On this page you will find few practice question in English language (Registers) which will enhance your preparation for the forthcoming GCE Exam.
TOPIC: REGISTERS
Watch the video tutorial below, for detailed explanation of registers, then answer the questions that follows, below the video.
What are Registers?
Register often refers to the degree of formality of language, but in a more general sense it means the language used by a group of people who share similar work or interests, such as doctors or lawyers.
Register is often used to create a unique tone or style in a literary work. Literary language does not have to be formal. In fact, it can use formal and informal registers at any time. Sometimes, it uses both.
In every situation you encounter, you use speech appropriate to the person to whom you are speaking and his or her context. The language you use when talking to your friends is not the same language you would use when meeting someone as important as the Queen. This difference in language formality is called register.
We use the term ‘register’ to refer to particular varieties or styles of speaking and writing. Registers vary because the language is used for different purposes, in different contexts and for different audiences. For example, there is a legal register, a register of advertising, registers of banking and a register of weather forecasting. We commonly recognise registers because of their specialised vocabulary but also because of particular uses of grammar. We also use the term register to refer to whether language is being used formally or informally.
The six English language register definition levels
There are five types of English register we use in writing and speaking. We use them to maintain a consistently appropriate register in different aspects of our daily life.
However, there is a sixth register that we rarely use.
1. High formal
It is the level of language that you would use in spoken English on formal occasions to address the Queen, an archbishop, president, or prime minister.
It is also often used in legal correspondence, proceedings, and especially in a court of law.
2. Formal
You would use Formal language when you speak or write to your boss, a client, or write a transactional letter.
The formal language definition is sometimes called the consultative register. You use it when, for example, you are referring to or talking to your doctor and using the polite address of Dr.
3. Neutral
It is the formal or conventional language level you would use in transactional situations.
These could include business letters, report writing, business plans, marketing presentations, or speaking to a client.
It often uses the passive voice to avoid attribution, fault, or responsibility.
4. Informal
You use informal or casual register when you speak to or write emails and messages to friends, family, or work colleagues.
5. Vulgar
The vulgar definition is not the language of a smutty joke.
This intimate register refers to the type of language we use when we talk to immediate or close family members, very close friends, a child, or a family pet.
6. Frozen or static register
Although this article does not cover it, this is one more form of register.
It is language use that does not change due to custom or etiquette, particularly in printed or often repeated form.
Examples of frozen register include biblical quotations, oaths of office, prayers, or pledges of allegiance.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE: WAEC GCE PRACTICE QUESTIONS
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In the following passages the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in the below each passage, four options are offered in columns lettered A to D. choose the word that is the most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passages.
One of the indicators of -76- under development in this country is the backward state of the transport sector. This is typified by the poor state of the railway -77-. In advanced countries, commuter trains carry passengers from city and within suburbs. The -78- train goes a lot faster connecting major cities and even states; such trains have -79 only.
In the intra- city trains, it is only shelter and seats that are provided. There are no -80-. In some cases, and because of the long hours of service of inter-city or inter-state trains, -81- and -82- are available in addition to coaches.
Apart from the very fast electric trains, there are passenger trains that are -83- powered. There are others that use coal or steam as -84-. Some trains offer -85- services, transporting goods. Such trains stop at specific -86- to deliver goods or to refuel. Most trains have -87- to push or pull them to prevent them from turning around.
It is interesting to watch a modern-88- spring up and get completed in a matter of months. A few months ago, a building company brought some -89- to the virgin forest next to our school. The trees were -99-, the ground was cleared and -91-, and the workers brought out various -92- with which they measured a marked the -93-. Then the -94- was dug and the -95- were brought from somewhere else -96- was made from a mixture of sand cement and water, and the walls grew before our very eyes. Before the end of the second month, we realized it was not going to be a -97- but a storeyed building. The -98- was cast in only one day by the workers who -99- for the whole day. Thereafter things moved even faster. By the end of the third month, the whole -100- was in place.
76. In question numbered 76 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. structural
- B. infrastructural
- C. fiscal
- D. systematic
77. In question numbered 77 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. system
- B. framework
- C. industry
- D. business
78. In question numbered 78 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. intra-city
- B. in-city
- C. inter-city
- D. sub-city
79. In question numbered 79 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. wagons
- B. coaches
- C. cabins
- D. decks
80. In question numbered 80 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. bookshops and libraries
- B. gyms and clubs
- C. meals and refreahments
- D. parks and salons
81. In question numbered 81 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. dining cars
- B. lunch tables
- C. refectories
- D. bars
82. In question numbered 82 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. closets
- B. engine
- C. cloackrooms
- D. control suites
83. In question numbered 83 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. battery
- B. engine
- C. diesel
- D. solar
84. In question numbered 84 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. petrol
- B. alternative
- C. converter
- D. fuel
85. In question numbered 85 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. freight
- B. delivery
- C. postal
- D. courier
86. In question numbered 86 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. checkpoints
- B. duty-posts
- C. stations
- D. centres
87. In question numbered 87 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. gadgets
- B. locomotives
- C. compasses
- D. bearings
88. In question numbered 88 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. construction
- B. building
- C. erection
- D. fabrication
89. In question numbered 89 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. trailers
- B. bull-dozers
- C. tractors
- D. machines
90. In question numbered 90 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. felled
- B. pulled
- C. cut
- D. broken
91. In question numbered 91 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. levelled
- B. paved
- C. demolished
- D. destroyed
92. In question numbered 92 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. apparatus
- B. items
- C. machinery
- D. equipment
93. In question numbered 93 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. plan
- B. trenches
- C. ground
- D. space
94. In question numbered 94 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. base
- B. foundation
- C. pavement
- D. guitter
95. In question numbered 95 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. boreholes
- B. lintels
- C. fences
- D. blocks
96. In question numbered 96 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. concoction
- B. gravel
- C. mortar
- D. compound
97. In question numbered 97 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. basement
- B. mansion
- C. bungalow
- D. sky-scraper
98. In question numbered 98 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. roofing
- B. decking
- C. floor
- D. beam
99. In question numbered 99 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. struggled
- B. grumbled
- C. suffered
- D. toiled
100. In question numbered 100 above, choose the best option from letters A – D that best completes the gap.
- A. roof
- B. structure
- C. wall
- D. apartment
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