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JAMB and WAEC English Language questions: Tenses and verb forms

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  1. Question 21· Tenses and verb forms· WAEC

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: If it rains tomorrow, the match ____ postponed.

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  2. Question 22· Tenses and verb forms· JAMB

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: I wish I ______ the answer.

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  3. Question 23· Tenses and verb forms· WAEC

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: If I had known about the meeting, I ____ you.

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  4. Question 24· Tenses and verb forms· JAMB

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: By next December, I ___ in Abuja for ten years.

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  5. Question 25· Tenses and verb forms· WAEC

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: While I ____ my homework, the light went off.

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  6. Question 26· Tenses and verb forms· JAMB

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: It is high time we ______ home.

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  7. Question 27· Tenses and verb forms· JAMB

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: If you heat ice, it ______.

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  8. Question 28· Tenses and verb forms· WAEC

    Choose the option that best fills the gap: By the time we got to the station, the train ______.

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  9. Question 29· Tenses and verb forms· WAEC

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: When I was a child, I ____ swim in the stream every evening.

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  10. Question 30· Tenses and verb forms· JAMB

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: If I ______ rich, I would build a school in my village.

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  11. Question 31· Tenses and verb forms· JAMB

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: I ______ him since we left school.

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  12. Question 32· Tenses and verb forms· WAEC

    Choose the option that best fills the gap: My aunt ______ in Abuja since 2019.

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  13. Question 33· Tenses and verb forms· JAMB

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: She ______ for two hours when the rain started.

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  14. Question 34· Tenses and verb forms· JAMB

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: He ______ a new car last year.

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  15. Question 35· Tenses and verb forms· JAMB

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: I ______ in Lagos since 2019.

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  16. Question 36· Tenses and verb forms· WAEC

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: She ____ here since January.

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  17. Question 37· Tenses and verb forms· WAEC

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: Look at those dark clouds! It ___ rain.

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  18. Question 38· Tenses and verb forms· JAMB

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: By the time we arrived, the film ______.

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  19. Question 39· Tenses and verb forms· JAMB

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: Look! The bus ______.

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  20. Question 40· Tenses and verb forms· JAMB

    Choose the option that best completes the sentence: The children ______ when their father came in.

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