Friday, February 15, 2008
GETTING TO GRIPS WITH GRAMMAR
I love watching how my kids acquire language. The bi-/tri-lingual dimension makes it extra-special when you are linguistically-minded, but I'll leave Thomas to document today's sweet Danish development. Today's simple English puzzle was two-fold: irregular verbs and phrasal verbs. Léon dropped something and wanted to say: It fell down. Simple enough, but he has already worked out that past tenses should end in 'ed'. The adverb confused him further, so we ended up, not with the expected: It falled down, but instead, the rather cute: It fell downed!
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I would think, that he has a verb "fall down" and not a verb and an adverb.
Could you trick him into inflecting just "fall" og try using another adverb, just to check my thesis. ;)
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