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Skills available for India class IV English curriculum
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LI At the primary level, knowledge of grammar is to be seen mainly as a process of discovering uses and functions of items through exposure to spoken and written inputs. However, for material writers, teachers and evaluators, the following items may provide a framework of reference.
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LI.1 nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs
- Which word is a noun? (III-LL.1)
- Identify nouns (III-LL.2)
- Identify nouns – with abstract nouns (III-LL.3)
- Identify common and proper nouns (III-LL.4)
- Form regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies (III-LL.5)
- Use regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies (III-LL.6)
- Is the noun singular or plural? (III-LL.7)
- Form and use irregular plurals (III-LL.8)
- Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives (III-LL.9)
- Form the singular or plural possessive (III-LL.10)
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (III-LL.11)
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns (III-MM.1)
- Replace the noun with a personal pronoun (III-MM.2)
- Compound subjects and objects with 'I' and 'me' (III-MM.3)
- Identify possessive pronouns (III-MM.4)
- Use possessive pronouns (III-MM.5)
- Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns (III-MM.6)
- Use reflexive pronouns (III-MM.7)
- Identify personal pronouns (III-MM.8)
- Use the correct article: a or an (III-QQ.1)
- Use the correct article: a, an or the (III-QQ.2)
- Identify articles (III-QQ.3)
- Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many? (III-RR.1)
- Identify the adjective that describes the noun (III-RR.2)
- Identify adjectives (III-RR.3)
- Does the adverb tell you how, when or where? (III-RR.4)
- Identify adverbs (III-RR.5)
- Choose between adjectives and adverbs (III-RR.6)
- Is the word an adjective or adverb? (III-RR.7)
- Use adjectives to compare (III-RR.8)
- Spell adjectives that compare (III-RR.9)
- Use adverbs to compare (III-RR.10)
- Which word is a noun? (IV-EE.1)
- Identify nouns (IV-EE.2)
- Identify nouns – with abstract nouns (IV-EE.3)
- Identify common and proper nouns (IV-EE.4)
- Form regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies (IV-EE.5)
- Use regular plurals with -s, -es and -ies (IV-EE.6)
- Form regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves (IV-EE.7)
- Use regular plurals with -s, -es, -ies and -ves (IV-EE.8)
- Is the noun singular or plural? (IV-EE.9)
- Form and use irregular plurals (IV-EE.10)
- Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives (IV-EE.11)
- Form the singular or plural possessive (IV-EE.12)
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (IV-EE.13)
- Identify personal pronouns (IV-FF.1)
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns (IV-FF.2)
- Replace the noun with a personal pronoun (IV-FF.3)
- Compound subjects and objects with 'I' and 'me' (IV-FF.4)
- Identify possessive pronouns (IV-FF.5)
- Use possessive pronouns (IV-FF.6)
- Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns (IV-FF.7)
- Use reflexive pronouns (IV-FF.8)
- Identify relative pronouns (IV-FF.9)
- Use relative pronouns: who and whom (IV-FF.10)
- Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that (IV-FF.11)
- Use the correct article: a or an (IV-JJ.1)
- Use the correct article: a, an or the (IV-JJ.2)
- Identify articles (IV-JJ.3)
- Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many? (IV-KK.1)
- Identify the adjective that describes the noun (IV-KK.2)
- Identify adjectives (IV-KK.3)
- Order adjectives (IV-KK.4)
- Does the adverb tell you how, when or where? (IV-KK.5)
- Identify adverbs (IV-KK.6)
- Use relative adverbs (IV-KK.7)
- Choose between adjectives and adverbs (IV-KK.8)
- Is the word an adjective or adverb? (IV-KK.9)
- Use adverbs to compare (IV-KK.10)
- Spell adjectives that compare (IV-KK.11)
- Use adjectives with more and most (IV-KK.12)
- Use adjectives to compare (IV-KK.13)
- Identify nouns – with abstract nouns (V-FF.1)
- Identify common and proper nouns (V-FF.2)
- Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y (V-FF.3)
- Form and use plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o and y (V-FF.4)
- Form plurals: review (V-FF.5)
- Form and use plurals: review (V-FF.6)
- Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives (V-FF.7)
- Form the singular or plural possessive (V-FF.8)
