1. When you thought English was going to be your best subject.
2. When your teacher asks you to write an essay on how you spent your last holiday and you have to write about all the places you’ve never been to.
3. When you see “write a letter to the local government chairman of your community…” on your question paper.
4. When you ask your classmates to explain something to you and they’re speaking big grammar.
5. You, trying to understand the point of those summary passages.
6. When you still can’t differentiate between ‘its’ and ‘it’s’.
7. You trying to pronounce words like “discombobulate” correctly.
8. When you try to read the newspapers to improve your English and see ‘words’ like “feedbacks”.
9. The main reason you hated English Language in school.
10. When you try to form big grammar and end up shelling terribly.
I don mess up.
11. You when you try to say the ‘th’ in ‘mother’ and ‘they’ correctly.
12. When someone still comes to say you can’t use ‘will’ and ‘would’ whenever you like.
13. You trying to understand the difference between American English, British English and Nigerian English:
14. You trying to remember “I before E except after C”.
15. When they ask you to write an essay that ends with ‘it was the most unforgettable experience of my life’.
16. “House is to houses, but Mouse is to mice”.
17. When you hear that the plural of ‘chief’ is ‘chiefs’ but the plural of ‘thief’ is ‘thieves’.
18. When you still don’t get an A in English after all the wahala.
19. This perfect example of why English is just stress abeg.
