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EVOLUTION  OF  WRITING: Origin and Development of Script Arts (Extracted from the book,  Reminiscence ) by Onyeji Nnaji I grew up in the part of the world where everything said by the mouth or scribbled by hands on the ground is attached great importance because, as the elders would say; they all have meanings. By this reason, as children, we became fixated and attracted to the several body artistic designs and marks on different walls, admiring them with the wishes that we had known how to scribble them like those people who are older than us. This formed the fundamental relevance I developed from childhood for scripts and the arts in them. The relevance of scripted art is not just the beauty it carries. Of course, one that is overtaken by the beauty in any scripted art as we were those day as children will never take notice or understand the underlying meaning in it. For, as commonly known, every scripted art is designed for the sole purpose of bringing informat...

A conjunction is a part of speech that joins words, phrases and clauses together. Beyond the function of uniting words, phrases and clauses together, conjunctions can as well join paragraphs together. Examples of the roles of conjunctions are seen in the sentences below: Uduak and Akpan are friends. Andrew is fair in complexion while his son is dark. Chike as well as the other boys have all left for the river. Grammatically, the definition is correct, considering the sentences above. Without the help of conjunctions, the above sentences would be realised in fragments. From this role which is invariably unique from other parts of speech, we may define a conjunction as the invariable grammatical particle that conjuncts lexical properties and other materials relevant for language analysis. Conjunctions unify or create unity among lexical properties, particularly nouns and pronouns. (9.1) TYPES OF CONJUNCTIONS:          ...

    CATEGORIES OF THE ENGLISH TENSE One of the features of verbs is that they show time. This involves the use of series of verb forms to express or indicate time in various sentences. Tenses are used to establish a relationship between verbs and the time they are used in sentences. In other words, the time when an action is performed determines the type of verb form to be used. These verb forms are used in varying forms to show time in the present, future and past. These may be represented thus:                                                    Tenses                         Future       ...