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Nobody under the age of 11 needs to know what a modal verb or a subordinating conjunction is. And they definitely don't need to be tested on such things, and made to feel like failures because they don't get it.
If you want to read more about this issue, you could do worse than this article in the Guardian, and particularly the linked blogposts by Anne Rooney and Nicola Morgan.
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