Worksheet 1.: Nouns and Adjectives

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Basic English Grammar, 3

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Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers

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Worksheet 1. Nouns and adjectives

Write the nouns and adjectives in the sentences in the correct columns.

1. Do you like Italian food?
2. We sat at the kitchen table and ate dinner.
3. Grammar is an interesting subject.
4. I have a red grammar book.
5. We bought a beautiful rug in China.
6. She has an important job in the police department.

Adjectives Nouns used as
adjectives
Nouns
1. Italian food
2. kitchen table, dinner
3.
4.
5.
6.

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Worksheet 2. Nouns and adjectives

Complete the sentences. Choose the correct words from the word pool and put it in
the blank spaces. Use one word for each space. You may want to use the mini-
glossary below.

bookstore car chemistry dishes electric
favorite university Vietnamese

1. This car can run on a battery. It has enough energy from the
battery to go for 40 miles or 64 kilometers. It is an
_______________ _______________.

2. Tonight we are going to my ____________________
____________________________ restaurant.
I like it because they always serve delicious vegetarian
____________________________ from Vietnam. Thats
good for me because I am a vegetarian.

3. Kate works in the _____________________________
_____________________________. She knows every
____________________ book in the store. Within two
minutes, she can find the history texts, the engineering
texts, the poetry books, the _____________________ texts, the
reference books - everything a student or
professor needs.

battery = an object that supplies electricity
energy= power from electricity, coal, oil, etc.
vegetarian= a person who doesnt eat meat
within= inside of

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Worksheet 3. Reading: Johnny Appleseed

Read the passage. Then answer the questions on the next page.

Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Appleseed was an American pioneer* and a
legend. He loved apples. He grew apple trees and
traveled around many places in the United States of
America to bring apple trees to the people. Many people
think that Johnny Appleseed was an imaginary character,
but he was a real person. He was born in Massachusetts in 1774 and lived for
70 years.

Johnny had good farming skills. He planted apple trees and took good care of
them. He supplied apple seeds to the early settlers in the Mid-west of the
USA, the large part of the land in the middle of the country, far from the
oceans. He owned tree farms in several states. He sold many trees, but gave
away many, too. He was very successful, but he lived a simple life. He was
kind and generous and friendly to everyone. And he did funny things! He
liked to walk in his bare feet, and he wore his tin cooking pot on his head as
he traveled.

His real name was John Chapman, but people called him Johnny Appleseed
because of his great love for apples and their seeds. Johnny spent 50 years
growing apple trees and spreading them successfully all over the land.

*The people who traveled west in
the United States and made their
homes in new places were called
pioneers.
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Worksheet 3, page 2

Circle True if the sentence is true, and False if the sentence is false, according to the
passage about Johnny Appleseed.

1. Johnny Appleseed was a real person.

True / False
2. He traveled in the eastern part of the USA.

True / False
3. He grew vegetables and sold them.

True / False
4. He was unsuccessful.

True / False
5. He was generous and nice.

True / False
6. He always wore shoes.

True / False
7. He wore a hat that was really a pot.

True / False
8. He spread apples and apple trees all over the
country.

True / False
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Worksheet 4. Vocabulary review

Complete the sentences. Circle the correct word in parentheses.

1. Something that is not real and is only in your head is
(true/ imaginary).
2. An popular old story that may be true, or not, is a (fact / legend)

3. A person in a book, a play, or movie is a (character / comic).

4. Farmers (buy / supply) food to the markets.

5. People call the land that is not near the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific
Ocean, but is in the middle of the United States, the (Midwest /
Midnorth).

6. A person who is nice to other people and cares about them is (kind /
funny).

7. If you (own / owe) something, it is yours. It belongs to you.

8. Flowers and plants grow from (seeds / fruit).

9. People who are the first to live somewhere are (settlers / cooks).

10. (Tiny / Great) means very large.

11. Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, was a kind
of (pioneer / farmer) in space travel.

