Abstract nouns | Class 8 worksheets
These lessons are based on Macmillan English Ferry Textbook and workbook for Class 8 students.
Formation of abstract nouns from adjectives and verbs.
Abstract nouns can be formed from adjectives and verbs.
Examples are given below:
Beautiful (adjective) – beauty (abstract noun)
Clear – clarity
Pleasant – pleasure
Exhaustive – exhaustion
Exercise
Choose the correct abstract noun from the given options.
1. Clear
a) clearness
b) clarity
c) clearable
d) clearment
2. Permanent
a) permanently
b) permanence
c) permanentable
d) permanence
3. Cogent
a) cogenticity
b) cogency
c) cogence
d) cogenence
4. Depreciate
a) depreciable
b) depreciate
c) depreciation
d) deprecience
5. Averse
a) aversive
b) aversion
c) adverse
d) aversiveness
6. Coincidental
a) coincidence
b) coincide
c) coincidate
d) coincidential
7. Generous
a) generative
b) generosity
c) general
d) generation
8. Allocate
a) allocation
b) allocasion
c) allocatence
d) allocative
9. Appreciative
a) appreciation
b) appreciable
c) appreciate
d) appreciatively
10. Constructive
a) construction
b) constructively
c) construct
d) constructiveness
11. Compassionate
a) compassion
b) compassioness
c) compassionativeness
d) compassive
12. Probable
a) probability
b) probableness
c) probabation
d) probabity
Answers
1. Clear (adjective) – clarity (noun)
2. Permanent (adjective) – permanence (noun)
3. Cogent (adjective) – cogency (noun)
4. Depreciate (verb) – depreciation (noun)
5. Averse (adjective) – aversion (noun)
6. Coincidental (adjective) – coincidence (noun)
7. Generous (adjective) – generosity (noun)
8. Allocate (adjective) – allocation (noun)
9. Appreciative (adjective) – appreciation (noun)
10. Constructive (adjective) – construction (abstract noun)
11. Compassionate (adjective) – compassion (abstract noun)
12. Probable (adjective) – probability (abstract noun)
