English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
Grammar Note
The boss had trouble making ~a headway~ (nonstandard).
The boss had trouble making ~headways~ (nonstandard).
The boss had trouble making headway (standard).
Can she recite the ~alphabets~ (nonstandard)?
Can she recite the alphabet (standard)? Alphabet means a set of letters or symbols in a fixed order used to represent the basic set of speech sounds of a language, especially the set of letters from A to Z. So, all the letters of a language make up its alphabet.
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