NUMS — Medical & Dental Entry Test

NUMS English — Grammar and Usage (Set 1)

Take the NUMS English — Grammar and Usage (Set 1): 30 multiple-choice questions (40 minutes) with instant scoring and a full answer review. Covers 30 NUMS…

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30 NUMS English

Sample questions with answers

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

Q1. Choose the correct option: Neither the doctor nor the nurses ___ aware of the change in the duty roster.
- A. were ✓
- B. was
- C. is
- D. has been
Answer: A. were
Explanation: With 'neither…nor', the verb agrees with the nearer subject; 'nurses' is plural, so 'were' is correct.
Q2. Choose the correct option: Each of the students ___ submitted the admission form.
- A. have
- B. are
- C. has ✓
- D. were
Answer: C. has
Explanation: 'Each' is singular, so it takes the singular verb 'has', regardless of the plural noun after 'of'.
Q3. Choose the correct option: She has been working at this hospital ___ 2019.
- A. from
- B. for
- C. by
- D. since ✓
Answer: D. since
Explanation: 'Since' is used with a point in time (2019) in the present perfect continuous; 'for' is used with a period of time.
Q4. Choose the correct option: If I ___ you, I would accept the scholarship offer.
- A. was being
- B. am
- C. had
- D. were ✓
Answer: D. were
Explanation: Unreal present conditionals use the subjunctive 'were' for all persons: 'If I were you…'.
Q5. Choose the correct option: By the time we reached the station, the train ___.
- A. had left ✓
- B. has left
- C. leaves
- D. will leave
Answer: A. had left
Explanation: An action completed before another past action ('we reached') takes the past perfect: 'had left'.

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Q6. Choose the correct article: He is ___ honest and hardworking man.
- A. no article needed
- B. a
- C. the
- D. an
Q7. Choose the correct option: The number of applicants for the entry test ___ increased this year.
- A. are
- B. were
- C. have
- D. has
Q8. Choose the correct preposition: Hamza is very good ___ solving numerical problems.
- A. in
- B. on
- C. with
- D. at
Q9. Choose the correct preposition: The heavy traffic prevented him ___ reaching the clinic on time.
- A. from
- B. to
- C. against
- D. of
Q10. Choose the correct option: The report ___ by the clerk yesterday afternoon.
- A. has typed
- B. was typed
- C. is typed
- D. typed
Q11. Choose the correct indirect form: He said, "I am tired today."
- A. He said that he is tired today.
- B. He said that I was tired that day.
- C. He said that he was tired that day.
- D. He said that he had been tired today.
Q12. Choose the correct option: I look forward to ___ you at the seminar.
- A. have met
- B. met
- C. meeting
- D. meet
Q13. Choose the correct option: If she had revised the syllabus properly, she ___ the test.
- A. will have passed
- B. had passed
- C. would have passed
- D. would pass
Q14. Choose the correct option: Of the two treatment plans, this one is the ___.
- A. more better
- B. best
- C. better
- D. most good
Q15. Choose the correct relative pronoun: The surgeon ___ operated on my father has thirty years of experience.
- A. which
- B. whom
- C. whose
- D. who
Q16. Choose the correct option: Hardly had he entered the examination hall ___ the bell rang.
- A. then
- B. when
- C. that
- D. than
Q17. Choose the correct option: No sooner had the lecture ended ___ the students rushed out.
- A. when
- B. than
- C. that
- D. then
Q18. Choose the correct question tag: She rarely comes late to class, ___?
- A. is she
- B. doesn't she
- C. isn't she
- D. does she
Q19. Choose the correct option: One of my closest friends ___ a dentist.
- A. were
- B. have been
- C. are
- D. is
Q20. Choose the correct option: It is high time we ___ for the hospital; visiting hours end soon.
- A. have left
- B. will leave
- C. leave
- D. left
Q21. Choose the correct modal: He ___ swim across the river when he was young, but now he cannot.
- A. must
- B. can
- C. could
- D. may
Q22. Choose the correct pronoun: Between you and ___, the result of the trial was disappointing.
- A. me
- B. I
- C. myself
- D. mine
Q23. Choose the correct option: This syrup tastes ___.
- A. bitter
- B. bitterly
- C. bitterness
- D. more bitterly
Q24. Choose the option that keeps the sentence parallel: In her free time she enjoys swimming, reading and ___.
- A. jogs
- B. jogging
- C. to jog
- D. jog
Q25. Choose the correct option: The senior doctor gave me some useful ___ about the interview.
- A. advice
- B. an advice
- C. advices
- D. advise
Q26. Choose the correct option: At sea level, pure water ___ at 100 °C.
- A. boiled
- B. boils
- C. is boiling
- D. has boiled
Q27. Choose the correct option: I ___ here for an hour, but the bus still has not arrived.
- A. have been waiting
- B. waited
- C. was waiting
- D. am waiting
Q28. Choose the correct option: Neither of the two answers ___ correct.
- A. were
- B. are
- C. have been
- D. is
Q29. Choose the correct option: ___ he was suffering from a fever, he attended the practical exam.
- A. Unless
- B. Because
- C. Although
- D. Despite
Q30. A student copied four lines from a laboratory report. Which line is written in the passive voice?
- A. The samples tested positive for bacteria.
- B. The technician was testing the samples carefully.
- C. The samples were tested in the laboratory.
- D. The technician tested the samples in the laboratory.