Word Forms Worksheet: Noun, Verb, Adjective

Vocabulary lesson 26: Word families · Set 115 · 40 questions

Word tip (The gap decides the form): Endings help: -tion, -sion, -ness, -ity, -ence → noun; -ful, -ive, -ous, -able, -ent → adjective; -ly → adverb; -ify, en- → verb. Look at the gap: after a, the, your → noun; after will, can, to → verb; before a noun or after is → adjective; telling how something is done → adverb. Read the sentence with your word in it to check.

1. 1.Which word is a noun? (a) description (b) describe (c) descriptive (d) descriptively
2. 2.Which word is an adverb? (a) decisive (b) decide (c) decision (d) decisively
3. 3.Which word is a verb? (a) destructive (b) destroy (c) destructively (d) destruction
4. 4.Choose the right form: Tara spoke ___ and won the debate. (a) persuasion (b) persuasively (c) persuasive (d) persuade
5. 5.Which word is a verb? (a) admire (b) admirably (c) admiration (d) admirable
6. 6.Choose the right form: Plastic waste can ___ sea animals. (a) dangerous (b) danger (c) dangerously (d) endanger
7. 7.Choose the right form: If you practise daily, you will ___. (a) success (b) successful (c) successfully (d) succeed
8. 8.Choose the right form: Can you ___ the picture in five sentences? (a) describe (b) descriptive (c) description (d) descriptively
9. 9.Which word is an adjective? (a) invention (b) inventively (c) inventive (d) invent
10. 10.Choose the right form: Do not play near the railway track; it is ___. (a) danger (b) dangerously (c) endanger (d) dangerous
11. 11.Which word is an adjective? (a) destruction (b) destroy (c) destructive (d) destructively
12. 12.Choose the right form: Hard work is the key to ___. (a) successful (b) successfully (c) success (d) succeed
13. 13.Which word is an adverb? (a) purity (b) purely (c) pure (d) purify
14. 14.Which word is a verb? (a) purely (b) purity (c) purify (d) pure
15. 15.Which word is a noun? (a) differ (b) different (c) difference (d) differently
16. 16.Which word is an adverb? (a) creatively (b) creation (c) creative (d) create
17. 17.Which word is a verb? (a) attractively (b) attract (c) attractive (d) attraction
18. 18.Which word is a noun? (a) simplicity (b) simple (c) simplify (d) simply
19. 19.Which word is an adjective? (a) purify (b) purity (c) purely (d) pure
20. 20.Which word is a verb? (a) imaginative (b) imaginatively (c) imagination (d) imagine
21. 21.Choose the right form: Use your ___ to write a story about a flying elephant. (a) imagination (b) imagine (c) imaginative (d) imaginatively
22. 22.Which word is an adjective? (a) admiration (b) admirable (c) admire (d) admirably
23. 23.Which word is an adjective? (a) differ (b) difference (c) different (d) differently
24. 24.Choose the right form: Trees ___ the soil from washing away. (a) protectively (b) protect (c) protection (d) protective
25. 25.Which word is a noun? (a) admiration (b) admirable (c) admirably (d) admire
26. 26.Choose the right form: There is a big ___ between a frog and a toad. (a) differently (b) different (c) differ (d) difference
27. 27.Choose the right form: Let us ___ a poster for Earth Day. (a) creatively (b) creative (c) create (d) creation
28. 28.Choose the right form: Can you ___ Dad to buy a puppy? (a) persuasive (b) persuasion (c) persuasively (d) persuade
29. 29.Choose the right form: Everyone looked at the dancer with ___. (a) admire (b) admirable (c) admirably (d) admiration
30. 30.Choose the right form: Your honesty is ___. (a) admirably (b) admirable (c) admire (d) admiration
31. 31.Which word is an adjective? (a) dangerous (b) dangerously (c) danger (d) endanger
32. 32.Choose the right form: Meera sings ___. (a) beautiful (b) beautifully (c) beauty (d) beautify
33. 33.Which word is a noun? (a) decide (b) decisive (c) decisively (d) decision
34. 34.Choose the right form: Write a short ___ of your best friend. (a) description (b) descriptive (c) describe (d) descriptively
35. 35.Which word is a verb? (a) description (b) descriptive (c) descriptively (d) describe
36. 36.Choose the right form: It was a hard ___ to make. (a) decide (b) decisive (c) decisively (d) decision
37. 37.Which word is a noun? (a) protectively (b) protective (c) protection (d) protect
38. 38.Choose the right form: The rocket was ___ launched. (a) succeed (b) successfully (c) success (d) successful
39. 39.Choose the right form: Kashmir is famous for its natural ___. (a) beautifully (b) beautiful (c) beauty (d) beautify
40. 40.Choose the right form: The telephone was a great ___. (a) inventively (b) invention (c) inventive (d) invent

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