Agreement/Concord - Jamb English Language Past Questions and Answers

Question 246:

• JAMB 1984

From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
I meant ... a pencil but there was no one .... there.

A. Buying/selling
B. To buy/to sell
C. Buying/to sell
D. Buy/to sell
E. To buy/selling

Question 247:

• JAMB 1984

From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
Mrs. Okoro .... in this school since 1975.

A. Taught
B. Is teaching
C. Was teaching
D. Teaches
E. Has been teaching

Question 248:

• JAMB 1984

From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
The Governor has .... to the people on many occasions

A. Broadcast
B. Been broadcast
C. Broadcasted
D. Being broadcast
E. Been broadcasted

Question 249:

• JAMB 1984

From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
Paulina arrived late, she ..... the right route

A. Cannot have taken
B. Could not have taking
C. Cannot take
D. Could not had taken
E. Could not have taken

Question 250:

• JAMB 1984

From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
.... the medicine, he asked his daughter to take it according to the doctor's prescription.

A. Having to buy
B. Having bought
C. Having been bought
D. Having being bought
E. Having buy