Syllabus content and objectives
Official JAMB Hausa outline · Section A: Harshe (Language)
Content
Word classes, including nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections and ideophones.
Objective
Analyse the processes governing word combination to form phrases, clauses and sentences in Hausa; detect linguistic errors in grammar; construct grammatical sentences for effective communication.
Content
Grammatical categories, including tense and aspect (general and relative past, general and relative continuous, first and second future, habitual); mood (subjunctive and negative); gender (masculine, feminine and neuter); and number (singular and plural).
Objective
Use appropriate tenses in spoken and written Hausa; use appropriate gender and number in spoken and written Hausa; detect linguistic errors in grammar.
Content
Sentence structure, including verbal sentences; nominal phrase plus verbal phrase and their components; non-verbal sentences consisting of nominal phrase plus stabilizer, nominal phrase plus complement plus stabilizer, and nominal phrases plus continuous frame (yana/yake) with or without da plus nominal phrase.
Objective
Analyse the processes governing word combination to form phrases, clauses and sentences in Hausa; recognize ideas or thoughts in written form; construct grammatical sentences for effective communication; distinguish between nominal and verbal phrases.
Content
Sentence types, including simple, compound and complex sentences.
Objective
Distinguish between types of sentence structure; distinguish between types of sentences; construct grammatical sentences for effective communication.
Content
Clauses, including relative and subjunctive clauses, and their functions as main and subordinate clauses.
Objective
Compare types of clauses; analyse the processes governing word combination to form phrases, clauses and sentences in Hausa.
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