MDCAT English MCQs

'Since 2020' marks a starting point continuing to the present.
The present perfect is the standard tense for this duration.

The preparation was completed before the guests' arrival.
The past perfect shows this earlier completed past action.

The action will be in progress at a specified future time.
The future continuous tense expresses this situation.

The sentence refers to life experience without a finished past time.
The present perfect connects the experience to the present.

The train's departure occurred before another completed past action.
The earlier past event takes the past perfect.

The sentence describes an action in progress at a specific past time.
The past continuous tense expresses this meaning.

A measurement considered as one total amount takes a singular verb.
The entire distance is treated as one unit.

A habitual action is expressed with the simple present tense.
The third-person singular subject requires 'goes.'

The action is happening at the moment of speaking.
The present continuous tense is therefore required.

The subject is 'Each,' which is singular.
A singular subject takes the singular verb 'has.'

With 'neither...nor,' the verb usually agrees with the nearer subject.
The nearer subject 'employees' is plural, so 'are' is correct.

'News' ends in -s but is treated as a singular uncountable noun.
It therefore takes the singular verb 'is.'