Word Forms Worksheet: Noun, Verb, Adjective

Vocabulary lesson 26: Word families · Set 761 · 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: Write a short ___ of your best friend. (a) descriptive (b) description (c) descriptively (d) describe
2. 2.Which word is a verb? (a) success (b) successful (c) successfully (d) succeed
3. 3.Choose the right form: There is a big ___ between a frog and a toad. (a) different (b) differently (c) difference (d) differ
4. 4.Which word is an adverb? (a) create (b) creative (c) creatively (d) creation
5. 5.Choose the right form: She is a ___ doctor in Pune. (a) succeed (b) successful (c) successfully (d) success
6. 6.Which word is a noun? (a) attract (b) attraction (c) attractively (d) attractive
7. 7.Which word is an adjective? (a) attractively (b) attraction (c) attract (d) attractive
8. 8.Choose the right form: You must ___ which book to read first. (a) decisively (b) decision (c) decide (d) decisive
9. 9.Which word is an adjective? (a) destruction (b) destructive (c) destroy (d) destructively
10. 10.Which word is a noun? (a) protectively (b) protective (c) protect (d) protection
11. 11.Which word is a verb? (a) simply (b) simplify (c) simplicity (d) simple
12. 12.Which word is a noun? (a) decisively (b) decision (c) decide (d) decisive
13. 13.Which word is a noun? (a) creatively (b) creation (c) create (d) creative
14. 14.Which word is a noun? (a) beautify (b) beautiful (c) beautifully (d) beauty
15. 15.Which word is a verb? (a) decisive (b) decision (c) decisively (d) decide
16. 16.Choose the right form: My sister and I like ___ games. (a) differently (b) differ (c) difference (d) different
17. 17.Which word is a noun? (a) purify (b) pure (c) purity (d) purely
18. 18.Choose the right form: Do not play near the railway track; it is ___. (a) dangerous (b) dangerously (c) endanger (d) danger
19. 19.Choose the right form: Everyone looked at the dancer with ___. (a) admirably (b) admire (c) admiration (d) admirable
20. 20.Choose the right form: Bright flowers ___ bees. (a) attraction (b) attract (c) attractive (d) attractively
21. 21.Choose the right form: Can you ___ Dad to buy a puppy? (a) persuasive (b) persuasion (c) persuasively (d) persuade
22. 22.Choose the right form: The telephone was a great ___. (a) inventive (b) invent (c) inventively (d) invention
23. 23.Which word is an adjective? (a) simplify (b) simply (c) simplicity (d) simple
24. 24.Which word is a noun? (a) dangerous (b) dangerously (c) danger (d) endanger
25. 25.Choose the right form: If you practise daily, you will ___. (a) successful (b) successfully (c) success (d) succeed
26. 26.Choose the right form: Termites can ___ wooden furniture. (a) destruction (b) destructive (c) destructively (d) destroy
27. 27.Which word is an adverb? (a) description (b) descriptive (c) descriptively (d) describe
28. 28.Which word is a noun? (a) persuade (b) persuasively (c) persuasion (d) persuasive
29. 29.Which word is a verb? (a) persuade (b) persuasively (c) persuasive (d) persuasion
30. 30.Which word is an adverb? (a) protectively (b) protection (c) protect (d) protective
31. 31.Which word is a noun? (a) successfully (b) success (c) succeed (d) successful
32. 32.Choose the right form: Please explain it ___; I am only seven! (a) simply (b) simple (c) simplify (d) simplicity
33. 33.Choose the right form: Tara spoke ___ and won the debate. (a) persuasive (b) persuasion (c) persuade (d) persuasively
34. 34.Choose the right form: Kashmir is famous for its natural ___. (a) beautiful (b) beauty (c) beautifully (d) beautify
35. 35.Which word is an adverb? (a) simple (b) simplicity (c) simplify (d) simply
36. 36.Which word is an adverb? (a) imagine (b) imaginative (c) imagination (d) imaginatively
37. 37.Choose the right form: Meera sings ___. (a) beautiful (b) beautify (c) beauty (d) beautifully
38. 38.Choose the right form: Use your ___ to write a story about a flying elephant. (a) imagination (b) imaginatively (c) imagine (d) imaginative
39. 39.Choose the right form: Your honesty is ___. (a) admire (b) admiration (c) admirably (d) admirable
40. 40.Which word is a noun? (a) admirable (b) admirably (c) admire (d) admiration

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