Word Forms Worksheet: Noun, Verb, Adjective

Vocabulary lesson 26: Word families · Set 357 · 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 an adjective? (a) attract (b) attractive (c) attraction (d) attractively
2. 2.Choose the right form: Termites can ___ wooden furniture. (a) destruction (b) destructive (c) destroy (d) destructively
3. 3.Choose the right form: Let us ___ a poster for Earth Day. (a) creatively (b) create (c) creative (d) creation
4. 4.Which word is a verb? (a) purity (b) pure (c) purify (d) purely
5. 5.Choose the right form: Trees ___ the soil from washing away. (a) protection (b) protective (c) protectively (d) protect
6. 6.Which word is a verb? (a) difference (b) different (c) differently (d) differ
7. 7.Choose the right form: If you practise daily, you will ___. (a) successfully (b) succeed (c) successful (d) success
8. 8.Choose the right form: Write a short ___ of your best friend. (a) describe (b) description (c) descriptive (d) descriptively
9. 9.Choose the right form: Please explain it ___; I am only seven! (a) simple (b) simplicity (c) simplify (d) simply
10. 10.Which word is an adjective? (a) protection (b) protective (c) protect (d) protectively
11. 11.Choose the right form: The rocket was ___ launched. (a) successfully (b) succeed (c) success (d) successful
12. 12.Which word is an adjective? (a) admire (b) admiration (c) admirably (d) admirable
13. 13.Choose the right form: Use your ___ to write a story about a flying elephant. (a) imagine (b) imaginative (c) imaginatively (d) imagination
14. 14.Which word is a verb? (a) successfully (b) success (c) successful (d) succeed
15. 15.Which word is an adjective? (a) descriptively (b) descriptive (c) describe (d) description
16. 16.Choose the right form: Can you ___ the picture in five sentences? (a) descriptive (b) describe (c) descriptively (d) description
17. 17.Which word is an adjective? (a) endanger (b) danger (c) dangerously (d) dangerous
18. 18.Choose the right form: Do not play near the railway track; it is ___. (a) danger (b) dangerous (c) endanger (d) dangerously
19. 19.Which word is a noun? (a) beauty (b) beautifully (c) beautify (d) beautiful
20. 20.Which word is an adverb? (a) decision (b) decide (c) decisively (d) decisive
21. 21.Choose the right form: It was a hard ___ to make. (a) decide (b) decisive (c) decisively (d) decision
22. 22.Choose the right form: Plastic waste can ___ sea animals. (a) danger (b) endanger (c) dangerously (d) dangerous
23. 23.Which word is a noun? (a) attraction (b) attractive (c) attract (d) attractively
24. 24.Which word is a verb? (a) attraction (b) attractively (c) attract (d) attractive
25. 25.Which word is an adjective? (a) imaginative (b) imagine (c) imagination (d) imaginatively
26. 26.Which word is an adverb? (a) destroy (b) destructive (c) destructively (d) destruction
27. 27.Choose the right form: Close your eyes and ___ you are on the moon. (a) imagination (b) imagine (c) imaginative (d) imaginatively
28. 28.Which word is an adverb? (a) admiration (b) admire (c) admirable (d) admirably
29. 29.Choose the right form: Painting helps children become more ___. (a) creation (b) create (c) creative (d) creatively
30. 30.Which word is a verb? (a) decisively (b) decisive (c) decision (d) decide
31. 31.Which word is a noun? (a) imagination (b) imagine (c) imaginative (d) imaginatively
32. 32.Choose the right form: Wear a helmet for ___ while cycling. (a) protect (b) protection (c) protective (d) protectively
33. 33.Choose the right form: Can you ___ Dad to buy a puppy? (a) persuasive (b) persuasion (c) persuasively (d) persuade
34. 34.Which word is a verb? (a) danger (b) endanger (c) dangerous (d) dangerously
35. 35.Which word is an adverb? (a) persuasion (b) persuade (c) persuasively (d) persuasive
36. 36.Choose the right form: Bright flowers ___ bees. (a) attraction (b) attractive (c) attract (d) attractively
37. 37.Choose the right form: You must ___ which book to read first. (a) decision (b) decisively (c) decide (d) decisive
38. 38.Choose the right form: Tara spoke ___ and won the debate. (a) persuasively (b) persuasive (c) persuasion (d) persuade
39. 39.Which word is a noun? (a) simplify (b) simplicity (c) simple (d) simply
40. 40.Which word is an adverb? (a) difference (b) differ (c) different (d) differently

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