Word Formation-Nouns Worksheet-3

Word Formation-Nouns Worksheet-3

Multiple-Choice Questions:

Give the abstract noun form of:

1. live

(A) Alive             (B) Living          (C) Life               (D) Lived

2. laugh

(A) Laughter     (B) Laughing    (C) Laughed      (D) Laughingly

3. free

(A) Freely          (B) Freeing        (C) Freedom     (D) Freed

4. captain

(A) Captaincy   (B) Captained   (C) Captainly    (D) Captained

5. good

(A) Goodly         (B) Goodness    (C) Godly           (D) Goodliness

6. thieve

(A) Thief            (B) Thieving      (C) Theft            (D) Thieves

7. just

(A) Justly           (B) Justice         (C) Unjust         (D) Unjustly

8. partial

(A) Impartial    (B) Partiality     (C) Partially      (D) Partly

9. young

(A) Youngish     (B) Youngly       (C) Youthful      (D) Youth

10. dead

(A) Died             (B) Death           (C) Deadly         (D) Die

11. beautiful

(A) Beauty                                      (B) Beautifully

(C) Beautifulish                            (D) Beautily

12. one

(A) Only             (B) Oneness      (C) Oneish         (D) Onish

13. move

(A) Moment                                   (B) Movement

(C) Moving                                     (D) Moved

14. dark

(A) Darkness    (B) Darkly         (C) Darken        (D) Darkening

15. honest

(A) Honestly                                  (B) Honourable

(C) Honesty                                    (D) Honorary

16. honourable

(A) Honour       (B) Honored     (C) Honorary    (D) Honest

17. horrible

(A) Horrid         (B) Horrify        (C) Horror         (D) Horribly

18. humorous

(A) Humour                                   (B) Humorously

(C) Humourless                            (D) Humorist

19. humiliate

(A) Humility                                  (B) Humiliation

(C) Humble                                    (D) Humiliating

20. humble

(A) Humiliation                            (B) Humility

(C) Humidity                                 (D) Humbling

21. proper

(A) Properly      (B) Property      (C) Propriety    (D) Improper

22. improve

(A) Improving                               (B) Improvable

(C) Improved                                 (D) Improvement

Answers:

1. (C)

Exp: Life is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of live.

2. (A)

Exp: Laughter is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of laugh.

3. (C)

Exp: Freedom is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of free.

4. (A)

Exp: Captaincy is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of captain.

5. (B)

Exp: Goodness is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of good.

6. (C)

Exp: Theft is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of thieve.

7. (B)

Exp: Justice is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of just.

8. (B)

Exp: Partiality is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of partial.

9. (D)

Exp: Youth is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of young.

10. (B)

Exp: Death is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of dead.

11. (A)

Exp: Beauty is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of beautiful.

12. (B)

Exp: Oneness is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of one.

13. (B)

Exp: Movement is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of move.

14. (A)

Exp: Darkness is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of dark.

15. (C)

Exp: Honesty is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of honest.

16. (A)

Exp: Honour is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of honourable.

17. (C)

Exp: Horror is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of horrible.

18. (A)

Exp: Humour is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of humorous.

19. (B)

Exp: Humiliation is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of humiliate.

20. (B)

Exp: Humility is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of humble.

21. (C)

Exp: Propriety is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of proper.

22. (D)

Exp: Improvement is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of improve.