In each of the following questions, choose the option that best completes the gap(s). What goes around _____ around.

Assessment: JAMB UTME - Use of English - 2025 Subject: English Language

Question 1 Report

In each of the following questions, choose the option that best completes the gap(s).

What goes around _____ around.

Answer Details

"What goes around comes around" is a well-known English proverb meaning that a person's actions, whether good or bad, will eventually have consequences that return to affect them. The correct verb form is comes.

The subject of the sentence is "what," which functions as a third-person singular pronoun. In the simple present tense (used for general truths and habitual actions), a third-person singular subject requires the verb form ending in "-s." Therefore, "comes" is correct.

"Come" (base form) would be wrong because it lacks the "-s" required for third-person singular. "Came" (past tense) would change the proverb from a timeless statement to a past-tense report. "Is coming" (present continuous) would suggest an ongoing single action rather than a general truth. Proverbs expressing universal truths use the simple present tense.

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