Build Smarter Words: Advanced Word Families for Class 7 

This Grade 7 worksheet focuses on advanced word families, helping students understand how words are connected through common roots, prefixes, and suffixes. By working with pairs like “educate–education,” “create–creation,” and “happy–happiness,” learners explore how word forms change across nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs while still retaining a core meaning. 
 

Why Word Families Matter in Grammar? 

Word families are not just about grouping similar words—they reveal how language is structured. For Grade 7 learners, this topic is important because: 
1. It helps students recognize patterns in word formation. 
2. It improves vocabulary by connecting related words. 
3. It builds accuracy in choosing correct word forms in sentences. 
4. It strengthens grammar across parts of speech. 

 

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

This worksheet includes five structured exercises that focus on recognition, application, and correction:

🧠 Exercise 1 – True or False 
Students evaluate statements about word families, such as how prefixes and suffixes affect meaning and whether words in a family share identical meanings (page 3).

✏️ Exercise 2 – Sort the Words 
Learners classify word pairs into same-family and different-family groups:

Same Family: 
- educate – education 
- happy – happiness 
- act – action 
- create – creation 
- drive – driver 
- read – reader 
- quick – quickly 
- play – player 
- move – movement 
- teach – teacher 
- help – helper 
- care – careful 

Different Family: 
- write – right 
- pen – pencil 
- table – chair 

📋 Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks 
Students choose the correct word form from given pairs to complete sentences accurately, applying knowledge of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs (page 5).

📝 Exercise 4 – Multiple Choice Questions 
MCQs test understanding of correct word forms in context, ensuring grammatical accuracy and proper usage (pages 6–7).

🔁 Exercise 5 – Sentence Rewriting 
Students correct incorrect word forms in sentences, reinforcing proper usage and strengthening word family understanding (page 8).

 

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)
 

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

Exercise 2 – Sort the Words 

Same Family: 
- educate – education 
- happy – happiness 
- act – action 
- create – creation 
- drive – driver 
- read – reader 
- quick – quickly 
- play – player 
- move – movement 
- teach – teacher 
- help – helper 
- care – careful 

Different Family: 
- write – right 
- pen – pencil 
- table – chair 

Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks 
1. confidently 
2. performance 
3. confident 
4. explain 
5. organisation 
6. clearly 
7. leadership 
8. decide 
9. creative 
10. well 

Exercise 4 – Multiple Choice Questions 
1. b) execute 
2. c) confidently 
3. b) perform 
4. c) clearly 
5. a) decision 
6. b) explanation 
7. a) leadership 
8. c) creative 
9. d) successfully 
10. d) conclusion 

Exercise 5 – Sentence Rewriting 
1. She gave a very clear explanation in class. 
2. His performance in the match was excellent. 
3. The teacher praised her achievement. 
4. The team showed strong determination. 
5. He made a quick decision in class. 
6. Her imagination helped her write stories. 
7. The project needs proper planning. 
8. His communication skills are improving. 
9. She gave useful information in the meeting. 
10. The artist showed great creativity in work. 

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