Word Formation-Nouns Worksheet-1

Word Formation-Nouns Worksheet-1

Multiple-Choice Questions:

Give the abstract noun form of:

1. able

(A) Ableness     (B) Ability          (C) Ablity           (D) Ably

2. abundant

(A) Abundance                              (B) Abundantly

(C) Abundunce                              (D) Abandoned

3. active

(A) Actively       (B) Activate       (C) Activeness (D) Acted

4. brave

(A) Braving       (B) Bravery       (C) Bravely        (D) Braved

5. brief

(A) Briefly         (B) Briefing       (C) Brevity         (D) Briefed

6. broad

(A) Broadly       (B) Breadth       (C) Breath         (D) Breathe

7. busy

(A) Busily          (B) Business      (C) Busied         (D) Busybody

8. calm

(A) Calmness    (B) Calamity     (C) Calmly         (D) Calmed

9. certain

(A) Certainly     (B) Certify         (C) Certainty     (D) Certainess

10. cheap

(A) Cheaply       (B) Cheapness  (C) Chapity       (D) Chapter

11. civil

(A) Civilly          (B) Civility         (C) Civilness     (D) uncivil

12. false

(A) Falsely         (B) Falsify         (C) Falsed          (D) falsehood

13. fast

(A) Fastly           (B) Faster          (C) Fastest         (D) Fastness

14. financial

(A) Finance                                    (B) Financially

(C) Financed                                  (D) Financiality

15. deep

(A) Depth          (B) Deeply         (C) Deepen        (D) Deepening

Answers:

1. (B)

Exp: Ability is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of ‘able.’

2. (A)

Exp: Abundance is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of abundant.

3. (C)

Exp: Activeness is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of ‘active.’

4. (B)

Exp: Bravery is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of ‘brave.’

5. (C)

Exp: Brevity is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of ‘brief.’

6. (B)

Exp: Breadth is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of ‘broad’

7. (B)

Exp: Business is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of ‘busy.’

8. (A)

Exp: Calmness is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of ‘calm.’

9. (C)

Exp: Certainty is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of certain.

10. (B)

Exp: Cheapness is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of cheap.

11. (B)

Exp: Civility is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of civil.

12. (D)

Exp: Falsehood is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of false.

13. (D)

Exp: Fastness is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of fast.

14. (A)

Exp: Finance is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of financial.

15. (A)

Exp: Depth is an abstract noun and hence it is the required noun form of deep.