Word Forms Worksheet: Noun, Verb, Adjective

Vocabulary lesson 26: Word families · Set 574 · 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) decisive (c) decisively (d) decision
2. 2.Which word is a verb? (a) dangerous (b) danger (c) dangerously (d) endanger
3. 3.Which word is an adverb? (a) dangerous (b) danger (c) endanger (d) dangerously
4. 4.Choose the right form: Termites can ___ wooden furniture. (a) destructively (b) destruction (c) destroy (d) destructive
5. 5.Which word is an adverb? (a) persuade (b) persuasively (c) persuasive (d) persuasion
6. 6.Choose the right form: Write a short ___ of your best friend. (a) descriptive (b) describe (c) descriptively (d) description
7. 7.Choose the right form: Let us ___ a poster for Earth Day. (a) creation (b) creatively (c) creative (d) create
8. 8.Which word is a noun? (a) protection (b) protectively (c) protect (d) protective
9. 9.Which word is a noun? (a) invent (b) inventive (c) inventively (d) invention
10. 10.Which word is an adjective? (a) admirably (b) admire (c) admirable (d) admiration
11. 11.Which word is a noun? (a) destruction (b) destructive (c) destructively (d) destroy
12. 12.Choose the right form: Bright flowers ___ bees. (a) attractive (b) attract (c) attraction (d) attractively
13. 13.Which word is an adjective? (a) protection (b) protectively (c) protect (d) protective
14. 14.Which word is an adjective? (a) attractive (b) attraction (c) attract (d) attractively
15. 15.Choose the right form: My sister and I like ___ games. (a) differently (b) differ (c) different (d) difference
16. 16.Which word is a verb? (a) beautifully (b) beautiful (c) beauty (d) beautify
17. 17.Which word is a noun? (a) persuasion (b) persuasively (c) persuasive (d) persuade
18. 18.Choose the right form: Trees ___ the soil from washing away. (a) protection (b) protectively (c) protect (d) protective
19. 19.Which word is a noun? (a) simply (b) simplify (c) simple (d) simplicity
20. 20.Choose the right form: You must ___ which book to read first. (a) decisively (b) decisive (c) decide (d) decision
21. 21.Choose the right form: Tara spoke ___ and won the debate. (a) persuasion (b) persuasive (c) persuade (d) persuasively
22. 22.Which word is a noun? (a) description (b) descriptively (c) describe (d) descriptive
23. 23.Which word is an adjective? (a) different (b) difference (c) differ (d) differently
24. 24.Which word is an adverb? (a) admirably (b) admire (c) admirable (d) admiration
25. 25.Which word is a verb? (a) purely (b) purify (c) pure (d) purity
26. 26.Choose the right form: Do not play near the railway track; it is ___. (a) dangerously (b) dangerous (c) danger (d) endanger
27. 27.Which word is an adjective? (a) pure (b) purify (c) purely (d) purity
28. 28.Choose the right form: She is a ___ doctor in Pune. (a) successfully (b) success (c) successful (d) succeed
29. 29.Which word is an adverb? (a) attractively (b) attract (c) attraction (d) attractive
30. 30.Choose the right form: If you practise daily, you will ___. (a) success (b) successfully (c) succeed (d) successful
31. 31.Choose the right form: Hard work is the key to ___. (a) successfully (b) successful (c) succeed (d) success
32. 32.Which word is an adjective? (a) success (b) succeed (c) successful (d) successfully
33. 33.Which word is an adjective? (a) destroy (b) destructive (c) destruction (d) destructively
34. 34.Which word is a noun? (a) beautifully (b) beauty (c) beautiful (d) beautify
35. 35.Choose the right form: Meera sings ___. (a) beauty (b) beautiful (c) beautify (d) beautifully
36. 36.Which word is an adverb? (a) difference (b) different (c) differ (d) differently
37. 37.Choose the right form: The rocket was ___ launched. (a) succeed (b) successful (c) successfully (d) success
38. 38.Choose the right form: The telephone was a great ___. (a) inventive (b) inventively (c) invention (d) invent
39. 39.Choose the right form: Use your ___ to write a story about a flying elephant. (a) imagination (b) imaginative (c) imagine (d) imaginatively
40. 40.Choose the right form: The Taj Mahal is a famous tourist ___. (a) attract (b) attractive (c) attractively (d) attraction

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