Word Forms Worksheet: Noun, Verb, Adjective

Vocabulary lesson 26: Word families · Set 85 · 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 adjective? (a) succeed (b) successful (c) successfully (d) success
2. 2.Choose the right form: Can you ___ Dad to buy a puppy? (a) persuade (b) persuasively (c) persuasive (d) persuasion
3. 3.Choose the right form: Termites can ___ wooden furniture. (a) destruction (b) destructively (c) destroy (d) destructive
4. 4.Which word is an adjective? (a) admirable (b) admirably (c) admire (d) admiration
5. 5.Choose the right form: The Taj Mahal is a famous tourist ___. (a) attractive (b) attractively (c) attraction (d) attract
6. 6.Which word is a verb? (a) invention (b) inventively (c) invent (d) inventive
7. 7.Which word is an adverb? (a) destructive (b) destructively (c) destruction (d) destroy
8. 8.Choose the right form: Write a short ___ of your best friend. (a) descriptively (b) description (c) describe (d) descriptive
9. 9.Which word is an adjective? (a) decision (b) decide (c) decisive (d) decisively
10. 10.Which word is a noun? (a) purely (b) purity (c) purify (d) pure
11. 11.Which word is a verb? (a) protection (b) protect (c) protectively (d) protective
12. 12.Choose the right form: Let us ___ a poster for Earth Day. (a) creative (b) creatively (c) create (d) creation
13. 13.Choose the right form: There is a big ___ between a frog and a toad. (a) differently (b) different (c) difference (d) differ
14. 14.Choose the right form: Meera sings ___. (a) beauty (b) beautiful (c) beautifully (d) beautify
15. 15.Which word is a verb? (a) simplicity (b) simply (c) simplify (d) simple
16. 16.Choose the right form: Tara spoke ___ and won the debate. (a) persuasive (b) persuasion (c) persuasively (d) persuade
17. 17.Choose the right form: Plastic waste can ___ sea animals. (a) dangerously (b) endanger (c) dangerous (d) danger
18. 18.Which word is an adverb? (a) decisively (b) decisive (c) decision (d) decide
19. 19.Which word is a noun? (a) destructive (b) destructively (c) destroy (d) destruction
20. 20.Which word is a verb? (a) decision (b) decisively (c) decisive (d) decide
21. 21.Choose the right form: Your honesty is ___. (a) admiration (b) admirably (c) admire (d) admirable
22. 22.Choose the right form: Painting helps children become more ___. (a) create (b) creation (c) creatively (d) creative
23. 23.Which word is a noun? (a) persuade (b) persuasion (c) persuasively (d) persuasive
24. 24.Choose the right form: You must ___ which book to read first. (a) decision (b) decide (c) decisively (d) decisive
25. 25.Which word is an adjective? (a) protection (b) protect (c) protectively (d) protective
26. 26.Which word is a noun? (a) succeed (b) successful (c) success (d) successfully
27. 27.Choose the right form: The telephone was a great ___. (a) inventive (b) inventively (c) invention (d) invent
28. 28.Which word is a noun? (a) protective (b) protection (c) protectively (d) protect
29. 29.Choose the right form: My sister and I like ___ games. (a) differ (b) difference (c) different (d) differently
30. 30.Which word is an adjective? (a) creatively (b) create (c) creative (d) creation
31. 31.Choose the right form: Wear a helmet for ___ while cycling. (a) protect (b) protection (c) protective (d) protectively
32. 32.Which word is an adjective? (a) simply (b) simplicity (c) simple (d) simplify
33. 33.Choose the right form: If you practise daily, you will ___. (a) success (b) successful (c) successfully (d) succeed
34. 34.Choose the right form: Please explain it ___; I am only seven! (a) simplify (b) simplicity (c) simple (d) simply
35. 35.Choose the right form: Hard work is the key to ___. (a) succeed (b) success (c) successful (d) successfully
36. 36.Which word is an adverb? (a) persuasively (b) persuasion (c) persuade (d) persuasive
37. 37.Which word is a verb? (a) imagination (b) imaginative (c) imaginatively (d) imagine
38. 38.Which word is a noun? (a) beautify (b) beautifully (c) beauty (d) beautiful
39. 39.Choose the right form: She is a ___ doctor in Pune. (a) success (b) successfully (c) succeed (d) successful
40. 40.Which word is a noun? (a) create (b) creative (c) creation (d) creatively

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