Friday 27 June 2014

Unit 4 - Noun and adjective forms


Which is correct?
"He is intelligent" or " he is intelligence"

Let's take a look at the adjective form of nouns.

These words will help you build your vocabulary and will, hopefully, stop you from using the wrong word in the wrong context. It makes your English sound very strange when you use an adjective instead of a noun (or vice-versa).

Take a look at this, mostly complete, A-Z and then answer with the correct word to complete the sentences below.


Noun
Adjective
Anger
Angry
Beauty
Beautiful
Craziness
Crazy
Danger
Dangerous
Ease
Easy
Familiarity
Familiar
Guilt
Guilty
Happiness
Happy
Intelligence
Intelligent
Juice
Juicy
Kindness
Kind
Luck
Lucky
Misery
Miserable
Nature
Natural
Offense
Offensive
Pain
Painful
Question
Questionable
Romance
Romantic
Strength
Strong
Truth
True
Ugliness
Ugly
Violence
Violent
Warmth
Warm
Youth
Young
Zeal
Zealous

Answer:
1- there's no need to get _________ with me. (anger / angry)

2-There is a _______ of him losing his job. (danger / dangerous)

3-He completed the exam with __________ (ease / easy)

4-If you didn't do it, why do you look so __________? (guilty / guilt)

5-I put the _________of my family above all other things. (happy / happiness)

6-She's the most____________person I have ever met. (Intelligence / intelligent)

7-To have _________is important when you gamble. (lucky / luck)

8-It was nice to see the animals in their __________ environment. (nature / natural)

9-I have a ________ in my shoulder. (pain / painful)

10-Not everything you read in the newspaper is ________ (true / truth)

Monday 2 June 2014