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LI At the upper primary level, knowledge of grammar remains a process of discovery combined with a conscious effort to explicitly understand and name grammatical items. However, these should not be taken out of contexts to be treated as discrete teaching items.

• LI.1 In addition to consolidating the items learnt earlier, the following will be introduced and recycled through the upper primary stage.

  • LI.2 determiners

  • LI.3 linking words

    • Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (VI-J.3)
    • Identify relative pronouns (VI-Z.8)
    • Use relative pronouns: who and whom (VI-Z.9)
    • Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that (VI-Z.10)
    • Identify main verbs and helping verbs (VI-AA.1)
    • Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns (VI-AA.3)
    • Use relative adverbs (VI-DD.4)
    • Use coordinating conjunctions (VI-FF.1)
    • Identify coordinating conjunctions (VI-FF.2)
    • Identify subordinating conjunctions (VI-FF.3)
    • Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions (VI-FF.4)
    • Fill in the missing correlative conjunction (VI-FF.5)
    • Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (VII-J.3)
    • Use relative pronouns: who and whom (VII-BB.7)
    • Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that (VII-BB.8)
    • Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns (VII-CC.2)
    • Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions (VII-II.1)
    • Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (VIII-J.3)
    • Use relative pronouns: who and whom (VIII-CC.7)
    • Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that (VIII-CC.8)
    • Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns (VIII-DD.2)
    • Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions (VIII-JJ.1)

  • LI.4 adverbs (place and types)

    • Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (VI-J.3)
    • Identify adverbs (VI-DD.3)
    • Use relative adverbs (VI-DD.4)
    • Choose between adjectives and adverbs (VI-DD.5)
    • Is the word an adjective or adverb? (VI-DD.6)
    • Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs (VI-DD.9)
    • Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst (VI-DD.10)
    • Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (VII-J.3)
    • Identify adverbs (VII-FF.3)
    • Choose between adjectives and adverbs (VII-FF.4)
    • Is the word an adjective or adverb? (VII-FF.5)
    • Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs (VII-FF.8)
    • Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst (VII-FF.9)
    • Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (VIII-J.3)
    • Identify adverbs (VIII-GG.3)
    • Choose between adjectives and adverbs (VIII-GG.4)
    • Is the word an adjective or adverb? (VIII-GG.5)
    • Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs (VIII-GG.8)
    • Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst (VIII-GG.9)

  • LI.5 tense forms

    • Identify main verbs and helping verbs (VI-AA.1)
    • Irregular past tense: review (VI-CC.1)
    • Simple past, present and future tense: review (VI-CC.2)
    • Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense (VI-CC.3)
    • Use the progressive verb tenses (VI-CC.4)
    • Form the progressive verb tenses (VI-CC.5)
    • Choose between the past tense and past participle (VI-CC.6)
    • Use the perfect verb tenses (VI-CC.7)
    • Form the perfect verb tenses (VI-CC.8)
    • Irregular past tense: review (VII-EE.1)
    • Simple past, present and future tense: review (VII-EE.2)
    • Form the progressive verb tenses (VII-EE.4)
    • Form the perfect verb tenses (VII-EE.5)
    • Irregular past tense: review (VIII-FF.1)
    • Simple past, present and future tense: review (VIII-FF.2)
    • Form the progressive verb tenses (VIII-FF.4)
    • Form the perfect verb tenses (VIII-FF.5)

  • LI.6 clauses

    • Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (VI-W.1)
    • Identify dependent and independent clauses (VI-W.8)
    • Is the sentence simple, compound or complex? (VI-W.9)
    • Commas with compound and complex sentences (VI-HH.1)
    • Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (VII-X.1)
    • Is it a phrase or a clause? (VII-Y.1)
    • Identify dependent and independent clauses (VII-Y.3)
    • Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex? (VII-Y.4)
    • Combine sentences using relative clauses (VII-Y.5)
    • Commas with compound and complex sentences (VII-LL.1)
    • Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses (VII-MM.1)
    • Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (VIII-Y.1)
    • Is it a phrase or a clause? (VIII-Z.1)
    • Identify dependent and independent clauses (VIII-Z.3)
    • Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex? (VIII-Z.4)
    • Combine sentences using relative clauses (VIII-Z.5)
    • Commas with compound and complex sentences (VIII-MM.1)
    • Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses (VIII-NN.1)

  • LI.7 passivisation

    • Identify active and passive voice (VIII-M.1)
    • Rewrite the sentence in active voice (VIII-M.2)

  • LI.8 adjectives (comparative and superlative forms)

    • Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives (VI-DD.7)
    • Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst (VI-DD.8)
    • Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives (VII-FF.6)
    • Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst (VII-FF.7)
    • Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives (VIII-GG.6)
    • Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst (VIII-GG.7)

  • LI.9 modal auxiliaries

    • What does the modal verb show? (VI-AA.4)
    • Use the correct modal verb (VI-AA.5)

  • LI.10 word order in sentence types

    • Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (VI-W.1)
    • Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (VII-X.1)
    • Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory? (VIII-Y.1)

  • LI.11 reported speech