The school authority will have ______ to blame for selecting wrong prefects.

Here are the answers to the questions: 44. The school authority will have themselves to blame for selecting wrong prefects. The phrase "the school authority" refers to the individuals within the authority, making the plural reflexive pronoun "themselves" appropriate. B. themselves 45. A common figure of speech in poetry is onomatopoeia. This is the correct spelling of the figure of speech where words imitate the sounds they denote. D. onomatopoeia 46. Direct speech: "The man travels to Lagos every week," the boy said. Indirect speech: The boy said that the man travelled to Lagos every week. When converting direct speech to indirect speech with a past tense reporting verb ("said"), the present simple tense ("travels") shifts to the past simple tense ("travelled"). B. travelled 47. Most Nigerians have not imbibed maintenance culture. This is the correct spelling of the word "maintenance". C. maintenance 48. Your brother paid heavily to get you out of jail; therefore you should be grateful to him. "Therefore" is used to introduce a logical consequence or result. E. therefore 49. Liman has something to fall back on after his retirement. "Fall back on" is a phrasal verb meaning to rely on something when other things have failed or are unavailable. A. on 50. Which of the following words can be used with the prefix 'sub-' to form a new word? The prefix "sub-" means "under" or "below". "Submerge" means to put or sink below the surface. E. Merge 51. Apart from football, which other game do you play? "Apart from" is a common idiom meaning "besides" or "in addition to". C. from 52. One of the girls who sing well is my daughter. In the clause "who sing well," the relative pronoun "who" refers to "girls" (plural), so the verb "sing" must be plural to agree with it. B. sing 53. I lay on the beach for half an hour yesterday. "Yesterday" indicates a past action. "Lay" is the past tense of the verb "to lie" (meaning to recline). A. lay 54. Mrs Eden is satisfied with the new black linen dress her husband bought for her. The standard order of adjectives is Age (new), then Color (black), then Material (linen). C. new black linen That's 2 down. 3 left today — send the next one.