Curriculum Committee: REVISED Scope & Sequence for the Grammar Curriculum / APPROVED 11/11/11 – Updated 2/22/12
Verb tenses and forms
Present simple
Present progressive
Imperative (LS)
There is/are
Be, have
S/V agreement
It + be for time and weather (LS)
Questions: wh-, yes/no
Short answers
Clauses
Single-clause sentences
Word order
Want, need + infinitive
There + be
It + time/weather
II
Present simple and progressive
Past simple
Future with will and going to
Imperative (LS)
Subject-verb agreement with nouns
Questions: yes/no and information
(LS)
Coordination of clauses, words,
and phrases (and, or, but*)
(*direct opposition)
Adverb clauses of time with when,
before, after (in past simple tense)
III
Present perfect
Difference between will and going
to
Gerund and infinitives
Review of other tenses as needed
Imperative
Past progressive
Questions
Tag questions
Compound sentences (coordinating
conjunctions) with but*, so
(* concessive meaning)
Adverb clauses of time (introducing
until, as soon as, while, since)
Adverb clauses with because,
although, even though
Simple real and unreal conditionals
(LS)
I
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Nouns
Proper and common
Singular and plural, including
irregular plurals
Generic articles
Simple adjectives
Prepositions of time, location,
position, and sequence (LS)
Cardinal and ordinal numbers (LS)
Pronouns (subject, object,
demonstrative, indefinite referent,
interrogative)
Descriptive adjectives
Count and non-count nouns
Quantifiers
Possessive nouns and pronouns
Articles (basic use)
Measurements (e.g. a piece of)
Comparative adjectives (LS)
Superlative adjectives (LS)
Prepositions of time/extended time
Prepositions of location, position,
and direction (LS)
Pronouns (subject, object,
possessive, reflexive)
Nouns used as adjectives
Comparatives and superlatives
(adjectives, adverbs, and nouns) LS
Equatives (as …as) LS
Prepositions of means and purpose
Participial adjectives
Modals
Ability: can (LS)
Necessity: have to (LS)
Adverbs
Location
Frequency
Time
Ability (LS)
Future uncertainty: may, might
Necessity: have to (LS)
Permission: may, could, can (LS)
Requests: would, could, can, will (LS)
Suggestions: let’s, why don’t we? (LS)
Time
Frequency
Manner
ALL L/S:
Advice: Should, ought to, had better
Desire: would like to, would love to
Familiarity: be accustomed to, be
used to
Certainty: will, be going to, may, might
Uncertainty: may, might
Necessity: have to, must, have got to
Permission: may, can, could
Preference: would rather
Prohibition: must not, not supposed
to
Request: would, could, can, will, would
mind
Suggestion: let’s, why don’t
already, yet, still, just + present
perfect
Curriculum Committee: REVISED Scope & Sequence for the Grammar Curriculum / APPROVED 11/11/11 – Updated 2/22/12
IV
Review of past, present, and future
tenses in levels I-III, as needed:
present simple, past simple, present
perfect (RW); present and past
progressive (LS); will and going to
Past perfect (in appropriate adverb
clauses and indirect speech)
Adjective clauses (subject, object,
object of a preposition, restrictive
and non-restrictive)
Noun clauses (direct and indirect
speech, question words,
whether/if, as objects and objects
of a preposition, whether or not, as
adjective complements)
Clause combination and
punctuation of simple, compound,
and complex sentences
Comparative and superlative
adjectives (LS)
Count and non-count nouns (LS)
ALL L/S
Advice: should, ought to, had better
Certainty: all forms
Desire: would love/like to
Expectation: be supposed to
Impossibility: cannot, could not
(+future)
Intention: be going to
Necessity: must, have (got) to
Preference: would rather
Prohibition: must not
Familiarity: be accustomed to, be
used to
Willingness: will
Sentence (adverbial) transitions, as
needed, specifically for
compare/contrast, description, and
summary
V
Review functions of verb tenses
Gerunds and infinitives
Habitual actions with would, used
to
Passive voice
Causative verbs (make, let)
Future perfect [reading only]
Perfect progressives [reading only]
Questions (LS)
Adverb clauses, adding purpose (in
order to, so that)
Reduced adjective clauses
Adjective clauses of place, time,
and reason; and with quantities
Real and unreal (present and past)
conditionals (LS in EAP; RW in GenV)
Reduced adverb clauses [not in Gen
V; EAPV for reading purposes]
Punctuation of simple, compound,
and complex sentences
Noun clauses with wish, whatever
Correlative conjunctions
Adverb clauses [reduced clauses for
reading purposes]
Conditional (real and unreal;
implied and with inversion)
Noun clauses (as subjects for
reading only); complement noun
clauses (EAP)
Subjunctive noun clauses and nonfinite clauses of urging/
recommendation
Wh- clefts (i.e. wh- noun clauses as
subjects) – LS
Punctuation of simple, compound,
and complex sentences
Parallelism
Articles
Review of all functions listed
previously, with a new focus on RW
including:
Past and passive verb forms after
certain modal verbs, and all tenses
with semi-modals
And with the addition of:
Unfulfilled (past): was going to
Sentence (adverbial) transitions, as
needed, specifically for persuasion
and argument, cause/effect
Modals for hedging and boosting
claims
Sentence (adverbial) transitions
VI
Review verb tenses, passive voice as
needed
Subject-verb agreement (complex
cases)
Gerunds and infinitives
Subject-verb inversion
Questions (LS)
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Prepositions (as particles or
complements of verbs)
Articles, countability of nouns (in
depth)
Equatives, comparatives, rather
than