Word Forms Worksheet: Noun, Verb, Adjective

Vocabulary lesson 26: Word families · Set 676 · 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 adverb? (a) admirable (b) admirably (c) admiration (d) admire
2. 2.Which word is an adverb? (a) inventive (b) invention (c) invent (d) inventively
3. 3.Choose the right form: Use your ___ to write a story about a flying elephant. (a) imagine (b) imaginative (c) imaginatively (d) imagination
4. 4.Choose the right form: Close your eyes and ___ you are on the moon. (a) imaginatively (b) imaginative (c) imagine (d) imagination
5. 5.Choose the right form: The storm caused great ___ in the village. (a) destruction (b) destroy (c) destructive (d) destructively
6. 6.Choose the right form: Everyone looked at the dancer with ___. (a) admire (b) admirably (c) admiration (d) admirable
7. 7.Which word is an adjective? (a) success (b) succeed (c) successfully (d) successful
8. 8.Choose the right form: Your honesty is ___. (a) admire (b) admiration (c) admirable (d) admirably
9. 9.Choose the right form: Meera sings ___. (a) beauty (b) beautiful (c) beautifully (d) beautify
10. 10.Which word is an adverb? (a) danger (b) dangerous (c) endanger (d) dangerously
11. 11.Which word is an adjective? (a) decisively (b) decide (c) decision (d) decisive
12. 12.Choose the right form: The telephone was a great ___. (a) inventive (b) inventively (c) invent (d) invention
13. 13.Which word is a verb? (a) protect (b) protective (c) protection (d) protectively
14. 14.Which word is an adjective? (a) beautify (b) beautifully (c) beauty (d) beautiful
15. 15.Which word is a noun? (a) beauty (b) beautifully (c) beautify (d) beautiful
16. 16.Which word is an adverb? (a) pure (b) purify (c) purity (d) purely
17. 17.Which word is a noun? (a) creative (b) creation (c) create (d) creatively
18. 18.Choose the right form: Can you ___ the picture in five sentences? (a) descriptive (b) description (c) describe (d) descriptively
19. 19.Which word is a noun? (a) dangerously (b) dangerous (c) endanger (d) danger
20. 20.Choose the right form: Plastic waste can ___ sea animals. (a) danger (b) dangerously (c) endanger (d) dangerous
21. 21.Which word is an adverb? (a) different (b) differently (c) difference (d) differ
22. 22.Which word is a noun? (a) decide (b) decisive (c) decisively (d) decision
23. 23.Which word is a noun? (a) simplicity (b) simply (c) simplify (d) simple
24. 24.Choose the right form: You must ___ which book to read first. (a) decision (b) decisively (c) decisive (d) decide
25. 25.Choose the right form: She is a ___ doctor in Pune. (a) successfully (b) success (c) successful (d) succeed
26. 26.Which word is an adjective? (a) simplify (b) simplicity (c) simply (d) simple
27. 27.Choose the right form: Tara spoke ___ and won the debate. (a) persuasive (b) persuasion (c) persuasively (d) persuade
28. 28.Which word is an adjective? (a) destroy (b) destruction (c) destructively (d) destructive
29. 29.Choose the right form: Wear a helmet for ___ while cycling. (a) protect (b) protectively (c) protective (d) protection
30. 30.Choose the right form: Termites can ___ wooden furniture. (a) destructively (b) destroy (c) destructive (d) destruction
31. 31.Which word is a noun? (a) success (b) successful (c) successfully (d) succeed
32. 32.Which word is an adverb? (a) destructively (b) destroy (c) destructive (d) destruction
33. 33.Which word is a verb? (a) purity (b) pure (c) purely (d) purify
34. 34.Choose the right form: Can you ___ Dad to buy a puppy? (a) persuade (b) persuasion (c) persuasively (d) persuasive
35. 35.Choose the right form: Do not play near the railway track; it is ___. (a) danger (b) dangerous (c) endanger (d) dangerously
36. 36.Which word is an adverb? (a) simply (b) simplify (c) simplicity (d) simple
37. 37.Choose the right form: If you practise daily, you will ___. (a) succeed (b) successfully (c) success (d) successful
38. 38.Choose the right form: The rocket was ___ launched. (a) successfully (b) succeed (c) success (d) successful
39. 39.Which word is an adjective? (a) differently (b) difference (c) differ (d) different
40. 40.Which word is a verb? (a) dangerously (b) dangerous (c) endanger (d) danger

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