2015 - JAMB English Past Questions and Answers - page 4

The answer is ‘D’ because only ‘trees’ /tri:z/ whose plural form ‘-s’ becomes ‘-z’ rhymes with ‘breeze’ /bri:z/. The other options ‘stress’ and ‘chess’ have similar rhymes, leaving free /fri:/ alone

The correct answer is ‘B’ ‘beleive’ which is properly spelt as ‘believe’. The others on the list are properly spelt.

The correct answer is ‘D’ because it is a past perfect tense. Option ‘A’ is ‘would be’ which implies the future past tense, option ‘B’ ‘have been’ which means/is a present perfect tense, option ‘C’ are which indicates ‘plural’

The correct answer is ‘D’ heroes because it is the plural form of ‘hero’. The others are wrongly spelt.

The correct answer is ‘C’ defused which means to remove the fuse from (bomb etc).

The answer to this is ‘C’ because the word ‘song’ /son/ /sc:g/ has the same consonant nasal sound as ‘hang’ /hæg/ while the other option have different sounds ‘hinge’, Einge /EIndz/, ‘balm’ /ba:m/

The answer is ‘B’ has been robbed because it is a present perfect tenses. Option (a) is in past perfect form, option (C) is a past continuous option is a present continuous form.

The answer as regards the word purse /pƷ:s/ is journey /dzƷ:ni/ because it has the same vowel sound A ‘journey’ is the answer as opposed pays \ˈpā\. heart /ha:t/ which has the long vowel /a:/ and course /kc:s/