NUMS — Medical & Dental Entry Test

NUMS English — Grammar and Usage (Set 3)

Take the NUMS English — Grammar and Usage (Set 3): 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: If she ___ her medication regularly last year, she would not be in hospital now.
- A. took
- B. had taken ✓
- C. would take
- D. has taken
Answer: B. had taken
Explanation: A past condition with a present result is a mixed conditional: 'If + past perfect, would + base verb', so 'had taken'.
Q2. Complete the sentence: Had the nurse ___ the error earlier, the dose would have been corrected in time.
- A. noticed ✓
- B. notice
- C. noticing
- D. would notice
Answer: A. noticed
Explanation: 'Had + subject + past participle' is the inverted third conditional (= If the nurse had noticed), so 'noticed'.
Q3. Choose the correct option: She said that she ___ to the clinic the day before.
- A. goes
- B. has gone
- C. will go
- D. had gone ✓
Answer: D. had gone
Explanation: In reported speech a past-time reference ('the day before') needs the past perfect: 'had gone'.
Q4. Select the correct word: The surgeon to ___ the case was referred is Dr Hina.
- A. which
- B. whose
- C. who
- D. whom ✓
Answer: D. whom
Explanation: After the preposition 'to' a person is referred to with the object form 'whom'.
Q5. Fill in the blank: The boy cut ___ while peeling an apple.
- A. himself ✓
- B. his self
- C. hisself
- D. him
Answer: A. himself
Explanation: The subject and object are the same person, so the reflexive pronoun 'himself' is needed.

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Q6. Choose the correct option: The nurse ___ the head of the bed to help the patient breathe more easily.
- A. rose
- B. arose
- C. risen
- D. raised
Q7. Fill in the blank: The agreement was signed ___ the hospital and the medical-supplies company.
- A. among
- B. along
- C. between
- D. within
Q8. Choose the correct option: The room was ___ small to hold all the candidates.
- A. too
- B. enough
- C. very
- D. so
Q9. Complete the sentence: It was ___ a difficult paper that hardly anyone finished it.
- A. too
- B. very
- C. so
- D. such
Q10. Choose the correct option: No sooner had the bell rung ___ the students rushed out of the hall.
- A. then
- B. that
- C. when
- D. than
Q11. Choose the correct option: Not only ___ the entry test, but he also topped the merit list.
- A. did he pass
- B. passed he
- C. he passed
- D. he did pass
Q12. Choose the correct option: The harder you study, ___ you will score in the test.
- A. better
- B. the better
- C. the best
- D. more better
Q13. Which is the correct passive form of: 'You must submit the form by Friday.'
- A. The form must been submitted by Friday.
- B. The form must be submitted by Friday.
- C. The form must submitted by Friday.
- D. The form must be submit by Friday.
Q14. Which is the correct passive form of the command: 'Open the window.'
- A. Let the window is opened.
- B. Let the window opened.
- C. The window be opened.
- D. Let the window be opened.
Q15. Which is the correct passive form of: 'The technician is testing the samples.'
- A. The samples are being test by the technician.
- B. The samples are being tested by the technician.
- C. The samples were being tested by the technician.
- D. The samples are tested by the technician.
Q16. Which is the correct indirect form of: She said to him, "Where are you going?"
- A. She asked him where he was going.
- B. She asked him where was he going.
- C. She asked him where he is going.
- D. She told him where he was going.
Q17. Which is the correct indirect form of: He said, "Alas! I have lost my wallet."
- A. He exclaimed with sorrow that he has lost his wallet.
- B. He exclaimed with sorrow if he had lost his wallet.
- C. He exclaimed with sorrow that I had lost his wallet.
- D. He exclaimed with sorrow that he had lost his wallet.
Q18. Choose the correct preposition: The patient is allergic ___ penicillin.
- A. against
- B. with
- C. to
- D. from
Q19. Choose the correct preposition: The family accused the hospital ___ negligence.
- A. of
- B. for
- C. with
- D. on
Q20. Choose the correct option: The meeting has been put ___ until next week because the chairman is unwell.
- A. away
- B. off
- C. out
- D. down
Q21. Choose the correct option: The patient, ___ from a high fever, was admitted at midnight.
- A. suffered
- B. to suffer
- C. suffers
- D. suffering
Q22. Choose the correct option: I wish I ___ more time to revise last week.
- A. had had
- B. would have
- C. had
- D. have
Q23. Choose the correct option: The doctor suggested that he ___ complete rest for a week.
- A. take
- B. taking
- C. takes
- D. took
Q24. Choose the correct option: Either the nurses or the doctor ___ responsible for the error.
- A. are
- B. were
- C. have been
- D. is
Q25. Choose the correct option: A large number of applicants ___ appeared for the interview.
- A. have
- B. was
- C. is
- D. has
Q26. Choose the correct option: Two-thirds of the syllabus ___ already been covered.
- A. has
- B. were
- C. have
- D. are
Q27. Choose the correct option: He is the only one of the students who ___ passed every paper.
- A. are
- B. have
- C. were
- D. has
Q28. Choose the correct option: We have very ___ time before the paper starts.
- A. little
- B. many
- C. a little
- D. few
Q29. Choose the correct question tag: Let's start the revision now, ___?
- A. won't we
- B. don't we
- C. will we
- D. shall we
Q30. Choose the correct option: You ___ see a doctor about that persistent cough.
- A. had better
- B. would better
- C. have better
- D. had better to