Word Forms Worksheet: Noun, Verb, Adjective

Vocabulary lesson 26: Word families · Set 188 · 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.Choose the right form: Hard work is the key to ___. (a) success (b) succeed (c) successful (d) successfully
2. 2.Choose the right form: Wear a helmet for ___ while cycling. (a) protectively (b) protective (c) protection (d) protect
3. 3.Choose the right form: Your honesty is ___. (a) admiration (b) admirable (c) admire (d) admirably
4. 4.Which word is a noun? (a) purely (b) pure (c) purity (d) purify
5. 5.Choose the right form: It was a hard ___ to make. (a) decisive (b) decisively (c) decide (d) decision
6. 6.Choose the right form: Can you ___ the picture in five sentences? (a) description (b) descriptively (c) descriptive (d) describe
7. 7.Which word is an adverb? (a) invent (b) inventive (c) invention (d) inventively
8. 8.Which word is a verb? (a) descriptively (b) descriptive (c) description (d) describe
9. 9.Which word is an adverb? (a) succeed (b) successful (c) successfully (d) success
10. 10.Choose the right form: Tara spoke ___ and won the debate. (a) persuasion (b) persuasive (c) persuasively (d) persuade
11. 11.Which word is an adjective? (a) attract (b) attractive (c) attractively (d) attraction
12. 12.Which word is an adverb? (a) decide (b) decision (c) decisively (d) decisive
13. 13.Choose the right form: The telephone was a great ___. (a) invent (b) invention (c) inventive (d) inventively
14. 14.Which word is an adjective? (a) dangerous (b) dangerously (c) endanger (d) danger
15. 15.Which word is a noun? (a) beautiful (b) beautify (c) beautifully (d) beauty
16. 16.Choose the right form: Can you ___ Dad to buy a puppy? (a) persuade (b) persuasive (c) persuasively (d) persuasion
17. 17.Choose the right form: Plastic waste can ___ sea animals. (a) endanger (b) dangerously (c) danger (d) dangerous
18. 18.Which word is a noun? (a) successfully (b) succeed (c) successful (d) success
19. 19.Which word is a noun? (a) invention (b) inventively (c) inventive (d) invent
20. 20.Choose the right form: Meera sings ___. (a) beautiful (b) beautifully (c) beauty (d) beautify
21. 21.Which word is an adjective? (a) simplicity (b) simplify (c) simple (d) simply
22. 22.Which word is a verb? (a) persuasive (b) persuasively (c) persuade (d) persuasion
23. 23.Which word is a noun? (a) differently (b) different (c) differ (d) difference
24. 24.Which word is a noun? (a) dangerous (b) dangerously (c) endanger (d) danger
25. 25.Which word is a noun? (a) destructively (b) destruction (c) destroy (d) destructive
26. 26.Which word is a noun? (a) attractively (b) attractive (c) attract (d) attraction
27. 27.Choose the right form: Everyone looked at the dancer with ___. (a) admirably (b) admiration (c) admirable (d) admire
28. 28.Which word is an adjective? (a) decisively (b) decisive (c) decide (d) decision
29. 29.Which word is an adverb? (a) beauty (b) beautiful (c) beautify (d) beautifully
30. 30.Choose the right form: Do not play near the railway track; it is ___. (a) dangerously (b) endanger (c) dangerous (d) danger
31. 31.Which word is a noun? (a) simply (b) simplicity (c) simplify (d) simple
32. 32.Which word is an adverb? (a) simplicity (b) simple (c) simplify (d) simply
33. 33.Which word is a verb? (a) simple (b) simplify (c) simply (d) simplicity
34. 34.Choose the right form: Let us ___ a poster for Earth Day. (a) creatively (b) create (c) creative (d) creation
35. 35.Choose the right form: She is a ___ doctor in Pune. (a) successfully (b) success (c) succeed (d) successful
36. 36.Choose the right form: My sister and I like ___ games. (a) difference (b) differ (c) differently (d) different
37. 37.Which word is a verb? (a) purely (b) purity (c) purify (d) pure
38. 38.Which word is a verb? (a) attraction (b) attractive (c) attractively (d) attract
39. 39.Which word is a noun? (a) description (b) descriptive (c) descriptively (d) describe
40. 40.Which word is a noun? (a) persuasion (b) persuasive (c) persuade (d) persuasively

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