Word Forms Worksheet: Noun, Verb, Adjective

Vocabulary lesson 26: Word families · Set 492 · 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) decide (b) decisively (c) decisive (d) decision
2. 2.Choose the right form: Let us ___ a poster for Earth Day. (a) creation (b) create (c) creatively (d) creative
3. 3.Which word is an adjective? (a) purity (b) purify (c) pure (d) purely
4. 4.Which word is an adjective? (a) creatively (b) create (c) creative (d) creation
5. 5.Choose the right form: Tara spoke ___ and won the debate. (a) persuasive (b) persuasively (c) persuasion (d) persuade
6. 6.Which word is a verb? (a) destruction (b) destructive (c) destructively (d) destroy
7. 7.Which word is a verb? (a) creative (b) creation (c) create (d) creatively
8. 8.Which word is a verb? (a) persuasion (b) persuasive (c) persuade (d) persuasively
9. 9.Which word is an adverb? (a) attraction (b) attractive (c) attractively (d) attract
10. 10.Which word is an adjective? (a) destructively (b) destruction (c) destroy (d) destructive
11. 11.Which word is a noun? (a) destructive (b) destroy (c) destructively (d) destruction
12. 12.Which word is a verb? (a) protection (b) protective (c) protectively (d) protect
13. 13.Which word is an adjective? (a) inventively (b) invent (c) inventive (d) invention
14. 14.Choose the right form: The telephone was a great ___. (a) inventively (b) invent (c) inventive (d) invention
15. 15.Which word is an adjective? (a) dangerously (b) endanger (c) danger (d) dangerous
16. 16.Choose the right form: Can you ___ the picture in five sentences? (a) description (b) descriptively (c) descriptive (d) describe
17. 17.Choose the right form: Can you ___ Dad to buy a puppy? (a) persuasive (b) persuade (c) persuasion (d) persuasively
18. 18.Which word is an adverb? (a) difference (b) different (c) differ (d) differently
19. 19.Which word is an adverb? (a) simple (b) simplify (c) simply (d) simplicity
20. 20.Choose the right form: Use your ___ to write a story about a flying elephant. (a) imaginative (b) imagination (c) imaginatively (d) imagine
21. 21.Choose the right form: Wear a helmet for ___ while cycling. (a) protective (b) protectively (c) protection (d) protect
22. 22.Which word is a noun? (a) pure (b) purely (c) purify (d) purity
23. 23.Choose the right form: You must ___ which book to read first. (a) decisive (b) decision (c) decisively (d) decide
24. 24.Which word is a noun? (a) attractively (b) attract (c) attraction (d) attractive
25. 25.Choose the right form: Please explain it ___; I am only seven! (a) simple (b) simply (c) simplicity (d) simplify
26. 26.Choose the right form: There is a big ___ between a frog and a toad. (a) different (b) differently (c) difference (d) differ
27. 27.Which word is a noun? (a) creatively (b) create (c) creative (d) creation
28. 28.Choose the right form: Do not play near the railway track; it is ___. (a) danger (b) dangerously (c) endanger (d) dangerous
29. 29.Choose the right form: Close your eyes and ___ you are on the moon. (a) imagination (b) imaginative (c) imaginatively (d) imagine
30. 30.Which word is an adjective? (a) admiration (b) admire (c) admirable (d) admirably
31. 31.Which word is a noun? (a) endanger (b) dangerous (c) danger (d) dangerously
32. 32.Choose the right form: Termites can ___ wooden furniture. (a) destructively (b) destruction (c) destructive (d) destroy
33. 33.Which word is a verb? (a) danger (b) dangerous (c) endanger (d) dangerously
34. 34.Which word is a verb? (a) success (b) successful (c) succeed (d) successfully
35. 35.Which word is an adverb? (a) protection (b) protective (c) protect (d) protectively
36. 36.Which word is an adjective? (a) persuade (b) persuasively (c) persuasion (d) persuasive
37. 37.Which word is an adjective? (a) successfully (b) successful (c) succeed (d) success
38. 38.Which word is a verb? (a) differently (b) difference (c) differ (d) different
39. 39.Choose the right form: Write a short ___ of your best friend. (a) describe (b) description (c) descriptively (d) descriptive
40. 40.Which word is an adverb? (a) purely (b) pure (c) purity (d) purify

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