NUMS — Medical & Dental Entry Test

NUMS English — Grammar and Usage (Set 7)

Take the NUMS English — Grammar and Usage (Set 7): 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: There were ___ people at the lecture than the organisers had expected.
- A. fewer ✓
- B. less
- C. little
- D. lesser
Answer: A. fewer
Explanation: 'People' is countable, so the comparative of 'few' is used: fewer.
Q2. Choose the correct option: The scholarship will be awarded to ___ scores the highest in the final examination.
- A. whom
- B. whoever's
- C. whomever
- D. whoever ✓
Answer: D. whoever
Explanation: The pronoun is the subject of 'scores', so the subject form 'whoever' is needed.
Q3. Choose the correct option: When the nurse entered, the patient ___ on the bed, reading a magazine.
- A. was laying
- B. had laid
- C. was lain
- D. was lying ✓
Answer: D. was lying
Explanation: 'Lie' (recline) is intransitive; its continuous form is 'was lying'. 'Lay' needs an object.
Q4. Choose the correct option: I wish I ___ more time to prepare, but the test is tomorrow.
- A. would have
- B. have
- C. will have
- D. had ✓
Answer: D. had
Explanation: A wish about the present uses the past simple: 'I wish I had'.
Q5. Choose the correct option: Had it not been for the timely help of the paramedics, the patient ___.
- A. would have died ✓
- B. would die
- C. had died
- D. will have died
Answer: A. would have died
Explanation: A past unreal condition ('Had it not been...') takes 'would have' + past participle.

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Q6. In which sentence does the opening phrase correctly describe the subject that follows it?
- A. Opening the cabinet, the vial was found to be missing.
- B. Running to catch the bus, her bag fell open on the road.
- C. After taking the medicine, the fever subsided quickly.
- D. Opening the cabinet, the pharmacist found the vial missing.
Q7. Choose the correct option: The climate of Quetta is colder than ___ of Karachi.
- A. that
- B. those
- C. what
- D. this
Q8. Choose the correct option: Not only ___ the examination, but she also won a scholarship.
- A. she passed
- B. passed she
- C. did she pass
- D. she did pass
Q9. Choose the correct option: A number of students ___ absent from the practical class today.
- A. was
- B. are
- C. has been
- D. is
Q10. Choose the correct option: Our grandfather is used to ___ up at dawn.
- A. have woken
- B. wake
- C. waking
- D. woke
Q11. Choose the correct option: He asked me, "Where do you live?" The correct indirect form is: He asked me ___.
- A. where I will live
- B. where did I live
- C. that where I lived
- D. where I lived
Q12. Choose the correct option: Before the procedure, the dentist had her assistant ___ the instruments.
- A. to sterilise
- B. sterilised
- C. sterilising
- D. sterilise
Q13. Choose the correct option: If I had taken the earlier bus, I ___ at the hospital now.
- A. had been
- B. would have been
- C. would be
- D. will be
Q14. Choose the correct option: By next June the surgeon ___ at this hospital for twenty years.
- A. has worked
- B. will work
- C. will have worked
- D. would work
Q15. Choose the correct option: She is ___ MBBS student at the Army Medical College.
- A. the
- B. a
- C. an
- D. no article
Q16. Choose the correct option: The committee insisted ___ a written apology from the contractor.
- A. for
- B. about
- C. on
- D. to
Q17. Choose the correct option: Hira is senior ___ her sister by three years.
- A. from
- B. to
- C. than
- D. over
Q18. Choose the correct option: The more he practised, ___ he became.
- A. the more confident
- B. more confident
- C. most confident
- D. the most confident
Q19. Choose the correct option: The boy is ___ weak to lift the heavy box.
- A. very
- B. too
- C. enough
- D. so
Q20. Choose the correct option: Neither Hina nor her cousins ___ currently interested in the offer.
- A. has been
- B. are
- C. is
- D. was
Q21. Choose the correct option: The nurse ___ a mistake in the dosage chart but corrected it quickly.
- A. made
- B. took
- C. did
- D. had
Q22. Choose the correct option: While the surgeon ___ the report, the power went out.
- A. was reading
- B. has read
- C. read
- D. reads
Q23. Choose the correct option: She carefully avoided ___ the question directly.
- A. to answer
- B. answered
- C. answer
- D. answering
Q24. Choose the correct option: The doctor advised him ___ a brisk walk every morning.
- A. taking
- B. take
- C. to take
- D. for taking
Q25. Choose the correct option: This is the laboratory ___ the vaccine was developed.
- A. what
- B. which
- C. whose
- D. where
Q26. In which sentence are the commas placed correctly?
- A. My sister, who studies in Multan called me yesterday.
- B. My sister, who studies in Multan, called me yesterday.
- C. My sister who studies in Multan, called me yesterday.
- D. My sister who, studies in Multan, called me yesterday.
Q27. Choose the correct option: The lights are off in his room, so he ___ left already.
- A. would have
- B. need have
- C. can have
- D. must have
Q28. Choose the correct option: The committee recommended that the fee ___ waived for needy students.
- A. was
- B. be
- C. is
- D. would be
Q29. Choose the correct option: The new wing of the hospital ___ by the end of next month.
- A. has completed
- B. will have been completed
- C. will complete
- D. will be completing
Q30. Choose the correct option: It was ___ a boring lecture that half the class dozed off.
- A. too
- B. very
- C. so
- D. such