Word Forms Worksheet: Noun, Verb, Adjective

Vocabulary lesson 26: Word families · Set 718 · 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: Termites can ___ wooden furniture. (a) destructive (b) destruction (c) destroy (d) destructively
2. 2.Which word is a noun? (a) invention (b) inventively (c) inventive (d) invent
3. 3.Choose the right form: Hard work is the key to ___. (a) successful (b) succeed (c) successfully (d) success
4. 4.Choose the right form: You must ___ which book to read first. (a) decide (b) decision (c) decisive (d) decisively
5. 5.Which word is a noun? (a) admire (b) admirable (c) admiration (d) admirably
6. 6.Which word is an adjective? (a) danger (b) endanger (c) dangerous (d) dangerously
7. 7.Choose the right form: Can you ___ Dad to buy a puppy? (a) persuasion (b) persuasively (c) persuasive (d) persuade
8. 8.Which word is a verb? (a) creatively (b) creation (c) creative (d) create
9. 9.Which word is a verb? (a) persuasive (b) persuade (c) persuasively (d) persuasion
10. 10.Choose the right form: If you practise daily, you will ___. (a) successful (b) successfully (c) success (d) succeed
11. 11.Choose the right form: There is a big ___ between a frog and a toad. (a) difference (b) differently (c) differ (d) different
12. 12.Which word is a verb? (a) destructive (b) destruction (c) destructively (d) destroy
13. 13.Choose the right form: Bright flowers ___ bees. (a) attract (b) attraction (c) attractive (d) attractively
14. 14.Which word is a noun? (a) beautifully (b) beautify (c) beauty (d) beautiful
15. 15.Choose the right form: Close your eyes and ___ you are on the moon. (a) imaginative (b) imagine (c) imagination (d) imaginatively
16. 16.Choose the right form: The storm caused great ___ in the village. (a) destructively (b) destroy (c) destruction (d) destructive
17. 17.Choose the right form: Please explain it ___; I am only seven! (a) simplify (b) simplicity (c) simply (d) simple
18. 18.Choose the right form: Let us ___ a poster for Earth Day. (a) creation (b) create (c) creatively (d) creative
19. 19.Choose the right form: She is a ___ doctor in Pune. (a) succeed (b) success (c) successfully (d) successful
20. 20.Which word is an adverb? (a) dangerous (b) danger (c) endanger (d) dangerously
21. 21.Which word is a noun? (a) persuade (b) persuasively (c) persuasion (d) persuasive
22. 22.Choose the right form: It was a hard ___ to make. (a) decide (b) decisively (c) decisive (d) decision
23. 23.Choose the right form: Tara spoke ___ and won the debate. (a) persuasion (b) persuasive (c) persuasively (d) persuade
24. 24.Which word is an adjective? (a) succeed (b) success (c) successfully (d) successful
25. 25.Choose the right form: Wear a helmet for ___ while cycling. (a) protect (b) protectively (c) protective (d) protection
26. 26.Which word is an adjective? (a) attraction (b) attractive (c) attract (d) attractively
27. 27.Which word is a verb? (a) endanger (b) dangerous (c) dangerously (d) danger
28. 28.Choose the right form: Can you ___ the picture in five sentences? (a) description (b) describe (c) descriptively (d) descriptive
29. 29.Which word is an adverb? (a) persuade (b) persuasive (c) persuasively (d) persuasion
30. 30.Which word is an adverb? (a) successfully (b) succeed (c) success (d) successful
31. 31.Which word is an adverb? (a) attractive (b) attract (c) attractively (d) attraction
32. 32.Which word is a verb? (a) inventive (b) invent (c) inventively (d) invention
33. 33.Which word is a verb? (a) decision (b) decide (c) decisive (d) decisively
34. 34.Which word is a noun? (a) simply (b) simplicity (c) simplify (d) simple
35. 35.Which word is a noun? (a) successfully (b) succeed (c) successful (d) success
36. 36.Choose the right form: Your honesty is ___. (a) admiration (b) admire (c) admirable (d) admirably
37. 37.Which word is a verb? (a) admiration (b) admirably (c) admire (d) admirable
38. 38.Choose the right form: Plastic waste can ___ sea animals. (a) endanger (b) dangerous (c) dangerously (d) danger
39. 39.Which word is an adjective? (a) creative (b) creation (c) creatively (d) create
40. 40.Which word is an adjective? (a) pure (b) purify (c) purity (d) purely

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