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Complete the sentences. Choose the correct word from the word pool and write it in
the blank space.

away bare care generous pot simple
skills spread successful tin

1. When you get the result you want, you are
____________________.

2. Parents take ____________________ of their children.
3. Something that is easy to do is ____________________.
4. A person who is willing to give time, money, or things to others is
a ____________________ person.

5. You cook food in a ____________________.

6. Cans with food in them are ____________________ cans.

7. I got my hat from Aunt Bessie. She gave ____________________
all her old hats.
8. Things that you do well are ____________________.
9. Fire quickly ____________________ through the building.

10. The sun burned his ____________________
skin.

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Worksheet 6. Apples

Here are three common sayings about apples. Read each one, and guess the meaning
of the saying. Circle the letter of your choice.

1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

a. If you eat one apple every day, you will be
healthy and you wont need a doctor.

b. Give away an apple to the doctor every day.

c. If you eat too many apples, youll get sick.

2. The apple doesnt fall far from the tree.

a. Its easy to pick apples because they fall very
near the tree. So, do things that are easy for
you.

b. Apples come from seeds, and new apples turn
out like old apples. In the same way, a
person turns out to be like his or her parents.

c. It may be harmful to sit under an apple tree
because an apple might fall on you. So, always be
careful of danger.

3. One bad apple ruins the whole barrel!

a. A barrel of apples always has a few bad
apples in it. So, dont worry if things arent
perfect.

b. If a barrel of apples has one bad apple in it,
its OK. In the same way, if only one person
in a group is bad, the group is OK.

c. If a barrel of apples has one bad apple in it, all the
apples are bad. In the same way, one bad person in
a group ruins the whole group.
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Complete the sentences. Choose a word from the word pool and write it in the
blank space.

away barrel danger group pick ruin

1. A sign in the zoo says, Keep ________________
from the big turtles. It means, Dont go near the
turtles.

2. The farm workers _______________ apples in the
summer and oranges in the winter.

3. This sign on the highway means,
__________________! Falling
rocks!

4. If you put more salt in this soup, it will
________________ it. It is just perfect now.

5. A _________________ of oil equals 159 litres of oil.

6. A small _________________ of children
crossed the street. Their teacher followed them.

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Worksheet 8. Vocabulary review: Opposites

Complete the sentences in Column A with words that are opposites. Write the letter
of the correct word in Column B in the blank space in Column A.

Column A Column B
1. The opposite of bare is ____. a. real
2. The opposite of imaginary is ____. b. difficult
3. The opposite of nice is ____. c. safe
4. The opposite of great is ____. d. come near
5. The opposite of simple is ____. e. rude
6. The opposite of successful is ____. f. awful
7. The opposite of harmful is ____. g. improve
8. The opposite of ruin is ____. h. small
9. The opposite of wonderful is ____. i. covered
10. The opposite of keep away is ____. j. failing

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Worksheet 9. Using nouns as adjectives

Check all possible completions.

1. Mom baked a delicious apple _______.
tree pie farm

2. I bought a new battery at a place that sells automobile _______.
parts licenses accidents

3. My aunt and uncle have 1,200 chickens on their chicken _______.
soup farm salad

4. John is a famous football _______.
game player field

5. We bought a new kitchen _______.
table sink bush

6. I read about the university _______.
buildings students professors

7. There are serious problems with the city _______.
streets traffic government

8. I like summer _______.
weather vacation rivers

9. Yes, I know the office _______.
building manager farm

10. Do you have a new computer _______?
problem desk screen

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Worksheet 10. Which word doesnt belong?

Check the word that does not belong in each group.

1. O kind O cold O nice O generous

2. O big O great O huge O little

3. O want O possess O own O have

4. O ruin O fix O spoil O hurt

5. O harmful O unsafe O easy O dangerous

6. O seed O skill O ability O knowledge

7. O single O group O class O crowd

8. O barrel O box O onion O can

9. O pioneer O settler O last one O first one

10. O battery O energy O tree O electricity

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Worksheet 11.Vocabulary review

Cross out the word or words that do not go with the adjective in bold. In some
items, all words are correct.

