English Vocabulary Exercises – Nouns? Verbs? Both! With derivations! - Exercise 13-3

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. There is a meeting scheduled for tomorrow to give everyone an _______________ on the current status of our project.
2. We _______________ the jars of cherries, and put them on a shelf in the basement.
3. We made _______________ copies of our honeymoon photos so we could give a set to my parents, who paid for our trip.
4. The house offers _______________ of the ocean from the second floor.
5. The boys were peeking through a _______________ in the wall into the girl's change room.
6. The street is on a real _______________, and it can be tiring for old people to walk up and down the road every day.
7. I accidentally sat on my cell phone and broke it because I forgot it was in the back _______________ of my jeans.
8. The children have received a big _______________ from your uncle in India, and are dying to open it.
9. The baby _______________ at her wet diaper and began to cry.
10. The newspaper boy _______________ onto his bicycle, and rode away.
11. We have been _______________ the enemy submarine for about 50 kilometres.
12. I'm going to see if I can _______________ some friends to help us move all our stuff over to our new apartment.
13. The women had _______________ a beautiful pattern of roses on the blanket.
14. The employment _______________ for Canada looks good for the coming years because so many peopole will be retiring.