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (V-FF.9)
- Identify personal pronouns (V-GG.1)
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns (V-GG.2)
- Replace the noun with a personal pronoun (V-GG.3)
- Compound subjects and objects with 'I' and 'me' (V-GG.4)
- Compound subjects and objects with personal pronouns (V-GG.5)
- Use possessive pronouns (V-GG.6)
- Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns (V-GG.7)
- Use reflexive pronouns (V-GG.8)
- Identify relative pronouns (V-GG.9)
- Use relative pronouns: who and whom (V-GG.10)
- Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that (V-GG.11)
- Identify adjectives (V-KK.1)
- Order adjectives (V-KK.2)
- Identify adverbs (V-KK.3)
- Use relative adverbs (V-KK.4)
- Choose between adjectives and adverbs (V-KK.5)
- Is the word an adjective or adverb? (V-KK.6)
- Use adjectives to compare (V-KK.7)
- Spell adjectives that compare (V-KK.8)
- Use adjectives with more and most (V-KK.9)
- Use adverbs to compare (V-KK.10)
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LI.2 is, am, are, has, have
- Identify main verbs and helping verbs (III-NN.3)
- To be: use the correct form (III-PP.11)
- To have: use the correct form (III-PP.12)
- Identify main verbs and helping verbs (IV-GG.3)
- To be: use the correct form (IV-II.9)
- To have: use the correct form (IV-II.10)
- Use the progressive verb tenses (IV-II.13)
- Form the progressive verb tenses (IV-II.14)
- Use the perfect verb tenses (IV-II.16)
- Form the perfect verb tenses (IV-II.17)
- Identify main verbs and helping verbs (V-HH.1)
- Use the progressive verb tenses (V-JJ.6)
- Form the progressive verb tenses (V-JJ.7)
- Use the perfect verb tenses (V-JJ.9)
- Form the perfect verb tenses (V-JJ.10)
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LI.3 tense forms (simple present and present continuous, simple past and past continuous)
- Which sentence is in the regular past tense? (III-PP.1)
- Identify verbs in the regular past tense (III-PP.2)
- Form and use the regular past tense (III-PP.3)
- Identify the irregular past tense I (III-PP.4)
- Identify the irregular past tense II (III-PP.5)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1 (III-PP.6)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2 (III-PP.7)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3 (III-PP.8)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4 (III-PP.9)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 5 (III-PP.10)
- Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense? (III-PP.13)
- Which sentence is in the regular past tense? (IV-II.1)
- Identify verbs in the regular past tense (IV-II.2)
- Form and use the regular past tense (IV-II.3)
- Identify the irregular past tense (IV-II.4)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1 (IV-II.5)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2 (IV-II.6)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3 (IV-II.7)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4 (IV-II.8)
- Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense? (IV-II.11)
- Use the progressive verb tenses (IV-II.13)
- Form the progressive verb tenses (IV-II.14)
- Choose between the past tense and past participle (IV-II.15)
- Use the perfect verb tenses (IV-II.16)
- Form the perfect verb tenses (IV-II.17)
- Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense? (V-JJ.1)
- Form and use the regular past tense (V-JJ.2)
- Form and use the irregular past tense (V-JJ.3)
- Form and use the simple past, present and future tense (V-JJ.4)
- Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense (V-JJ.5)
- Use the progressive verb tenses (V-JJ.6)
- Form the progressive verb tenses (V-JJ.7)
- Choose between the past tense and past participle (V-JJ.8)
- Use the perfect verb tenses (V-JJ.9)
- Form the perfect verb tenses (V-JJ.10)
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LI.4 expressing future (will and be going to)
- Change the sentence to future tense (III-PP.14)
- Identify main verbs and helping verbs (IV-GG.3)
- Is the sentence in the past, present or future tense? (IV-II.11)
- Change the sentence to future tense (IV-II.12)
- Use the progressive verb tenses (IV-II.13)
- Form the progressive verb tenses (IV-II.14)
- Use the perfect verb tenses (IV-II.16)
- Form the perfect verb tenses (IV-II.17)
- Form and use the simple past, present and future tense (V-JJ.4)
- Use the progressive verb tenses (V-JJ.6)
- Form the progressive verb tenses (V-JJ.7)
