Part II Sentences and Grammar

A. Word Endings/Part I
Not Yet Sometimes Often
1. To talk about more than one thing, we add an “s” to many words. Examples include
cars (for more than one car), shoes, dogs, and keys. Has your child begun to do this? O O O
2. To talk about ownership, we add an “s”, for example, Daddy’s key, kitty’s dish, and
baby’s bottle. Has your child begun to do this? O O O
3. To talk about activities we sometimes add “ing” to verbs. Examples include looking,
running, and crying. Has your child begun to do this? O O O
4. To talk about things that happened in the past, we often add “ed” to the verb.
Examples include kissed, opened, and pushed. Has your child begun to do this? O O O

B. Word Forms
Following are some other words children learn. Please mark any of these words that your child uses.
Nouns
children O men O teeth O
feet O mice O
Verbs
ate O fell O made O
blew O flew O ran O
bought O got O sat O
broke O had O saw O
came O heard O took O
drank O held O went O
drove O lost O

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 C. Word Endings/Part 2
Young children often place the wrong endings on words. For example, a child might say “Auntie goed
home.” Mistakes like this are often a sign of progress in language. In the following lists, please mark
all the mistakes of this kind you have heard your child say recently.
Nouns
blockses O mans O sockses O
childrens O mens O teeths O
childs O mices O toeses O
feets O mouses O tooths O
foots O shoeses O
Verbs
ated O drinked O losted O
blewed O eated O maked O
blowed O falled O ranned O
bringed O flied O runned O
buyed O getted O seed O
breaked O goed O satted O
broked O gotted O sitted O
camed O haved O taked O
comed O heared O wented O
doed O holded O
dranked O losed O

Has your child begun to combine words yet, such as “nother cracker”, or “doggie bite?”
O Not Yet O Sometimes O Often

If you answered ‘not yet’, please stop here. If you answered ‘sometimes’ or ‘often’, please continue.

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 D. Examples: Please list three of the longest sentences you have heard your child say or seen your
child sign recently.

1. _______________________________________________________________________________________

E. Complexity
In each of the following pairs, please mark the one that sounds/looks MOST like the way your child
talks/signs right now. If your child is saying/signing sentences more complicated than the two
provided, just pick the second one.

1. Two shoe. O 2. Two foot. O

Two shoes. O O
(Talking about something happening right now.)
Daddy car. O Kitty sleep. O
Daddy’s car. O Kitty sleeping. O
(Talking about something happening right now.) (Talking about something that already happened)
I make tower. O I fall down. O
I making tower. O I fell down. O

More cookie! O These my tooth. O

More cookies! O These my teeth. O
(Talking about something that already happened)
Baby blanket. O Doggie kiss me. O
Baby’s blanket. O Doggie kissed me. O
(Talking about something that already happened) (Talking about something that already happened)
11. Daddy pick me up. O Kitty go away. O
Daddy picked me up. O Kitty went away. O

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 Doggie table. O That my truck. O
Doggie on table. O That’s my truck. O
Baby crying. O You fix it? O
Baby is crying. O Can you fix it? O
17. Read me story, Mommy. O 18. No wash dolly. O
Read me a story, Mommy. O Don’t wash dolly. O
19. Want more juice. O 20. There a kitty. O
Want juice in there. O There’s a kitty. O
21. Go bye-bye. O 22. Where mommy go? O
Wanna go bye-bye. O Where did mommy go? O
23. Coffee hot. O 24. I no do it. O
That coffee hot. O I can’t do it. O
25. I like read stories. O 26. Don’t read book. O
I like to read stories. O Don’t want you read that book O
27. Turn on light. O 28. I want that. O
Turn on the light so I can see. O I want that one you got. O
29. Want cookies. O 30. Cookie mommy. O
Want cookies and milk. O Cookie for mommy. O
31. Baby want eat. O 32. Lookit me! O
Baby want to eat. O Lookit me dancing! O
33. Lookit! O 34. Where’s my dolly? O
Lookit what I got! O Where’s my dolly name Sam? O
35. We made this. O 36. I sing song. O
Me and Paul made this. O I sing song for you. O
37. Baby crying. O
Baby crying cuz she’s sad. O

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