Jamb English Language Past Questions For Year 1984
Question 6
From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
Evelyn: I've submitted eight copies. Joseph: You .... eight. Three would have been enough
- A. can't have submitted
- B. couldn't have submitted
- C. didn't need to submit
- D. needn't have submitted
- E. must have submitted
Question 7
From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
Leonard: We went to a hotel and had a very good dinner for N1.00. Geoffrey: You .... a very good dinner if you paid N1.00
- A. must had had
- B. needn't have had
- C. couldn't have had
- D. had to have
- E. have had
Question 8
From the alternatives provided in the question below select the one which most appropriately completes the sentence:
By the end of this year i ..... twenty books
- A. read
- B. would have read
- C. will read
- D. have read
- E. am reading
Question 9
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
Question 10
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
