil, and will therefore not bring shame and ruin to her husband by improper
conduct.
Her antecedents are peerless for she can trace her bloodline clear to Ramogi our great father
and her blood is pure for we have always taken care to marry correctly. She is also the eldest
daughter of our great chief, a man whose fame is known throughout the land. After careful consideration, we have therefore decided that thirty head of cattle should be the proper bride price
Was that an inaudible gasp from someone at the back? Chief OwuorKembosignalled to his uncle and
the old man spoke.
(a) Place this excerpt in its immediate context
(b) Sate the importance of this ceremony
(c) Illustrate any two themes brought out in this passage
(d) Identify and explain any one feature of style used in the passage
(e) Cite evidence of Akoko’s attributes referred to in the passage
(f) “......................................we have therefore decided that thirty heads of cattle should be the bride price.” From elsewhere in the novel , why does this become a source of conflict and with what consequences?
(g) “ Let them show us that my daughter is not going to starve in that wasteland they call home.”
Explain chief Odero Gonni’s character brought about by this statement
(h) However, nobody was fooled by his sweet word. (Change into active voice.)
Date posted:
October 2, 2019
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Fill in the most suitable preposition.
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Fill in the most suitable preposition.
i. The boy went ............the classroom.
ii. She is worried....................her exams.
iii. Let me pay ..............Tom.
iv. I have been expelled .............school for my bad behavior
Date posted:
September 30, 2019
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Write the correct form of the adjective given in brackets.
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Write the correct form of the adjective given in brackets.
i. The artist’s fingers were ............ than Juan’s. (sensitive)
ii. Vera used the ............. materials she could. (good)
iii. Musa ground the colours into the ................... powder. (fine)
iv. The .................... moment came when the principal asked Gifter to draw his picture. (exciting)
Date posted:
September 30, 2019
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Use the most appropriate form of the word in brackets to fill the blank space.
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Use the most appropriate form of the word in brackets to fill the blank space.
i. He is my .............. friend. (child)
ii. The teacher expected all of us to demonstrate .............. (kind)
iii. ...............will make you successful in life. (honest)
iv. What a provocative .................that was! (laugh)
Date posted:
September 30, 2019
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Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given. Do not change their meanings.
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Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given. Do not change their meanings.
i. I go to church every week.
Replace the underlined words with one word.
ii. Not all the times I travel to Mombasa.
iii. I drank the porridge without sharing with anyone.
Replace the group of underlined words with a single word
iv. I gave he a mango?
Correct the mistake
Date posted:
September 30, 2019
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Give the silent letter in: i. Debtor ii. Asthma iii. Wren iv. Catalogue v. Guess
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Give the silent letter in:
i. Debtor
ii. Asthma
iii. Wren
iv. Catalogue
v. Guess
Date posted:
September 30, 2019
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Fill in the more suitable word in the space provided.
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Fill in the more suitable word in the space provided.
i. Eat that last green ............ in that plate. (been, bean)
ii. Are we ............ to go to the church? (aloud, allowed)
iii. Push me ......... on the swing. (higher, hire)
iv. My skirt is too big for my ............ (waist, waste)
v. I did not ...........that you were coming. (know, no)
Date posted:
September 30, 2019
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Read the riddling convention below and then answer questions that follow
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Read the riddling convention below and then answer questions that follow.
Oguma: I have a riddle!
Tonny: Throw it.
Oguma:What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?
Basil:Glass.
Tonny: Plate.
Oguma: You both are wrong. Give me a city.
Tonny: We have given you Kisumu.
Oguma: The answer is silence.
i. Name the:
I. Respondent
II. Challenger
ii. Identify the following parts of the convention.
I. Prize
II. Guess
III. Solution
Date posted:
September 30, 2019
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Read the passage below and then fill in the blank spaces with the most suitable words. Use only ONE word in each space.
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Read the passage below and then fill in the blank spaces with the most suitable words. Use only ONE word in each space.
We are often advised to be confident; confidence comes when we feel passionately about what we perform, what we have achieved, and what we can offer.
Lack of 1....................can hinder a lot of things, ranging from how you get ahead in your career to the number of skills you are able to acquire. It is a determining factor in the way you direct 2............... career. Confidence is conveyed from inner to the 3..................through the words you speak and the posture you assume. Building confidence is 4.............. a one day affair. Neither does it take other people to build your confidence.
5.....................remember an interview I once conducted for secretaries, and the memory of one woman is intact. She stammered from the point she entered the office 6................. the moment she left. Thinking that it was interview jitters, we called 7..................again, based on her technical qualifications rather than her presentation. She presented 8................... same problem. We settled on a different candidate because confidence was a key qualification 9.............the job which involved dealing 10............... clients and colleagues.
Date posted:
September 30, 2019
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'Love all, trust none.' Show how this is portrayed using illustrations from the play, 'A Doll’s House.'
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'Love all, trust none.' Show how this is portrayed using illustrations from the play, 'A Doll’s House.'
Date posted:
September 30, 2019
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Rewrite the sentences below with the adjective in their correct order.
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Rewrite the sentences below with the adjective in their correct order.
1. .A designer is waiting to interview a dark Rwandese tall tailor.
2. We gave Kamau some heavy new sports grey shoes.
3. The company sold their black mahogany oval Turkish table
Date posted:
September 30, 2019
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Join each of the following pairs of sentences into one sentence using the phrase given in brackets.
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Join each of the following pairs of sentences into one sentence using the phrase given in brackets.
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a.James is more responsible than his brother.
b. James is the last born . (although)
2
a. Onyango met the woman.
b . Onyango wanted to marry the woman’s daughter. ( whose)
3
a. The woman read a newspaper
b. The man prepared a meal. (while)
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September 30, 2019
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Identify the silent letters in the words below.
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Identify the silent letters in the words below.
History
Debt
Psychology
Yacht
Condemn
Date posted:
September 30, 2019
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