- Use the perfect verb tenses (V-JJ.9)
- Form the perfect verb tenses (V-JJ.10)
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LI.5 articles
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LI.6 this, that, these, those (as determiners and empty subjects)
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LI.7 question words
- Is the sentence a statement, question, command or exclamation? (III-KK.1)
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (IV-DD.1)
- Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that (IV-FF.11)
- Use the correct modal verb (IV-GG.5)
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (V-EE.1)
- Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that (V-GG.11)
- Use the correct modal verb (V-HH.3)
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LI.8 an, or, but
- Use coordinating conjunctions (III-W.3)
- Identify coordinating conjunctions (III-TT.1)
- Use coordinating conjunctions (IV-Q.2)
- Is the sentence simple or compound? (IV-DD.8)
- Identify coordinating conjunctions (IV-MM.1)
- Use coordinating conjunctions (V-O.2)
- Is the sentence simple or compound? (V-EE.8)
- Is the sentence simple, compound or complex? (V-EE.9)
- Identify coordinating conjunctions (V-MM.1)
- Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions (V-MM.3)
- Fill in the missing correlative conjunction (V-MM.4)
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LI.9 punctuation marks (full stop, comma, question mark and inverted commas)
- Use coordinating conjunctions (III-W.3)
- Use subordinating conjunctions (III-W.4)
- Is the sentence a statement, question, command or exclamation? (III-KK.1)
- Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? (III-KK.5)
- Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? (III-KK.6)
- Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on? (III-KK.7)
- Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives (III-LL.9)
- Form the singular or plural possessive (III-LL.10)
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (III-LL.11)
- Identify coordinating conjunctions (III-TT.1)
- Identify subordinating conjunctions (III-TT.2)
- Pronoun-verb contractions (III-UU.1)
- Contractions with 'not' (III-UU.2)
- Commas with direct addresses and after introductory words (III-VV.1)
- Use coordinating conjunctions (IV-Q.2)
- Use subordinating conjunctions (IV-Q.3)
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (IV-DD.1)
- Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? (IV-DD.5)
- Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? (IV-DD.6)
- Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on? (IV-DD.7)
- Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives (IV-EE.11)
- Form the singular or plural possessive (IV-EE.12)
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (IV-EE.13)
- Identify coordinating conjunctions (IV-MM.1)
- Identify subordinating conjunctions (IV-MM.2)
- Pronoun-verb contractions (IV-NN.1)
- Contractions with 'not' (IV-NN.2)
- Commas with direct addresses and after introductory words (IV-OO.1)
- Use coordinating conjunctions (V-O.2)
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (V-EE.1)
- Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? (V-EE.5)
- Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on? (V-EE.6)
- Identify dependent and independent clauses (V-EE.7)
- Is the sentence simple, compound or complex? (V-EE.9)
- Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives (V-FF.7)
- Form the singular or plural possessive (V-FF.8)
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (V-FF.9)
- Identify coordinating conjunctions (V-MM.1)
- Identify subordinating conjunctions (V-MM.2)
- Pronoun-verb contractions (V-NN.1)
- Contractions with 'not' (V-NN.2)
- Commas with direct addresses, introductory words and interjections (V-OO.1)
- Commas with compound and complex sentences (V-OO.2)
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LI.10 possessive adjectives
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LI.11 prepositions
- Identify prepositions (III-SS.1)
- Identify prepositions and their objects (III-SS.2)
- Identify prepositional phrases (III-SS.3)
- Prepositions: review (III-SS.4)
- Identify prepositions (IV-LL.1)
- Identify prepositions and their objects (IV-LL.2)
- Identify prepositional phrases (IV-LL.3)
- Prepositions: review (IV-LL.4)
- Identify prepositions (V-LL.1)
- Identify prepositions and their objects (V-LL.2)
- Identify prepositional phrases (V-LL.3)
- Prepositions: review (V-LL.4)