NUMS — Medical & Dental Entry Test

NUMS English — Grammar and Usage (Set 2)

Take the NUMS English — Grammar and Usage (Set 2): 30 multiple-choice questions (40 minutes) with instant scoring and a full answer review. Covers 30 NUMS…

What this test covers

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: The cattle ___ grazing in the field behind the veterinary hospital.
- A. is
- B. was
- C. are ✓
- D. has been
Answer: C. are
Explanation: 'Cattle' is always plural in form and meaning, so it takes a plural verb.
Q2. Choose the correct option: Bread and butter ___ his usual breakfast before the morning ward round.
- A. were
- B. is ✓
- C. are
- D. have been
Answer: B. is
Explanation: 'Bread and butter' names a single dish, so it takes a singular verb.
Q3. Choose the correct option: Mathematics ___ my favourite subject in school.
- A. were
- B. was ✓
- C. have been
- D. are
Answer: B. was
Explanation: Subject names ending in -s, such as mathematics and physics, are singular.
Q4. Choose the correct option: The patient ___ for two hours when the surgeon finally arrived.
- A. is waiting
- B. was waited
- C. had been waiting ✓
- D. has been waiting
Answer: C. had been waiting
Explanation: An action continuing up to a point in the past is expressed by the past perfect continuous.
Q5. Choose the correct option: By next June, she ___ her house job at the teaching hospital.
- A. has completed
- B. will be complete
- C. completes
- D. will have completed ✓
Answer: D. will have completed
Explanation: An action that will be finished before a stated future time takes the future perfect.

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Q6. Choose the correct option: Look! The water in the beaker ___.
- A. boiled
- B. has boiled
- C. boils
- D. is boiling
Q7. Choose the correct option: If the ambulance had arrived sooner, the patient ___ survived.
- A. had
- B. would
- C. will have
- D. would have
Q8. Choose the correct option: Unless you ___ harder, you will not clear the entry test.
- A. will work
- B. work
- C. would work
- D. worked
Q9. Choose the correct option: He is ___ university student from Quetta.
- A. a
- B. an
- C. no article
- D. the
Q10. Choose the correct option: ___ Indus is the longest river in Pakistan.
- A. The
- B. no article
- C. A
- D. An
Q11. Choose the correct option: Thousands of children ___ against polio in this province every year.
- A. are vaccinated
- B. are vaccinating
- C. vaccinate
- D. have vaccinated
Q12. Which is the correct passive form of: 'Who wrote this prescription?'
- A. By whom was this prescription written?
- B. By whom was written this prescription?
- C. By whom this prescription was written?
- D. Who was this prescription written?
Q13. Which is the correct indirect form of: The teacher said to me, "Have you finished your assignment?"
- A. The teacher asked me if I had finished my assignment.
- B. The teacher asked me had I finished my assignment.
- C. The teacher asked me that I had finished my assignment.
- D. The teacher said me whether I have finished my assignment.
Q14. Which is the correct indirect form of: She said, "Please close the window."
- A. She said to close the window please.
- B. She requested me to close the window.
- C. She told that I should close the window.
- D. She requested that close the window.
Q15. Choose the correct option: The doctor made him ___ the medicine before meals.
- A. to take
- B. taken
- C. taking
- D. take
Q16. Choose the correct option: She is used to ___ long hours in the emergency department.
- A. worked
- B. working
- C. work
- D. have worked
Q17. Choose the correct option: Karachi is ___ city in Pakistan.
- A. the larger
- B. the largest
- C. more large
- D. largest
Q18. Choose the correct option: This textbook is ___ than the one we used last year.
- A. more better
- B. more good
- C. best
- D. much better
Q19. Choose the correct option: This is the laboratory ___ the vaccine was first tested.
- A. where
- B. which
- C. whose
- D. whom
Q20. Choose the correct option: The student ___ project won the science fair has been offered a scholarship.
- A. who
- B. whom
- C. whose
- D. which
Q21. Choose the correct option: Not only the students but also the principal ___ present at the ceremony.
- A. were
- B. are
- C. was
- D. have been
Q22. Choose the correct option: Let's go to the library, ___?
- A. won't we
- B. don't we
- C. will you
- D. shall we
Q23. Choose the correct option: I wish I ___ the answer to that question yesterday.
- A. had known
- B. knew
- C. would know
- D. know
Q24. Choose the correct option: You ___ smoke in the operating theatre; it is strictly forbidden.
- A. would not
- B. might not
- C. must not
- D. need not
Q25. Choose the correct option: She sings ___ than her sister.
- A. sweeter
- B. more sweet
- C. more sweetly
- D. most sweetly
Q26. Choose the correct option: He divided his savings ___ his three sons.
- A. between
- B. with
- C. within
- D. among
Q27. Choose the correct option: The patient was suffering ___ a high fever.
- A. with
- B. by
- C. of
- D. from
Q28. Choose the correct option: He has ___ friends, so he never feels lonely.
- A. few
- B. little
- C. a few
- D. a little
Q29. Choose the correct option: The police ___ arrested the man who stole the hospital's ambulance.
- A. have
- B. is
- C. has
- D. was
Q30. Choose the correct option: She speaks English as fluently ___ a native speaker.
- A. so
- B. as
- C. like
- D. than