Grade-7 ELA Practice

Active and Passive Voice

• Active and Passive Voice
• Changing from Passive to Active

Verbs

• Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

Adjectives

• Coordinate and Cumulative Adjectives
• Hyphenated Adjectives

Adverbs

• Transition with Conjunctive Adverbs

Sentences

• Complex and Compound-Complex Sentences

Shift in Verb Tenses

• Appropriate and Inappropriate Shifts in Verb Tense

Question Tags

• Tag Questions
• Positive and Negative Tag Questions
• Question Tags

Direct and Indirect Objects

• Compound Direct and Indirect Objects

Phrases

• Identifying Noun Phrases
• Identifying Verb Phrases
• Adjectival and Adverbial Phrases
• Phrase or Clause?
• Identifying Participial Phrases
• Identifying Appositives and Appositive Phrases

Phrasal Verbs

• Phrasal Verbs with Prepositions and Adverbs

Modifiers

• Recognizing and Correcting Dangling Modifiers
• Recognizing and Correcting Misplaced Modifiers

Verbals

• Choosing between Gerunds and Infinitives

Direct and Indirect Speech

• Converting Indirect Speech into Direct Speech

Root Words

• Greek and Latin Root Words

Compound Words

• Forming Plurals of Compound Nouns

Commonly Confused Words

• Confused Words Vain, Vein, and Vane

Collocations

• Collocations
• Collocations with Time

Connotations and Denotations

• Positive, Neutral, and Negative Connotations

Homographs

• Identifying Meanings of Words in Context

Analogies

• Identifying the Types of Analogies
• Analogies

Personification

• Personification with Everyday Objects

Hyperbole

• Hyperbole
• Completing Sentences with Hyperbole

Oxymorons

• Writing Oxymorons

Allusions

• Interpreting Meanings of Allusions

Mixed Figures of Speech

• Classifying Figures of Speech
• Proverbs and Idioms
• Similes, Metaphors, and Personification

Editing and Proofreading

• Which Spelling Is Correct?
• Identifying and Correcting Misspelled Words
• Removing Redundant Words
• Correcting Parallel Structures