DD is 6.5 (primary 2) and she still gets past and present tense wrong quite a lot. She will also use incorrect words in a similar way a toddler would. For example she will say sitted rather than sat but understands when to use sit. Another example 'The bird flyed away' rather than 'The bird flew away'.
I have obviously been correcting her and I thought by now she would have outgrown this. She was improving for a while but I've noticed recently she is now making similar errors when writing. When she is reading she will sometimes read words in the wrong tense even though the correct word is on the page.
When do children generally outgrow this? I feel it still hasn't clicked for her yet so will continue to work with her but I'm unsure if I should be concerned or not at this stage?
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What age do children understand past/present tense?
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FuckOffJeffrey · 28/04/2016 14:41
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