Here is a list of English skills students learn in class VII! These skills are organised into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practising, just click on any link. Nexustutor will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
A.1 Determine the main idea of a passage
B.1 Match the quotations with their themes
B.2 Determine the themes of short stories
C.1 Identify author’s purpose
C.2 Which sentence is more formal?
C.3 Compare passages for tone
D.1 Compare and contrast in informational texts
D.2 Match causes and effects in informational texts
D.3 Match problems with their solutions
D.4 Identify text structures
E.1 Interpret figures of speech
E.2 Classify figures of speech
E.3 Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
F.1 Analyse short stories
G.1 Read and understand informational passages
G.2 Trace an argument
H.1 Compare two texts with different genres
I.1 Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects
J.1 Order topics from broadest to narrowest
J.2 Organise information by main idea
J.3 Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
K.1 Distinguish facts from opinions
K.2 Choose evidence to support a claim
K.3 Identify supporting details in informational texts
K.4 Identify supporting details in literary texts
K.5 Identify counterclaims
L.1 Use personification
M.1 Use parallel structure
M.2 Remove redundant words or phrases
M.3 Use the correct frequently confused word
M.4 Correct errors with frequently confused words
M.5 Suggest appropriate revisions
N.1 Identify plagiarism
O.1 Words with pre-
O.2 Words with re-
O.3 Words with sub-
O.4 Words with mis-
O.5 Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
O.6 Words with -ful
O.7 Words with -less
O.8 Words with -able and -ible
P.1 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
P.2 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
P.3 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
P.4 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Q.1 Choose the synonym
Q.2 Choose the antonym
R.1 Use the correct homophone
R.2 Which definition matches the sentence?
R.3 Which sentence matches the definition?
S.1 Describe the difference between related words
S.2 Positive and negative connotation
T.1 Analogies
T.2 Analogies: challenge
U.1 Find words using context
U.2 Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
U.3 Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
U.4 Use context to identify the meaning of a word
V.1 Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
W.1 Alphabetical order
W.2 Use guide words
W.3 Use dictionary entries
W.4 Use dictionary definitions
W.5 Use thesaurus entries
X.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
X.2 Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
X.3 Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence
X.4 Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence
X.5 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
X.6 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
X.7 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
Phrases and clauses
Y.1 Is it a phrase or a clause?
Y.2 Identify appositives and appositive phrases
Y.3 Identify dependent and independent clauses
Y.4 Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
Y.5 Combine sentences using relative clauses
Z.1 Form and use plurals: review
Z.2 Form and use plurals of compound nouns
Z.3 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
Z.4 Form the singular or plural possessive
Z.5 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
AA.1 Identify pronouns and their antecedents
AA.2 Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent
AA.3 Identify vague pronoun references
AA.4 Identify all of the possible antecedents
AA.5 Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
BB.1 Choose between subject and object pronouns
BB.2 Compound subjects and objects with ‘I’ and ‘me’
BB.3 Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
BB.4 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
BB.5 Use reflexive pronouns
BB.6 Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
BB.7 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
BB.8 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
CC.1 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
CC.2 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
DD.1 Correct errors with subject-verb agreement
DD.2 Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
DD.3 Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
EE.1 Irregular past tense: review
EE.2 Simple past, present and future tense: review
EE.3 Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
EE.4 Form the progressive verb tenses
EE.5 Form the perfect verb tenses
FF.1 Identify adjectives
FF.2 Order adjectives
FF.3 Identify adverbs
FF.4 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
FF.5 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
FF.6 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
FF.7 Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
FF.8 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
FF.9 Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
GG.1 Identify prepositional phrases
HH.1 Is it a direct object or an indirect object?
II.1 Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
JJ.1 Misplaced modifiers with pictures
JJ.2 Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
JJ.3 Are the modifiers used correctly?
KK.1 Commas with non-restrictive elements
LL.1 Commas with compound and complex sentences
LL.2 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters
LL.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
MM.1 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
MM.2 Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
NN.1 Use dashes
NN.2 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
NN.3 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
OO.1 Correct capitalisation errors
OO.2 Capitalising titles
PP.1 Formatting titles
PP.2 Formatting and capitalising titles: review