Word Forms Worksheet: Noun, Verb, Adjective

Vocabulary lesson 26: Word families · Set 745 · 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) purely (b) purity (c) purify (d) pure
2. 2.Which word is a noun? (a) decide (b) decisively (c) decision (d) decisive
3. 3.Which word is a noun? (a) beautiful (b) beautify (c) beautifully (d) beauty
4. 4.Choose the right form: Write a short ___ of your best friend. (a) descriptive (b) description (c) describe (d) descriptively
5. 5.Which word is a noun? (a) persuade (b) persuasively (c) persuasive (d) persuasion
6. 6.Choose the right form: Everyone looked at the dancer with ___. (a) admirable (b) admirably (c) admire (d) admiration
7. 7.Which word is a noun? (a) successful (b) succeed (c) success (d) successfully
8. 8.Choose the right form: Hard work is the key to ___. (a) succeed (b) success (c) successfully (d) successful
9. 9.Choose the right form: The Taj Mahal is a famous tourist ___. (a) attract (b) attraction (c) attractive (d) attractively
10. 10.Choose the right form: Tara spoke ___ and won the debate. (a) persuasive (b) persuasively (c) persuade (d) persuasion
11. 11.Choose the right form: You must ___ which book to read first. (a) decisively (b) decisive (c) decide (d) decision
12. 12.Choose the right form: Do not play near the railway track; it is ___. (a) danger (b) endanger (c) dangerously (d) dangerous
13. 13.Which word is a noun? (a) destructively (b) destruction (c) destructive (d) destroy
14. 14.Choose the right form: She is a ___ doctor in Pune. (a) successful (b) successfully (c) succeed (d) success
15. 15.Which word is an adverb? (a) succeed (b) successful (c) successfully (d) success
16. 16.Choose the right form: Let us ___ a poster for Earth Day. (a) creation (b) creative (c) creatively (d) create
17. 17.Which word is an adverb? (a) imagination (b) imaginative (c) imaginatively (d) imagine
18. 18.Choose the right form: Please explain it ___; I am only seven! (a) simplicity (b) simplify (c) simple (d) simply
19. 19.Which word is an adverb? (a) beauty (b) beautify (c) beautiful (d) beautifully
20. 20.Which word is a verb? (a) purely (b) pure (c) purify (d) purity
21. 21.Choose the right form: Can you ___ the picture in five sentences? (a) descriptive (b) describe (c) descriptively (d) description
22. 22.Which word is a verb? (a) danger (b) dangerously (c) dangerous (d) endanger
23. 23.Which word is a verb? (a) attract (b) attractive (c) attractively (d) attraction
24. 24.Choose the right form: Close your eyes and ___ you are on the moon. (a) imaginative (b) imagine (c) imagination (d) imaginatively
25. 25.Which word is a noun? (a) dangerous (b) dangerously (c) endanger (d) danger
26. 26.Which word is a verb? (a) destructive (b) destroy (c) destruction (d) destructively
27. 27.Which word is an adverb? (a) differ (b) differently (c) different (d) difference
28. 28.Which word is an adjective? (a) beautiful (b) beautify (c) beauty (d) beautifully
29. 29.Which word is an adjective? (a) difference (b) different (c) differently (d) differ
30. 30.Choose the right form: Termites can ___ wooden furniture. (a) destruction (b) destructively (c) destructive (d) destroy
31. 31.Which word is a verb? (a) succeed (b) successful (c) success (d) successfully
32. 32.Choose the right form: Painting helps children become more ___. (a) creation (b) creative (c) create (d) creatively
33. 33.Which word is an adverb? (a) protectively (b) protect (c) protective (d) protection
34. 34.Which word is a noun? (a) protect (b) protective (c) protection (d) protectively
35. 35.Which word is an adverb? (a) admiration (b) admire (c) admirable (d) admirably
36. 36.Which word is a verb? (a) difference (b) differently (c) different (d) differ
37. 37.Choose the right form: Trees ___ the soil from washing away. (a) protective (b) protectively (c) protect (d) protection
38. 38.Which word is an adjective? (a) attract (b) attractive (c) attraction (d) attractively
39. 39.Choose the right form: There is a big ___ between a frog and a toad. (a) different (b) differently (c) differ (d) difference
40. 40.Which word is an adjective? (a) describe (b) descriptively (c) description (d) descriptive

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