Strand · what is that?
Examining language and language use
The building blocks are sorted by grade band. What a building block builds on is on its own page.
0 of 55 building blocks practised
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Gap
Grade 5/6
- Nouns and articles (gap, no app yet)
- Gender and number (gap, no app yet)
- Grammatical cases (gap, no app yet)
- Conjugating verbs (gap, no app yet)
- Strong and weak verbs (gap, no app yet)
- Present and simple past (gap, no app yet)
- Present perfect and past perfect (gap, no app yet)
- Future and future perfect (gap, no app yet)
- Time relations between tenses (gap, no app yet)
- Adjectives and comparison (gap, no app yet)
- Pronouns (gap, no app yet)
- Prepositions (gap, no app yet)
- Adverbs (gap, no app yet)
- Conjunctions (gap, no app yet)
- Sentence types (gap, no app yet)
- Grammatical tests (gap, no app yet)
- Subject and predicate (gap, no app yet)
- Objects (gap, no app yet)
- Adverbials (gap, no app yet)
- Attributes (gap, no app yet)
- Main and subordinate clauses (gap, no app yet)
- Compound and complex sentences (gap, no app yet)
- Relative clauses (gap, no app yet)
- Compound words (gap, no app yet)
- Derivation (gap, no app yet)
- Word families (gap, no app yet)
- Word fields and synonyms (gap, no app yet)
- Ambiguous words (gap, no app yet)
- Idioms and proverbs (gap, no app yet)
- Spoken and written language (gap, no app yet)
- Standard and academic language (gap, no app yet)
- Comparing languages (gap, no app yet)
Grade 7/8
- Active and passive voice (gap, no app yet)
- Modal verbs (gap, no app yet)
- Subjunctive II (gap, no app yet)
- Reported speech (gap, no app yet)
- Adverbial clauses (gap, no app yet)
- Subject and object clauses (gap, no app yet)
- Infinitive and participle groups (gap, no app yet)
- Topological field model (gap, no app yet)
- Native words, loanwords, foreign words (gap, no app yet)
- Semantic change (gap, no app yet)
- Language of proximity and distance (gap, no app yet)
- Choosing a register (gap, no app yet)
- Youth language (gap, no app yet)
- Communication model (gap, no app yet)
- Netiquette (gap, no app yet)
- Text cohesion (gap, no app yet)
Grade 9/10
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