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Vocabulary Worksheets 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. That’s

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 doesn’t 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 won’t need a doctor.

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

c. If you eat too many apples, you’ll get sick.

2. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

a. It’s 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, don’t worry if things aren’t

perfect.

b. If a barrel of apples has one bad apple in it,

it’s 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, “Don’t 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 doesn’t 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: What’s 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, there’s a funny French movie at the University

Cinema.

A: Let’s 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: What’s up, Josh?

B: I flunked the math test. I _______.

6. A: Oh, waiter, I can’t eat this fish.

B: What’s wrong with it?

A: It _______!

awful = terrible chef = professional cook flunked = failed


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B S I M P L E

N A A W F U L

G P R R K K K

T R U E N Z M

I I O U T G W

N N L U O Y C

R F B M P D J

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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B S I M P L E

N A A W F U L

G P R R K K K

T R U E N Z M

I I O U T G W

N N L U O Y C

R F B M P D J

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