Advanced Opposites: Antonym Skills Development for Class 7 

This Grade 7 grammar worksheet, “Advanced Opposites: Antonym Skills Development,” is designed to sharpen students’ ability to understand, analyse, and apply antonyms accurately in complex and real-world contexts. At this level, learners move beyond basic opposites to explore tone, precision, and intent in language. 

Through thoughtfully structured activities such as matching, sorting, fill-in-the-blanks, MCQs, and sentence rewriting, students work with higher-order antonym pairs like "honest/dishonest", "strict/lenient", "abstract/concrete", and "hostile/friendly". Each task promotes critical reading, logical reasoning, and nuanced vocabulary use — essential skills for middle school grammar mastery. 

Ideal for classroom learning, assessments, and independent practice, this worksheet supports Grade 7 English outcomes by strengthening vocabulary depth, sentence accuracy, and analytical thinking. 

Why Antonym Skills Matter in Grammar?

At the middle school level, antonyms play a crucial role in meaning and argument. For Grade 7 learners, this topic is important because: 
1. It helps students recognise contrast, bias, and tone in texts. 
2. It improves clarity and precision in formal writing and debate. 
3. It supports critical thinking by evaluating word choice and intent. 
4. It builds confidence in handling advanced vocabulary accurately. 

What’s Inside This Worksheet?

🧠 Exercise 1 – Match the Following
Students match advanced vocabulary words with their correct antonyms to reinforce meaning relationships. 

📋 Exercise 2 – Sort the Words 
Learners classify word pairs into antonyms and not antonyms, sharpening semantic judgement. 

✏️ Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks 
Students choose the most context-appropriate word from antonym pairs to complete complex sentences. 

❓ Exercise 4 – Multiple Choice Questions 
Learners identify the correct antonym based on tone, meaning, and sentence logic. 

📝 Exercise 5 – Sentence Rewriting
Students rewrite sentences by replacing incorrect words with their correct antonyms, improving precision and coherence. 

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators) 

Exercise 1 – Match the Following 
reward–punishment, spare–necessary, honest–dishonest, seldom–often, plain–fancy, friendly–hostile, grand–shameful, tidy–indifferent, polite–rude, prudent–imprudent 

Exercise 2 – Sort the Word Pairs 
Antonyms: abstract/concrete, honest/dishonest, spacious/cramped, grand/shameful, lustrous/lacklustre, friendly/hostile, interpret/misinterpret, graceful/awkward 
Not Antonyms: slim/rapid, spare/necessary, tidy/fancy, sow/reap, tidy/indifferent, old/friendly, total/partial 

Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks 
1. strict 
2. stale 
3. harsh 
4. unsafe 
5. thin 
6. cruel 
7. slow 
8. gloomy 
9. unstable 
10. coarse 

Exercise 4 – Choose the Antonym 
1. c) major 
2. d) transparent 
3. a) objective 
4. b) dense 
5. c) lenient 
6. a) formal 
7. d) stable 
8. b) friendly 
9. c) concrete 
10. a) simple 

Exercise 5 – Sentence Rewriting 
1. Being humble is a virtue. 
2. Akanksha brightened the lights to see the display clearly. 
3. Gurpreet eagerly opened his Diwali presents. 
4. They loved reunions and looked forward to them every year. 
5. A commuter opened the window to feel the breeze. 
6. Everybody has to attend the mandatory science exhibition. 
7. Shrita drove carefully over the dangerously narrow bridge. 
8. The listener spoke before clearing her throat. 
9. A sprinter sped up to finish sooner. 
10. Seema called a mechanic to fix her AC. 

Help your child master precision, tone, and contrast in language through advanced grammar practice. 
Build strong analytical and vocabulary skills essential for higher-level English learning. 

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