Word Formation

Edison replied very _____, “Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We know that there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb.

• confident

• confidence

• confide

• confidently

There was once a man who wished his small, noisy house was larger and _____.

• quieter

• quiet

• more quiet

• the quieter

But U2 are rather _____ from other big rock bands.

• different

• difference

• differ

• differently

Also, they talk about serious problems. They are great _____ of Amnesty International and Greenpeace.

• support

• supporting

• supporter

• supporters

The first book on travel, _____ called Travel, was published by Jehan de Mandeville in 1357.

• suit

• suitable

• suitably

• suiting

She stood _____ gazing at the sun all day.

• happy

• happily

• happying

• happied

This program will also allow Ukrainian universities to cooperate _____ with European universities.

• more closely

• closelier

• more close

• most close

The three sons were overjoyed. They went to the field and started _____.

• search

• searched

• to search

• to searching

A portion called the Darien Gap, mostly jungle about 100 miles (160 km) long located in Panama and Colombia, remains _____.

• uncomplete

• uncompleted

• uncompleting

• no complete

A workman, 1) _____ wood by the side of a river, let his axe drop by accident into a deep lake.

• cut

• cutted

• cutting

• is cutting