CAE Word formation

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CAE Use of English

Word formation

Tips

• Make sure you read the title and the complete text first before attempting to answer any questions. Having an overview of the content will sometimes help you to identify the form of missing words.
• Decide whether the missing word is a noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb etc.
• Pay attention to the sentence containing the gap and decide if the missing word has a positive or negative meaning.
• If the word is a noun does it need to be in the plural form?

How to improve

When reading a text in English try to divide long words into their stem/root, prefix and suffix. When doing test exercises on your own you should use a dictionary to check the spelling of your answer is correct. 

Step 1: Which word type do you need?

Noun, verb, adjective or adverb?

1. Collecting garden gnomes might seem an unusual ..... , but many people do it.     ACTIVE

2. Professor Watkins wasn't only an   .......  to me, but to thousands of others lucky enough to have met him.                                                                                                                                               INSPIRE

3. For someone so young, Carl is a very literate and ....... young man.                                ELOQUENCE

4. The new year ..... in this area of the country involve dancing and drinking.               CELEBRATE

5. The ......  of the Rubik's Cube peaked in the early 1980s.                                                      POPULAR

6. This  work is very .....  and difficult to understand.                                                                  CONCEPT

7. Tom ........  told us he wasn't coming, then he turns up with two guests!                      INITIAL

8. It is the bride's father who has ........... paid for a wedding.                                                  TRADITION

Step 2: is it positive or negative?

1. The leader of the trade union campaigned ....... for reelection. In the end he was beaten by 12 points.                                                                                                                                                           SUCCESS

 2. This wine has a very sour flavour to it and a ..... after-taste. I really don't like it.    PLEASE

3. ........  as it may seem, mammoths were alive only five thousand years ago.           CREDIBLE

4.  As is ......... the case when I go to a restaurant, I ate too much and spent a fortune!

VARIABLE

5. Local planners admit they .... the number of tourists that would come for the festival.

ESTIMATE

6. Many of the houses are considered to be .......... and will be torn down by the end of the month. SAFE

Step 3: singular or plural?

1. People with ...... have been campaigning for better access to public buildings    ABLE.

2. When I heard what the company was paying I accepted the job without ..... .       HESITATE

3. Very few countries still have forms of corporal .....  in their laws.                                 PUNISH

4. Children's books contain very beautiful ................                                                                ILLUSTRATE

5. We have some brand new  .............. in our club                                                                      EQUIP

6. ......... will be served in the hall in the afternoon .                                                                  REFRESH

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Practice materials

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/word-formation/word-formation-index.htm

https://www.examenglish.com/CAE/cae_use_of_english_part3.htm

Objective Advanced

pages: 91, 99, 126 

TIP:

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