Strand · what is that?
Grammar
The building blocks are sorted by grade band. What a building block builds on is on its own page.
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Grade 5/6
- The verb to be (gap, no app yet)
- Have got and has got (gap, no app yet)
- Personal pronouns (gap, no app yet)
- Possessive determiners (gap, no app yet)
- Articles a, an and the (gap, no app yet)
- Plural of nouns (gap, no app yet)
- Possessive ’s and of (gap, no app yet)
- Demonstratives (gap, no app yet)
- There is and there are (gap, no app yet)
- Imperative (gap, no app yet)
- Word order in statements (gap, no app yet)
- Simple present (gap, no app yet)
- Simple present: questions and negatives (gap, no app yet)
- Question words (gap, no app yet)
- Subject and object questions (gap, no app yet)
- Short answers (gap, no app yet)
- Adverbs of frequency (gap, no app yet)
- Present progressive (gap, no app yet)
- Simple present or present progressive (gap, no app yet)
- Can, must and needn’t (gap, no app yet)
- Polite requests with would like (gap, no app yet)
- Much, many, a lot of (gap, no app yet)
- Quantities with of (gap, no app yet)
- Some, any and no (gap, no app yet)
- Compounds of some and any (gap, no app yet)
- Prepositions of time (gap, no app yet)
- Prepositions of place (gap, no app yet)
- Position of adjectives (gap, no app yet)
- Conjunctions and, but and because (gap, no app yet)
- That-clauses (gap, no app yet)
- Simple past of regular verbs (gap, no app yet)
- Irregular verbs (gap, no app yet)
- Simple past: questions and negatives (gap, no app yet)
- Going to future (gap, no app yet)
- Will future (gap, no app yet)
- Will or going to (gap, no app yet)
- Present perfect (gap, no app yet)
- Modals could, might and should (gap, no app yet)
- Question tags (gap, no app yet)
- Questions ending in a preposition (gap, no app yet)
- Comparison of adjectives (gap, no app yet)
- Comparisons: than, as … as (gap, no app yet)
- Adverbs of manner (gap, no app yet)
- Adjective or adverb (gap, no app yet)
- Comparison of adverbs (gap, no app yet)
- Conditional sentences type 1 (gap, no app yet)
- Defining relative clauses (gap, no app yet)
Grade 7/8
- Past progressive (gap, no app yet)
- Present perfect or simple past (gap, no app yet)
- Since and for (gap, no app yet)
- Present perfect progressive (gap, no app yet)
- Past perfect (gap, no app yet)
- Tenses in time clauses (gap, no app yet)
- Present tenses for the future (gap, no app yet)
- Future progressive and future perfect (gap, no app yet)
- Stative verbs (gap, no app yet)
- Substitute forms of modal verbs (gap, no app yet)
- Adjectives after linking verbs (gap, no app yet)
- Position of adverbs (gap, no app yet)
- Adverbs of degree (gap, no app yet)
- Reflexive pronouns (gap, no app yet)
- Each other (gap, no app yet)
- Possessive pronouns (gap, no app yet)
- Prop word one (gap, no app yet)
- Conditional sentences type 2 (gap, no app yet)
- Conditional sentences type 3 (gap, no app yet)
- I wish and if only (gap, no app yet)
- Contact clauses (gap, no app yet)
- Non-defining relative clauses (gap, no app yet)
- Conjunctions although and whereas (gap, no app yet)
- Reported speech without backshift (gap, no app yet)
- Reported speech with backshift (gap, no app yet)
- Reported commands (gap, no app yet)
- Passive: simple present and past (gap, no app yet)
- Passive in other tenses (gap, no app yet)
- Passive with two objects (gap, no app yet)
- Gerund (gap, no app yet)
- Gerund after prepositions (gap, no app yet)
- Infinitive constructions (gap, no app yet)
- Gerund or infinitive (gap, no app yet)
- Use of the definite article (gap, no app yet)
- Agreement with news and police (gap, no app yet)
- Adjectives as nouns (gap, no app yet)
Grade 9/10
- Past perfect progressive (gap, no app yet)
- Choosing the right tense (gap, no app yet)
- Used to and would (gap, no app yet)
- Sentential relative clauses (gap, no app yet)
- Reported questions (gap, no app yet)
- Participles replacing relative clauses (gap, no app yet)
- Participle clauses (gap, no app yet)
- Uses of the -ing form (gap, no app yet)
- Emphatic do (gap, no app yet)
- Cleft sentences (gap, no app yet)
- Inversion (gap, no app yet)
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