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1.0 Grammar
The grammar items listed below are to be taught over the five years
of secondary schooling. These items are part and parcel of the learning outcomes.
The classification given below is one of many classifications available to the English teacher. Other classifications may also be used.

1.1 Nouns
· Kinds: Countable, Uncountable, Collective, Compound
· Number: Plurals-Regular; Irregular; Foreign; Compound;
Concord (subject-verb agreement);
· Nouns with no Singular/Plural Form; Plurals with different
meanings

1.2 The Articles
· Indefinite; Definite; Zero article.

1.3 Adjectives
· Attributive and Predicative use;
· Adjectives functioning as nouns
· Nouns functioning as Adjectives
· Comparison Adjectives

1.4 Pronouns
· Personal
· Relative
· Possessive
· Demonstrative
· Reflexive
· Interrogative

1.5 Verbs
· Regular and Irregular; Transitive and Intransitive
· Verbs – Tenses: Simple Past, Future, Continuous, Perfect
· Verbs – Negative, Interrogative, Question phrases
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· Special finites (Modals): be; have, can, could, should, would, may, might, must, need, ought
· Infinitives: to, do
· Gerunds

1.6 Adverbs
· Formation
· Types: Adverbs of manner, time, place, direction, agent
· Comparison

1.7 Prepositions
· Positions - e.g. time, place, direction, agent
· Preposition in fixed phrases

1.8 Connectors
· Conjunctions
· Logical connectors
· Sequence connectors

1.9 Sentences
· Simple, Compound, Complex, Questions, Imperatives,
Exclamatives
· Negation

1.10 Direct and Indirect Speech
· Statements, Questions, Commands

1.11 Punctuation