Clause and sentence patterns - Jamb English Language Past Questions and Answers

Question 281:

• JAMB 1998

Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.
AIDS is ..... disease that kills slowly but surely?

A. Too much a deadly
B. Very deadly a
C. So deadly a
D. Such deadly a

Question 282:

• JAMB 1998

Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.
We had a dull evening because ......?

A. Hardly the talk had begun when the lights went off
B. Hardly had the talk begun when the light went off
C. The talk had hardly begun when the lights had gone out
D. The lights had hardly gone out when the talk began

Question 283:

• JAMB 1998

Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.
Soyinka's masterful ....... of the atmosphere of his childhood helped to make his book, Ake, an ought success?

A. Envocation
B. Invocation
C. Convocation
D. Revocation

Question 284:

• JAMB 1998

Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.
Okonkwo is a stubborn man, he will never ...... his words?

A. Chew
B. Spit
C. Eat
D. Bite

Question 285:

• JAMB 1998

Fill each of the gap with the appropriate option from the list following the the gap.
Watching carefully, i could see the fish ...... along the bottom?

A. Dotting
B. Crawling
C. Diving
D. Darting