Word Forms Worksheet: Noun, Verb, Adjective

Vocabulary lesson 26: Word families · Set 871 · 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 a noun? (a) purity (b) purify (c) purely (d) pure
2. 2.Choose the right form: The telephone was a great ___. (a) inventive (b) inventively (c) invention (d) invent
3. 3.Which word is a verb? (a) beauty (b) beautiful (c) beautifully (d) beautify
4. 4.Which word is an adjective? (a) description (b) descriptive (c) descriptively (d) describe
5. 5.Which word is a noun? (a) invention (b) inventively (c) invent (d) inventive
6. 6.Choose the right form: Bright flowers ___ bees. (a) attractive (b) attract (c) attraction (d) attractively
7. 7.Choose the right form: The storm caused great ___ in the village. (a) destructive (b) destructively (c) destroy (d) destruction
8. 8.Which word is an adverb? (a) persuasive (b) persuasion (c) persuasively (d) persuade
9. 9.Which word is a verb? (a) admirably (b) admiration (c) admirable (d) admire
10. 10.Choose the right form: Hard work is the key to ___. (a) successfully (b) successful (c) succeed (d) success
11. 11.Which word is a verb? (a) protective (b) protection (c) protectively (d) protect
12. 12.Choose the right form: If you practise daily, you will ___. (a) success (b) successfully (c) succeed (d) successful
13. 13.Which word is an adverb? (a) admiration (b) admirable (c) admirably (d) admire
14. 14.Which word is an adverb? (a) succeed (b) success (c) successful (d) successfully
15. 15.Which word is an adjective? (a) creative (b) creatively (c) create (d) creation
16. 16.Which word is an adverb? (a) decision (b) decide (c) decisive (d) decisively
17. 17.Choose the right form: Termites can ___ wooden furniture. (a) destruction (b) destructively (c) destructive (d) destroy
18. 18.Which word is an adjective? (a) simplify (b) simply (c) simplicity (d) simple
19. 19.Which word is an adjective? (a) beauty (b) beautify (c) beautifully (d) beautiful
20. 20.Which word is a noun? (a) creation (b) creative (c) create (d) creatively
21. 21.Choose the right form: My sister and I like ___ games. (a) difference (b) differ (c) differently (d) different
22. 22.Which word is an adverb? (a) protection (b) protective (c) protect (d) protectively
23. 23.Choose the right form: Can you ___ Dad to buy a puppy? (a) persuasively (b) persuasive (c) persuade (d) persuasion
24. 24.Choose the right form: Your honesty is ___. (a) admirably (b) admire (c) admiration (d) admirable
25. 25.Choose the right form: Can you ___ the picture in five sentences? (a) description (b) descriptively (c) descriptive (d) describe
26. 26.Choose the right form: Write a short ___ of your best friend. (a) descriptively (b) description (c) descriptive (d) describe
27. 27.Choose the right form: Please explain it ___; I am only seven! (a) simplicity (b) simplify (c) simple (d) simply
28. 28.Which word is an adverb? (a) beauty (b) beautify (c) beautiful (d) beautifully
29. 29.Which word is an adjective? (a) destructive (b) destruction (c) destroy (d) destructively
30. 30.Which word is an adjective? (a) protective (b) protection (c) protect (d) protectively
31. 31.Choose the right form: The Taj Mahal is a famous tourist ___. (a) attract (b) attractively (c) attractive (d) attraction
32. 32.Which word is an adverb? (a) danger (b) dangerous (c) endanger (d) dangerously
33. 33.Choose the right form: Wear a helmet for ___ while cycling. (a) protective (b) protection (c) protectively (d) protect
34. 34.Which word is a verb? (a) imaginative (b) imagine (c) imagination (d) imaginatively
35. 35.Which word is an adverb? (a) destroy (b) destructive (c) destructively (d) destruction
36. 36.Choose the right form: Meera sings ___. (a) beautify (b) beautifully (c) beauty (d) beautiful
37. 37.Which word is an adverb? (a) inventive (b) invent (c) inventively (d) invention
38. 38.Choose the right form: Do not play near the railway track; it is ___. (a) dangerously (b) endanger (c) danger (d) dangerous
39. 39.Choose the right form: Plastic waste can ___ sea animals. (a) danger (b) dangerously (c) endanger (d) dangerous
40. 40.Choose the right form: The rocket was ___ launched. (a) successful (b) success (c) successfully (d) succeed

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