All 9 Tenses & Subject-Verb Agreement questions the Punjab PSC asked between 2017 and 2020, each with a worked answer and the exam it came from. First 10 free to read.
Free to read, with the worked answer and the exam each one came from. The book prints this topic in the order the Commission favours, so these are the ones to know first.
Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions in Question No. 9 and 10
'Beat' is an irregular verb: its past tense is 'beat' and its past participle is 'beaten'; 'beated' does not exist. The first two blanks describe completed past actions (he beat a hasty retreat; he beat the Afghans), so they take the simple past 'beat'. The third blank is passive ('they were beaten'), which needs the past participle.
The verb sink is irregular: sink – sank (simple past) – sunk (past participle). The first sentence needs the simple past, 'His voice gradually sank to a whisper', and the second, with the auxiliary 'had', needs the past participle, 'thousands had sunk to the ground'. So sank, sunk. 'Sunken' survives only as an adjective (sunken eyes).
'Mistake' is irregular: mistake – mistook – mistaken. The sentence needs the simple past, 'He mistook me for my brother' (to mistake A for B = to confuse A with B). 'Mistaken' is the participle and needs an auxiliary, while 'mistaked' does not exist.
'Get' is irregular: get – got – got in British English ('gotten' is the American participle). With 'has' the past participle 'got' is required: 'He has got hold of the wrong end of the stick', an idiom meaning to misunderstand something completely. 'Getten' and 'getted' do not exist.
'Weep' is irregular: weep – wept – wept. The present perfect 'I have wept a million tears' needs the past participle; 'weeped' is not a word, and 'weep' and 'weeping' cannot follow 'have' here.
'Swim' is an irregular verb: swim – swam – swum. After the auxiliary 'has' the past participle is required, giving 'The boy has swum across the Indus.' 'Swimmed' and 'swummed' do not exist, and 'swim' is the base form.
'If only' introduces an unreal wish about the present. Such a wish takes the past subjunctive. The subjunctive of 'be' is were for every person: 'If only I were taller'. 'Was' belongs to casual speech, not to the form being tested. 'Could' leaves the sentence without a complement. 'Had been' would push the wish into the past, while the main clause 'I might be' stays in the present.
The subject 'floods' is plural and the sentence is about last year, so the past plural verb were is needed. 'Was' is singular and 'is/are' are present tense.
We use at for a small place like a village or town, in for a larger area like a province, and of to show belonging: 'at Naddish in the province of Bengal'.
The Commission set 9 Tenses & Subject-Verb Agreement questions across 7 papers between 2017–2020. That is the whole set, not a sample — every one of them is in the book, and the 9 most-asked are on this page free.
Not in this set — each of these 9 was set once in the years covered. Questions elsewhere in the book do repeat, and carry a badge saying how often.
Here. Every question on this page is a solved MCQ: the four options as printed, the correct answer, and a worked explanation in plain English — not just a letter. The rest of the 9 are in the book, in the same form.
Switch to Attempt mode at the top of the questions. You get one question at a time and it is marked the moment you pick an option, with the reason underneath — the same way the exam feels, on your phone.
The questions are on screen rather than in a downloadable file, so they stay current and correct. The printed book has all 9 of these plus the rest of the English section, and every buyer gets the whole thing online as well.
The exams behind these questions, most first. A paper here is a sitting: a question set in two papers of the same sitting counts once.
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