Make It Stand Out: Using Grammar for Emphasis in Grade 7  

This Grade 7 worksheet focuses on using grammar techniques to add emphasis and highlight key ideas in sentences. Students learn how to make their writing more impactful through structures like cleft sentences, inversion, and emphasis words. Through engaging exercises such as multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, true/false identification, underlining emphasis, and sentence rewriting, learners develop expressive and effective writing skills.

Why Using Grammar for Emphasis Matters in Grammar?  

Using emphasis helps students highlight important ideas clearly. For Grade 7 learners, this topic is important because:  
1. It strengthens clarity by focusing attention on key information.  
2. It improves writing style and expression.  
3. It helps students vary sentence structures effectively.  
4. It enhances both spoken and written communication.

What’s Inside This Worksheet?  

This worksheet includes five grammar-rich activities that build mastery in emphasis:

🧠 Exercise 1 – Choose the Sentence with Stronger Emphasis  
Students identify sentences that effectively highlight the main idea. Example: “It was the scientist who made the discovery.”

✏️ Exercise 2 – Fill in the Blanks  
Students use emphasis words from a word bank to complete sentences meaningfully.

✔️ Exercise 3 – True or False  
Students evaluate whether sentences demonstrate emphasis.

📋 Exercise 4 – Underline the Emphasis  
Students identify words or phrases that create emphasis in sentences.

📝 Exercise 5 – Sentence Rewriting  
Students rewrite sentences using different grammatical structures to add emphasis.

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – Multiple Choice  
1. b   2. b   3. c   4. b   5. b   6. c   7. c   8. a   9. c   10. b  

Exercise 2 – Fill in the Blanks  
1. only   2. clearly   3. even   4. exactly   5. especially  
6. precisely   7. particularly   8. just   9. strongly   10. exactly  

Exercise 3 – True / False  
1. True  
2. False  
3. True  
4. False  
5. False  
6. False  
7. True  
8. False  
9. False  
10. True  

Exercise 4 – Underline the Part Creating Emphasis  
1. In the final seconds  
2. Never had the audience seen  
3. extremely effective  
4. At that very moment  
5. not by luck, but through consistent effort  
6. Rarely do students  
7. its impact on future research was greater  
8. Under no circumstances  
9. surprisingly overlooked  
10. In the middle of the experiment  

Exercise 5 – Sentence Rewriting (Sample Answers)  
1. It was after months of effort that the results improved.  
2. It was the students who completed the task successfully.  
3. It was the storm that caused serious damage to the village.  
4. It was the speaker who delivered an inspiring message.  
5. It was through practice that the team achieved success.  
6. It was the discovery that changed the direction of research.  
7. It was the artist who captured the beauty of the scene.  
8. It was the decision that affected everyone in the group.  
9. It was the experiment that produced unexpected results.  
10. It was the player who showed great determination during the match.  

Help your child express ideas powerfully and confidently by mastering emphasis techniques in grammar today. 

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