Verbs & Adjectives Flashcards
The age when children start using present & future.
31-34 months
Auxiliary verb
Helping verbs.
Used to clarify the action or state of being.
I “will” come
They “shall” come
Auxiliary verbs can’t stand on their own.
Stage 3: negated verbs, aren’t, isn’t, doesn’t, didn’t
40-46 months
Action words
Children’s earliest verbs,
sit, see, eat, go
Main verbs
Serve as the principle descriptor of an action or a state of being.
Eat
Walk
Stand up
Transitive verb
The action or state of a subject carries over to an object.
Jonathan “kicked” the ball.
By preschool age, what percentage of total words are verbs?
25%
Children’s two word combos
18 months
Stage 2: no, not, can’t, don’t, I don’t want it, I no eat it:
30 months
Modal auxiliaries
provide info about certainty, intention, command, and emphasis.
Modal means mood
At age 9, this is the percentage of adjective used in a child’s sentence.
19%
The age when kids start using past tense.
35 - 40 months
Percentage of adjectives in early words
10%
Verb
A class of words that signify an action or a state of being.
Throughout childhood, adjectives make up this percentage of total words.
15%
