6 exercises — practise noun, verb, adjective and adverb forms for: deploy, configure, scale, maintain, deprecate, and more.
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Which sentence uses the correct form of "deploy"?
Option C — "deployment" is correct. The word family:
• Verb: deploy ("we will deploy at 14:00") • Noun: deployment ("the deployment failed", "a zero-downtime deployment") • Adjective: deployed ("the deployed version", "the service is deployed") • Adjective (ability): deployable ("the build is deployable", "a deployable artefact")
Why A is wrong: "the deploy" uses the verb as a noun — grammatically possible informally ("the deploy" in DevOps slang) but "the deployment" is standard technical English. Why B is wrong: "make a deployment of" is wordy; simply "deploy the service" or "the deployment of the service" works. Why D is wrong: "deploymented" does not exist — "deployed" is the past participle.
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Which sentence uses the correct form of "configure"?
Option B — "configurability" is correct. The word family:
• Verb: configure ("configure the load balancer") • Noun (result): configuration ("the configuration file", "a valid configuration") • Noun (quality): configurability ("ease of configurability") • Adjective: configurable ("configurable settings", "a highly configurable tool") • Past participle / adjective: configured ("the server is configured", "a pre-configured image")
Why A is wrong: "configurate" does not exist — the verb is "configure". Why C is wrong: "made a configuration of" — use "configured" or "the configuration of". Why D is wrong: "very configure" — "configure" is a verb, not an adjective.
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Choose the correct sentence about scalability.
Option C — "horizontal scaling" uses the gerund correctly. The word family:
Why A is wrong: "very scale" — "scale" is a verb, not an adjective. Why B is wrong: "scalability" is a noun, not a verb. Why D is wrong: "scalabled" does not exist.
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Which is the correct noun form of "maintain"?
"maintainability" is the correct noun referring to the quality of being easy to maintain. The word family:
• Verb: maintain ("we maintain the codebase") • Noun (activity): maintenance ("scheduled maintenance", "zero-downtime maintenance") — note the spelling: maintenance (not maintainance — common misspelling!) • Noun (quality): maintainability ("the maintainability of the code") • Adjective: maintainable ("clean, maintainable code") • Negative adjective: unmaintainable ("unmaintainable spaghetti code")
The common mistake is spelling maintenance as "maintainance" — the correct spelling is m-a-i-n-t-e-n-a-n-c-e.
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Fill in the blank: "The PR was rejected because the code was considered _____ — adding the feature would make future changes harder."
"unmaintainable" — the negative form of the adjective "maintainable" uses the prefix "un-". This is the standard technical usage: "unmaintainable code", "unmaintainable complexity".
Why "unmaintain" is wrong: you cannot prefix "un-" to a verb like this in English — "unmaintain" is not a word. Why "maintainless" is wrong: "-less" suffix means "without" (stateless, serverless) but attaches to nouns, not verbs. "Maintenance-free" would work but means a different thing (no maintenance needed, as a feature). Why "non-maintained" is wrong: "non-maintained" means actively not being maintained (abandoned software), not hard to maintain — a different concept.
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Which sentence correctly uses "deprecate" and its word family?
Option C correctly uses both "deprecated" (adjective/past participle) and "deprecation" (noun). The word family:
• Verb: deprecate ("we will deprecate this endpoint") • Past participle/adjective: deprecated ("the deprecated API", "this method is deprecated") • Noun: deprecation ("the deprecation notice", "scheduled for deprecation", "deprecation timeline")
Note on meaning: In software, "deprecated" means "still functional but marked for removal — do not use in new code". It does not mean "broken" or "removed". This is a key vocabulary point: a deprecated feature still works; a removed feature does not.
Why A is wrong: "has been deprecation" — "deprecation" is a noun, not a past participle. Why D is wrong: "will deprecation" — cannot use a noun as a verb.