Noun or Adjective Quiz

Adjectives are used ro give us more information about nouns.

A green chair. - Green is an adjective, it gives us more information about the noun, chair.

Adjectives are also used to modify pronouns. For example, It's the green one. Here the pronoun is 'one'.

We have to be careful when nouns are used in place of adjectives to give us more information about a noun. Compare these three sentences:

It's a house. - house is a noun.
It's a big house. - big is an adjective.
It's a family house.- family is a noun. This means there are two nouns in this sentence. The first one gives us more information about the second.

Read through these ten sentences and decide if a noun or adjective is needed:

• 1) Let's find a ___ place to cross the road.
  
  safety
  safe
  
  
• 2) There are ___ snakes in this village.
  
  danger
  dangerous
  
  
• 3) The ___ of this issue cannot be forgotten.
  
  importance
  important
  
  
• 4) James is known for his ___.
  
  honesty
  honest
  
  
• 5) Make sure you have a ___ breakfast.
  
  healthy
  health
  
  
• 6) Your daughter has a great ___.
  
  imaginary
  imagination
  
  
• 7) Well, that was a very ___ meeting.
  
  successful
  success
  
  
• 8) The dog is ___ of her puppies.
  
  protection
  protective
  
  
• 9) The thief admitted his ___.
  
  guilty
  guilt
  
  
• 10) Be ___ when you meet her parents.
  
  politeness
  polite