Grade 7 Grammar & vocabulary worksheet

What is on the worksheet

1. Which word names a person who teaches?

   1. retaught
   2. teachable
   3. teacher
   4. teaching

2. English grammar essentials: which term fits this description? A word that can stand in for a noun phrase.

   1. Synonym
   2. Independent clause
   3. Pronoun
   4. Dependent clause

3. Add un- to fair. Write the new word.

4. English grammar essentials: which term fits this description? A short expression of feeling such as wow or oh.

   1. Adjective
   2. Pronoun
   3. Antonym
   4. Interjection

5. Use the meaning of un- to explain unfamiliar.

6. Which sentence avoids an unnecessary apostrophe in a plural?

   1. Three buses arrived.
   2. Three bus's arrived.
   3. Three buse's arrived.
   4. Three buses' arrived.

7. Which word means able to be washed?

   1. washing
   2. washer
   3. washable
   4. unwashed

8. English grammar essentials: which term fits this description? A word or word group expressing an action, occurrence or state.

   1. Complex sentence
   2. Adjective
   3. Verb
   4. Dependent clause

9. English grammar essentials: which term fits this description? A meaningful element added after a base word.

   1. Noun
   2. Phrase
   3. Suffix
   4. Interjection

10. In hopeful, -ful suggests

    1. again
    2. without
    3. before
    4. full of or having

11. Add punctuation to this direct speech: Mina said I have the map

12. In preview, pre- most directly means

    1. before
    2. after
    3. across
    4. not

13. English grammar essentials: which term fits this description? A sentence joining two or more independent clauses.

    1. Adjective
    2. Compound sentence
    3. Pronoun
    4. Independent clause

14. Which semicolon joins two independent clauses correctly?

    1. We waited; for the rain.
    2. The rain; stopped outside.
    3. The rain stopped; the match resumed.
    4. Because it rained; heavily.

15. Choose the noun: run, blue, river, slowly.

    1. river
    2. slowly
    3. run
    4. blue

16. English grammar essentials: which term fits this description? A clause that can stand as a complete sentence.

    1. Independent clause
    2. Pronoun
    3. Predicate
    4. Homophone

17. English grammar essentials: which term fits this description? A word pronounced like another word but with a different meaning.

    1. Homophone
    2. Phrase
    3. Preposition
    4. Noun

18. English grammar essentials: which term fits this description? The part of a clause that states something about the subject.

    1. Suffix
    2. Predicate
    3. Preposition
    4. Phrase

19. English grammar essentials: which term fits this description? A clause that cannot normally stand alone as a complete sentence.

    1. Adjective
    2. Dependent clause
    3. Conjunction
    4. Predicate

20. Explain the difference between Let's eat, Sam and Let's eat Sam.