ECAT — Engineering College Admission Test (UET)

ECAT English — Tenses and Subject-Verb Agreement (Set 4)

Take the ECAT English — Tenses and Subject-Verb Agreement (Set 4): 30 multiple-choice questions (40 minutes) with instant scoring and a full answer…

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30 ECAT English

Sample questions with answers

The first 5 questions of this test, with the correct answer and explanation.

Q1. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Last Sunday I ___ the Lahore Museum with my cousins.
- A. had visited
- B. have visited
- C. visit
- D. visited ✓
Answer: D. visited
Explanation: 'Last Sunday' is a finished past time, so the simple past is needed.
Q2. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Plants ___ carbon dioxide from the air during photosynthesis.
- A. have absorbed
- B. absorb ✓
- C. are absorbing
- D. absorbed
Answer: B. absorb
Explanation: A general scientific fact is expressed in the simple present.
Q3. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Mumps ___ a contagious disease that mostly affects children.
- A. is ✓
- B. are
- C. were
- D. have been
Answer: A. is
Explanation: Names of diseases ending in -s (mumps, measles) take a singular verb.
Q4. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The poor ___ in need of our help.
- A. has been
- B. is
- C. was
- D. are ✓
Answer: D. are
Explanation: 'The + adjective' referring to a class of people is plural, so 'are'.
Q5. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: More than one candidate ___ complained about the unfair marking.
- A. have
- B. were
- C. had been
- D. has ✓
Answer: D. has
Explanation: 'More than one' takes a singular verb even though it suggests a plural meaning.

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Q6. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The quality of the apples sold in this market ___ very poor.
- A. were being
- B. are
- C. have been
- D. is
Q7. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Hardly had the speaker sat down when the audience ___ to clap.
- A. began
- B. begins
- C. had begun
- D. has begun
Q8. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: This is the most interesting novel I ___ so far.
- A. have read
- B. am reading
- C. had read
- D. read
Q9. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: It is the first time Hina ___ a plane, so she is rather nervous.
- A. is flying in
- B. has flown in
- C. flew in
- D. had flown in
Q10. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Each of the two roads ___ to the village.
- A. have led
- B. leads
- C. lead
- D. are leading
Q11. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Since the age of ten, Faisal ___ chess every evening.
- A. played
- B. has been playing
- C. is playing
- D. had played
Q12. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Our teacher always reminds us that the Earth ___ round the Sun once a year.
- A. was revolving
- B. revolved
- C. had revolved
- D. revolves
Q13. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: At this time tomorrow, we ___ over the Arabian Sea on our way to Dubai.
- A. will have flown
- B. will be flying
- C. have flown
- D. will fly
Q14. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: A great deal of money ___ spent on the new stadium.
- A. was
- B. have been
- C. were
- D. are
Q15. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: So far this season, our team ___ four matches.
- A. wins
- B. has won
- C. had won
- D. won
Q16. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: When I switched on the television, the match ___ for twenty minutes.
- A. went on
- B. had been going on
- C. has been going on
- D. was going on
Q17. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The bridge ___ when the flood swept through the valley, so it was never finished.
- A. was built
- B. was being built
- C. had been built
- D. is being built
Q18. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: He behaves as if he ___ the owner of the whole building.
- A. was being
- B. were
- C. has been
- D. is
Q19. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: I would rather you ___ in the library, as other students are studying.
- A. not talking
- B. don't talk
- C. won't talk
- D. didn't talk
Q20. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: After the guests ___, we cleared the table and washed the dishes.
- A. have left
- B. leave
- C. had left
- D. were leaving
Q21. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Physics ___ the study of matter, energy and their interactions.
- A. have been
- B. is
- C. were
- D. are
Q22. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Not one of the answers on the sheet ___ correct.
- A. have been
- B. were
- C. are being
- D. was
Q23. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: A pair of scissors ___ on the shelf beside the sewing machine.
- A. is
- B. were being
- C. are
- D. have been
Q24. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: My uncle ___ in the bank for twenty years before he finally resigned.
- A. had been working
- B. was working
- C. has been working
- D. is working
Q25. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The news about the floods ___ alarming, and people are worried.
- A. have been
- B. were
- C. is
- D. are
Q26. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: He told me that he ___ in Multan the previous night.
- A. is
- B. had been
- C. was being
- D. has been
Q27. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: While the teacher was explaining the theorem, two students ___ notes and one was sleeping.
- A. were taking
- B. had taken
- C. are taking
- D. took
Q28. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The sum of the three angles of a triangle ___ 180°.
- A. are
- B. were
- C. is
- D. have been
Q29. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Neither the principal nor the teachers ___ aware of the sudden change in the date sheet.
- A. has been
- B. was
- C. is being
- D. were
Q30. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: I ___ Usman since we were in primary school, so I know him very well.
- A. know
- B. am knowing
- C. knew
- D. have known