NUMS — Medical & Dental Entry Test

NUMS English — Grammar and Usage (Set 6)

Take the NUMS English — Grammar and Usage (Set 6): 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: She would rather ___ at home than go to the crowded bazaar.
- A. to stay
- B. stayed
- C. stay ✓
- D. staying
Answer: C. stay
Explanation: 'Would rather' is followed by the bare infinitive: 'would rather stay'.
Q2. Choose the correct option: He left the house an hour early lest he ___ the bus.
- A. should miss ✓
- B. misses
- C. will miss
- D. had missed
Answer: A. should miss
Explanation: 'Lest' expresses a precaution and takes 'should' + base verb: 'lest he should miss'.
Q3. Choose the correct option: Rarely ___ such a gifted young surgeon.
- A. we have seen
- B. have we seen ✓
- C. we had seen
- D. did we saw
Answer: B. have we seen
Explanation: A negative adverb such as 'rarely' at the start of a sentence forces inversion: 'Rarely have we seen'.
Q4. Choose the correct option: He speaks as if he ___ the director of the hospital, though he is only a clerk.
- A. will be
- B. were ✓
- C. is
- D. has been
Answer: B. were
Explanation: 'As if' describing an unreal situation takes the subjunctive 'were'.
Q5. Choose the correct option: The lecturer congratulated Amna ___ her first position in the board examination.
- A. at
- B. on ✓
- C. for
- D. with
Answer: B. on
Explanation: 'Congratulate' takes the preposition 'on': congratulate someone on an achievement.

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Q6. Choose the correct option: My parents insisted ___ my accepting the scholarship.
- A. on
- B. about
- C. for
- D. to
Q7. Choose the correct option: The new rule does not comply ___ the university's guidelines.
- A. by
- B. to
- C. with
- D. on
Q8. Choose the correct option: There was ___ sugar in the tea than I preferred.
- A. fewer
- B. little
- C. a few
- D. less
Q9. Choose the correct option: It is no use ___ over spilt milk.
- A. cry
- B. crying
- C. to cry
- D. for crying
Q10. Choose the correct option: Rabia cannot drive, and neither ___ her sister.
- A. can
- B. does
- C. cannot
- D. is
Q11. Choose the correct option: Her handwriting is far superior ___ mine.
- A. to
- B. from
- C. than
- D. over
Q12. Choose the correct option: By December, Dr Kamran ___ at this clinic for exactly twenty years.
- A. has been working
- B. will have been working
- C. would work
- D. will be working
Q13. Choose the correct option: If I had taken that job in Dubai, I ___ in Lahore now.
- A. will not be living
- B. would not be living
- C. would not have lived
- D. had not lived
Q14. Choose the correct option: The patient is believed ___ from malaria.
- A. to suffering
- B. to be suffering
- C. to be suffered
- D. suffering to be
Q15. Choose the correct option: Which is the correct indirect form of: He asked me, "Can you lend me your pen?"
- A. He asked me if you can lend me your pen.
- B. He asked me if I could lend him my pen.
- C. He asked me that I could lend his pen to him.
- D. He asked me can I lend him my pen.
Q16. Choose the correct option: The nurse told the visitors, "Do not touch the equipment." Which is the correct indirect form?
- A. The nurse told the visitors that they do not touch the equipment.
- B. The nurse told the visitors not to touch the equipment.
- C. The nurse told the visitors they should not to touch the equipment.
- D. The nurse told the visitors to not to touch the equipment.
Q17. Choose the correct option: I would rather you ___ here, because the room is full of oxygen cylinders.
- A. do not smoke
- B. did not smoke
- C. not to smoke
- D. have not smoked
Q18. Choose the correct option: Only after the results were announced ___ the mistake.
- A. did they realise
- B. had they realised
- C. they realised
- D. they did realise
Q19. Choose the correct option: The ___ of the two brothers is a pharmacist.
- A. elder
- B. most elder
- C. more elder
- D. eldest
Q20. Choose the correct option: The committee is composed ___ five doctors and four nurses.
- A. of
- B. with
- C. by
- D. from
Q21. Choose the correct option: The shelf was not low ___ for the child to reach.
- A. very
- B. too
- C. enough
- D. so
Q22. Choose the correct option: You may borrow the book ___ you return it by Friday.
- A. until
- B. provided that
- C. unless
- D. although
Q23. Choose the correct option: The patient was advised to avoid ___ spicy food.
- A. ate
- B. to eat
- C. eating
- D. eat
Q24. Choose the correct option: The dentist apologised to the patient ___ the delay.
- A. of
- B. about to
- C. on
- D. for
Q25. Choose the correct option: The farmers worked ___ throughout the harvest season.
- A. hardness
- B. hard
- C. hardly
- D. hardy
Q26. Choose the correct option: You haven't met the new registrar, ___?
- A. do you
- B. haven't you
- C. did you
- D. have you
Q27. Choose the correct option: I wish the rain ___ stop; we have been stuck here for hours.
- A. would
- B. shall
- C. will
- D. can
Q28. Choose the correct option: The light was on in his room, so he ___ been awake.
- A. should have
- B. ought have
- C. need have
- D. must have
Q29. Choose the correct option: Our grandfather ___ walk five kilometres every morning when he was young.
- A. was used to
- B. is used to
- C. used to
- D. uses to
Q30. Choose the correct option: ___ being intelligent, she is also very modest.
- A. Beside
- B. Beyond
- C. Between
- D. Besides