Eliminate the Extra: Mastering Wordiness Reduction for Grade 7 Writing 

This Grade 7 worksheet on Eliminating Wordiness helps students learn how to make sentences shorter, clearer, and more effective by removing unnecessary or repetitive words. Through MCQs, fill-in-the-blanks, true/false identification, underlining repetition, and rewriting tasks, learners develop strong editing skills and improve sentence precision, clarity, and academic writing quality.

Why Eliminating Wordiness Matters in Grammar? 

Removing unnecessary words is essential for effective communication. For Grade 7 learners, this topic is important because: 
1. It helps students write clear and concise sentences. 
2. It removes repetition and improves readability. 
3. It strengthens editing and proofreading skills. 
4. It improves academic writing and communication quality.

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

This worksheet includes five structured activities that help students reduce wordiness and improve clarity:

🧠 Exercise 1 – Choose the Word to Remove 
Students identify the unnecessary word that creates repetition or wordiness in sentences.

✏️ Exercise 2 – Fill in the Blanks (Word Bank) 
Students complete sentences using concise transition words like *therefore, furthermore, meanwhile,* and *accordingly*.

📋 Exercise 3 – True or False 
Students check whether sentences are clear and free from wordiness.

📝 Exercise 4 – Underline the Wordiness 
Students identify repeated or unnecessary words in sentences.

📚 Exercise 5 – Replace Wordy Phrases 
Students rewrite sentences using concise expressions from the word bank.

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – Choose the Word to Remove 
1. c) fast 
2. b) is 
3. a) small 
4. c) again 
5. b) end 
6. c) out 
7. a) down 
8. a) together 
9. c) free 
10. b) completely 



Exercise 2 – Fill in the Blanks 
1. therefore 
2. subsequently 
3. alternately 
4. furthermore 
5. accordingly 
6. subsequently 
7. similarly 
8. nonetheless 
9. meanwhile 
10. henceforth 



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



Exercise 4 – Underline the Wordiness 
1. very quickly fast 
2. back home again 
3. down 
4. small little 
5. inside 
6. final end 
7. loudly out 
8. completely, fully 
9. free gift 
10. together, hall room 



Exercise 5 – Replace Wordy Phrases 
1. Because 
2. fewer 
3. If 
4. can 
5. to 
6. because 
7. to 
8. If 
9. can 
10. Decided 
11. fewer 

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