Pearson PTE General — All Questions

Choose the correct tense: 'While I ___ dinner, the phone rang.'

• a.cooked
• b.was cooking✓
• c.have cooked
• d.cook

The past continuous 'was cooking' describes an action in progress that was interrupted by a shorter past action ('rang').

Complete: 'She's the most talented musician ___ I have ever met.'

• a.what
• b.which
• c.that✓
• d.who's

After a superlative, 'that' is the usual relative pronoun. 'What' cannot introduce a relative clause here, and 'who's' means 'who is'.

Select the correct option: 'There isn't ___ milk left in the fridge.'

• a.many
• b.a few
• c.several
• d.much✓

'Milk' is uncountable, so the quantifier 'much' is used in the negative. 'Many', 'a few', and 'several' go with countable nouns.

Choose the correct form: 'They let the children ___ in the garden.'

• a.play✓
• b.to play
• c.playing
• d.played

After 'let + object', the bare infinitive is used: 'let the children play'. No 'to' is required.

Complete: 'I wish I ___ more time to finish the project.'

• a.have
• b.had✓
• c.will have
• d.am having

'I wish' about a present situation is followed by the past simple to express an unreal wish, so 'had' is correct.