Forming nouns from adjectives 1
✓ Useful for Cambridge B2/C1
✓ Useful for IELTS
DID YOU KNOW?
Word formation is a dedicated section of the Cambridge exam — and it’s highly learnable.
Cambridge Use of English Part 3 asks you to derive the correct word form from a given base. Converting adjectives to nouns is one of the most tested transformations: happy → happiness, responsible → responsibility, accurate → accuracy. Knowing which suffix to apply — and when the spelling changes — is a pattern-recognition skill that improves rapidly with targeted practice.
IELTS and TOEFL writing also reward this flexibility. A writer who can move fluidly between significant, significance, and significantly demonstrates the lexical range that pushes scores into Band 7+ and TOEFL 24+. This exercise builds that range one transformation at a time.
Word formation is a dedicated section of the Cambridge exam — and it’s highly learnable.
Cambridge Use of English Part 3 asks you to derive the correct word form from a given base. Converting adjectives to nouns is one of the most tested transformations: happy → happiness, responsible → responsibility, accurate → accuracy. Knowing which suffix to apply — and when the spelling changes — is a pattern-recognition skill that improves rapidly with targeted practice.
IELTS and TOEFL writing also reward this flexibility. A writer who can move fluidly between significant, significance, and significantly demonstrates the lexical range that pushes scores into Band 7+ and TOEFL 24+. This exercise builds that range one transformation at a time.
Convert each adjective into its noun form.
1. poor → ✓
2. vain → ✓
3. vacant → ✓
4. human → ✓
5. free → ✓
6. bitter → ✓
7. proud → ✓
8. cruel → ✓
9. happy → ✓
10. true → ✓
