How to use 'many a' and 'a great deal of' in a sentence. How to pronounce 'impasse'

Good morning KIB earthlings.
Lets get down to brass tacks.

Let's look at the use of verbs. Yesterday someone brought a statement to me and enquired if it were correct.

'many a fellow knows the truth'
Many a driver ploughs this road daily'

'Many a teacher doesn't know how to English'.

All these sentences are correct.

According to Oxford dictionary,
Many a: ( formal: always used with a singular noun and a singular verb) means a large number of something.
E.g many a young person has experimented with drugs.

So, don't pluralise anything in the sentence because there is an 'A' already.

'Many a teachers like to flog their students ' is wrong.

'A great deal'
How do you use 'a great deal'?
A great deal takes a singular verb.
E.g A great deal of bananas is planted in the north.

'A great deal' takes a singular verb.

Finally, the pronunciation of impasse is /'ampa:s/
Not (impas)

It's not Enemity, it's Enmity.
Unkept is wrong(when used for humans ) I'd rather you use 'unkempt' and pronounce it as (unkemt) or (unkempt) / ʌnˈkɛm(p)t/.

Unkept also means untidy and it is basically used for things and places.

The class with King Ifey is done and dusted.

Ciao.

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Good morning beautiful students of KIB school. I am glad to see your beautiful faces. Before I get down to brass tacks on today's class, let me give the correct English expression for this Igbo word. Atita Nwa ngwere.

'be rest assured' is wrong. Find out why and how to pronounce 'Colonel

#ComeToClassWithKingIfey #WrongEnglishWeSpeak Good morning beautiful earthlings of King Ifey's blog(KIB). You all are officially KIB students😀😀. Welcome to the permanent site. You can rest assured your spoken English will get an unprecedented make-over right here on KIB. Alright let's get down to brass tacks. Today, we are looking at the idiom Rest assured What does it mean

Do you say 'talk more of' or 'talk less of'? Also, how to pronounce 'parliament'

My beautiful KIB students, today, you will be happy learning the correct way to express yourselves. Nigerians have a way of changing typical English expressions to suit them. Someone still had to argue with me that the English expression 'Better the devil you know than the devil you don't " is so wrong and does not make sense. He opines that angel should be there. He forgets that English can be quite illogical to our Nigerian minds. Lol. People say things like. 'He has not even proposed talk more of walking down the aisle with me' 'He does not have a car, talk less a house" Well these two expressions or collocations are not common in British and American English. Here are the universal conventional English collocations for Nigerian English's 'Talk more of' and 'Talk less of', #LetAlone 'Let alone' is used to indicate that something is far less likely or suitable than something else already mentioned. E.g ...

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