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You, S/He: a Language Test in Time of Strife

Stephen Derwent Partington (2008-02-07)

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/African_Writers/45991

Rewrite this sentence as a question:

I should kill you.


Next, correct this split infinitive:

To clearly know what’s wrong.


Reverse the pronouns in this sentence:

You’ll forgive me.



The infinitive of Love is:

Love; To Love; Be Loved; Despise?


Note down five synonyms for Neighbour

and five antonyms for Hate.


Select a word from those in brackets

and insert it in this sentence:

I _______ my fellow humans

(Murder; Rape; Displace; Respect.)


Last: if a Person is the key to peace

determine if it’s I or You or S/He

(tick any one, or two, or three.)


*Stephen Derwent Partington, is the Kwani? poetry editor and a member of the Concerned Kenyan Writers Initiative.

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