1. These things can be harmful:
fire wind hair

2. These things can be simple:
tin apples problems

3. These things can be bare:
trees skin clouds

4. These things can be delicious:
fruit cake vegetables

5. These things can be successful:
trips careers chickens

6. These things can be tin:
cans roofs water

7. These things can be great:
music times oceans

8. These things can be electric:
stoves doors cars

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Worksheet 12. Linking verbs and adjectives

Complete the conversations. Write the letter of the correct phrase from the word
pool in the blank space.

a. feel really terrible
b. sounds good
c. seem very happy
d. taste delicious
e. smells good
f. tastes awful

1. A: Whats cooking, Chef Arnaldo?
B: Some beautiful white bean soup. Do you want some?
A: Yes, please! It sure _______!

2. A: Have a chocolate chip cookie!
B: Thanks! Mmm they _______!

3. A: What do you want to do tonight?
B: Well, theres a funny French movie at the University
Cinema.
A: Lets see it. It _______.

4. A: Rita and Andy finally got married!
B: They did? After all these years? Well, how are they?
A: They _______.

5. A: Whats up, Josh?
B: I flunked the math test. I _______.

6. A: Oh, waiter, I cant eat this fish.
B: Whats wrong with it?
A: It _______!

awful = terrible chef = professional cook flunked = failed
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Worksheet 13. Word search game

Find 8 words from Chapter 14. The letters of the words may be horizontal, vertical,
or diagonal.

All the words are from Chapter 14. Clues to the words are under this puzzle. The
gray shading shows the first letter of a word.

CLUES:
1. Terrible
2. Without a cover
3. Fail a test
4. Some people together
5. Easy
6. You cook in this.
7. Make something bad
8. A metal
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Answer Key

Worksheet 1

Adjectives Nouns used as adjectives Nouns
1. Italian food
2. kitchen table, dinner
3. interesting grammar, subject
4. red grammar book
5. beautiful rug, China
6. important police job, department

Worksheet 2
1. electric car
2. favorite Vietnamese / dishes
3. university bookstore / every / chemistry

Worksheet 3
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. False
5. True
6. False
7. True
8. True

Worksheet 4
1. imaginary
2. legend
3. character
4. supply
5. mid-west
6. kind
7. own
8. seeds
9. settlers
10. Great
11. pioneer



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Worksheet 5
1. successful
2. care
3. simple
4. generous
5. pot
6. tin
7. away
8. skills
9. spread
10. bare

Worksheet 6
1. a
2. b
3. c

Worksheet 7
1. away
2. pick
3. danger
4. ruin
5. barrel
6. group

Worksheet 8
1. i. covered
2. a. real
3. e. rude
4. h. small
5. b. difficult
6. j. failing
7. c. safe
8. g. improve
9. f. awful
10. d. come near

Worksheet 9
1. pie
2. parts
3. farm
4. player
5. table /sink


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6. building / students / professors
7. streets / traffic / government
8. weather / vacation
9. building / manager
10. problem / desk / screen

Worksheet 10
1. cold
2. little
3. want
4. fix
5. easy
6. seed
7. single
8. onion
9. last one
10. tree

Worksheet 11
1. hair
2. problems
3. clouds
4. [All three are correct.]
5. chickens
6. water

Worksheet 12
1. e.
2. d.
3. b.
4. c.
5. a.
6. f.



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Worksheet 13

1. awful
2. bare
3. flunk
4. group
5. simple
6. pot
7. ruin
8. tin



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Word List

away
awful
bare
barrel
beautiful
bookstore
building
care
character
chemistry
chicken
China
Chinese
city
classes
cloud
cold
college
come near
covered
danger
day
desk
difficult
dishes
easy
electric car
every
excellent
failing
farm
favorite
fix
flunk
food
generous
government
great
group
hair
heavy
highway

history
imaginary
important
improve
Italian
job
kind
last
legend
little
manager
Midwest
onion
own
part
pick
pie
pioneer
player
pot
problem
professor
rainy
real
rude
rug
ruin
sad
safe
screen
seed
settler
simple
single
sink
skill
small
spread
street
student
successful
supply

table
tin
traffic
tree
university
vacation
Vietnamese
want
water
weather

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