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Skills available for India class IX English curriculum
Objectives are in black and IXL English skills are in dark green. Hold your mouse over the name of a skill to view a sample question. Click on the name of a skill to practise that skill.
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- National Council of Education Research and Training Syllabus: Language Items National Council of Education Research and Training Syllabus: Language Items
- National Council of Education Research and Training Syllabus: Objectives National Council of Education Research and Training Syllabus: Objectives
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In addition to consolidating the grammatical items practised earlier, the courses at secondary level will seek to reinforce the following explicitly:
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sequence of tenses
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reported speech in extended texts
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modal auxiliaries (those not covered at upper primary)
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non-finites(infinitives, gerunds, participles)
- Identify participles and what they modify (IX-AA.3)
- Identify gerunds and their functions (IX-AA.4)
- Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases (IX-AA.5)
- Identify participles and what they modify (X-AA.3)
- Identify gerunds and their functions (X-AA.4)
- Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases (X-AA.5)
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conditional clauses
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complex and compound sentences
- Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons (IX-W.4)
- Identify dependent and independent clauses (IX-X.4)
- Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex? (IX-X.5)
- Combine sentences using relative clauses (IX-X.6)
- Commas with compound and complex sentences (IX-HH.2)
- Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses (IX-II.1)
- Semicolons, colons and commas: review (IX-II.3)
- Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons (X-W.4)
- Identify dependent and independent clauses (X-X.4)
- Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex? (X-X.5)
- Combine sentences using relative clauses (X-X.6)
- Commas with compound and complex sentences (X-HH.2)
- Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses (X-II.1)
- Semicolons, colons and commas: review (X-II.3)
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phrasal verbs and prepositional phrases
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cohesive devices
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punctuation (semicolon, colon, dash, hyphen, parenthesis or use of brackets and exclamation mark)
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (IX-W.1)
- Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses (IX-II.1)
- Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists (IX-II.2)
- Semicolons, colons and commas: review (IX-II.3)
- Use dashes (IX-JJ.1)
- Use hyphens in compound adjectives (IX-JJ.2)
- Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (X-W.1)
- Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses (X-II.1)
- Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists (X-II.2)
- Semicolons, colons and commas: review (X-II.3)
- Use dashes (X-JJ.1)
- Use hyphens in compound adjectives (X-JJ.2)