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Worksheets2.2 / 1.1 A2 EXAM - GRAMMAR & WORD FORMATION
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 8mins
A _________ to begin with, are words that name a person, a place, a thing or even an idea. Examples of which are person, place, thing, idea and many more.
noun
adjective
verb
An ___________ is a word basically used to describe or modify the noun.
adjective
verb
noun
This group of words are adjectives:
beauty, force, intelligence
beautiful, intelligent, clever
This is a group of nouns:
darkness, height, fence, storm.
tall, fancy, stormy, dark
the adjective for history is:
historan
historical
The noun of beautiful is:
beauty
beast
The noun for culture is:
cultural
culturally
The adjective of friend is:
friendship
friendly
The correct adjective for a situation is:
interested
interesting
interest
The correct adjective for people is:
boring
bored
There are four main kinds of word formation:
prefixes, suffixes, conversion and compounds.
prefixes, suffixes, convention and combined.
We add _________before the base or stem of a word.
suffixes
prefixes
conversion
compounds
We add _________ after the base or stem of a word. Their main purpose is to show what class of word it is (e.g. noun or adjective).
compounds
suffixes
conversion
prefixes
Some prefixes are commonly used to create _______________. In modern English the prefix e- is used to create new words that are connected with the Internet and the use of the Internet:
e-bank, e-cards, e-commerce, e-learning
Almost any noun may potentially combine with any other noun to form new noun compounds (e.g. computer virus, carbon footprint, quality time).
new words
compound words
back-formation
loan words
A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there
noun
verb
adjective
adverb
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
adverb
adjective
verb
noun
What _____________________ did Anna give you for not finishing her report? (explain)
expalin
explanation
Nick's ______________ in love. His partners always leave him! (luck)
unlucky
luck
PayPal is a safe way of making a _______________ online. (pay)
payment
pay
The house next door is for __________________. I'd love to buy it! (sell)
sold
sale
Paolo won't pass the written part of the FCE exam. He writes very _______________ and doesn't check for mistakes. (careless)
care
carelessly
Be _______________ not to break your leg on the first day of your skiing holiday! (care)
careless
careful
____________________, it rained on our wedding day, but we had a great day anyway. (fortune)
Unfortunately
Fortunately
If you buy the washing machine today, we can guarantee next-day ________________ (deliver)
delivering
delivery
These sandals are so ____________________ (comfort). It feels as if I'm not wearing anything on my feet.
comfortableness
comfortable
