Grade 7 2024 Scholarship

Select the best explanation for this idiom:

it's raining cats and dogs

• It is stormy with strong winds and heavy rain

• It is raining a lot

• There are cats and dogs everywhere you look

• There are cats and dogs running away from the storm

What are the correct antonyms for the following:

reparable; contagious; correct; humane; logical

• repair

  contract

  correction

  humans

  logicable

• repaired

  contracted

  corrected

  human

  logic

• unreparable

  uncontagious

  incorrect

  unhumane

  non-logical

• irreparable

  uncontagious

  incorrect

  inhumane

  illogical

Turn these adjectives into nouns:

dangerous; fantastic; scientific; fictional

• dangerously fantastically

  scientifically

  fictionally

• endangered

  fanatical

  conscience

  non-fiction

• danger

  fantasy

  science

  fiction

• safe

  poor

  non-scientific

  real

Select the best definition for a proverb and an idiom.

• A proverb is an old saying that gives advise

• An idiom is an old saying that gives advise

• An idiom is a phrase (group of words) that has different meaning to what it seems to say

• An proverb is a phrase (group of words) that has different meaning to what it seems to say

Turn these nouns into adjectives:

impossibility; orient; colour; care

• impossible

  oriental

  colourful

  careful

• possible

  orientation

  colourful

  careless

• impossible

  oriented

  coloured

  careful

• impossible

  oriental

  colouring

  careless

What is the root noun for these adverbs?

collectively; critically; humourlessly; bascially

• collection

  criticisize

  funny

  basic

• collect

  crisis

  humour

  basis

• collection

  crisis

  humour

  basis

• collect

  critical

  humour

  basic

Identify the preposition in the first sentence.

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(a)  

Identify the pronoun in the third sentence.

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(a)  

The sun kissed me while I was clicking a picture.

Which figurative language tool is represented above?

• similie

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

In language, what do you call a group of letters that can attach to the beginning of a root word to change its meaning? Type your answer below.

(a)