The document contains 12 worksheets that provide vocabulary exercises related to nouns and modifiers. The worksheets include activities like matching nouns and adjectives in sentences, completing sentences with vocabulary words, answering true/false questions about a reading passage, identifying opposites, and finding vocabulary words in a word search. The exercises are from Chapter 14 of the third edition of the textbook Basic English Grammar and focus on vocabulary terms introduced in the chapter on nouns and modifiers.

1. Vocabulary Worksheets
rd
Basic English Grammar, 3 Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
Worksheet 1. Nouns and adjectives
Write the nouns and adjectives in the sentences in the correct columns.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Do you like Italian food?
We sat at the kitchen table and ate dinner.
Grammar is an interesting subject.
I have a red grammar book.
We bought a beautiful rug in China.
She has an important job in the police department.
Adjectives
1. Italian
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Nouns used as
adjectives
Nouns
food
table, dinner
kitchen
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2. Vocabulary Worksheets
rd
Basic English Grammar, 3 Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
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 miniglossary below.
bookstore
favorite
car chemistry dishes
university Vietnamese
electric
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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3. Vocabulary Worksheets
rd
Basic English Grammar, 3 Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
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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4. Vocabulary Worksheets
rd
Basic English Grammar, 3 Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
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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5. Vocabulary Worksheets
rd
Basic English Grammar, 3 Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
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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6. Vocabulary Worksheets
rd
Basic English Grammar, 3 Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
Worksheet 5. Vocabulary review
Complete the sentences. Choose the correct word from the word pool and write it in
the blank space.
away
bare
skills
care
spread
generous
pot
successful
tin
simple
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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7. Vocabulary Worksheets
rd
Basic English Grammar, 3 Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
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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8. Vocabulary Worksheets
rd
Basic English Grammar, 3 Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
Worksheet 7. Vocabulary review
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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9. Vocabulary Worksheets
rd
Basic English Grammar, 3 Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
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
The opposite of keep away is ____.
j. failing
10.
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10. Vocabulary Worksheets
rd
Basic English Grammar, 3 Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
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
vacation
rivers
8. I like summer _______.
weather
9. Yes, I know the office _______.
building
manager
farm
10. Do you have a new computer _______?
problem
desk
screen
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11. Vocabulary Worksheets
rd
Basic English Grammar, 3 Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
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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12. Vocabulary Worksheets
rd
Basic English Grammar, 3 Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
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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13. Vocabulary Worksheets
rd
Basic English Grammar, 3 Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
Worksheet 12. Linking verbs and adjectives
Complete the conversations. Write the letter of the correct phrase from the word
pool in the blank space.
d. taste delicious
e. smells good
f. tastes awful
a. feel really terrible
b. sounds good
c. seem very happy
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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14. Vocabulary Worksheets
rd
Basic English Grammar, 3 Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
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.
B
N
G
T
I
N
R
S
A
P
R
I
N
F
I
A
R
U
O
L
B
M
W
R
E
U
U
M
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
P
F
K
N
T
O
P
L
U
K
Z
G
Y
D
E
L
K
M
W
C
J
8. A metal
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15. Vocabulary Worksheets
Basic English Grammar, 3rd Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
Answer Key
Worksheet 1
Adjectives
1. Italian
2.
3. interesting
4. red
5. beautiful
6. important
Nouns used as adjectives
kitchen
grammar
police
Nouns
food
table, dinner
grammar, subject
book
rug, China
job, department
Worksheet 2
1. electric car
2. favorite Vietnamese / dishes
3. university bookstore / every / chemistry
Worksheet 3
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
True
False
False
False
True
False
True
True
Worksheet 4
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
imaginary
legend
character
supply
mid-west
kind
own
seeds
settlers
Great
pioneer
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16. Vocabulary Worksheets
Basic English Grammar, 3rd Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
Worksheet 5
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
successful
care
simple
generous
pot
tin
away
skills
spread
bare
Worksheet 6
1. a
2. b
3. c
Worksheet 7
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
away
pick
danger
ruin
barrel
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.
2.
3.
4.
5.
pie
parts
farm
player
table /sink
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17. Vocabulary Worksheets
Basic English Grammar, 3rd Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
building / students / professors
streets / traffic / government
weather / vacation
building / manager
problem / desk / screen
Worksheet 10
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
cold
little
want
fix
easy
seed
single
onion
last one
tree
Worksheet 11
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
hair
problems
clouds
[All three are correct.]
chickens
water
[All three are correct.]
[All three are correct.]
Worksheet 12
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
e.
d.
b.
c.
a.
f.
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18. Vocabulary Worksheets
Basic English Grammar, 3rd Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
Worksheet 13
1. awful
2. bare
3. flunk
4. group
5. simple
6. pot
7. ruin
8. tin
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
R F
U O Y C
B M P D
J
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19. Vocabulary Worksheets
Basic English Grammar, 3rd Edition
Chapter 14: Nouns and Modifiers
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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