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Children repeating bad grammar they hear at nursery

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caughtinthesnow · 03/01/2025 17:14

My little one is 2 and a half and I've noticed she repeats some grammatical errors. She definitely hasn't heard them from us..

The main one I've noticed is ' was ' instead of ' were '.

I know it hasn't come from us, because that's how the nursery teachers speak and write too...

It's not ideal is it? Has anyone had this issue with nursery or school ? I would expect a school teacher not to make grammatical mistakes like confusing was with were, but I don't know. I wouldn't have expected nursery teachers to make that kind of mistake.

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caughtinthesnow · 03/01/2025 17:17

Nc54684 · 03/01/2025 17:16

Yes we are in south London and all the staff at my sons nursery were so nice but spoke with incorrect grammar “we was playing today in the garden”
At age 3 I moved him to the preschool in the hope that he wouldn’t pick it up and instead the teacher of the nursery class spoke more like us

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Nc54684 · 03/01/2025 17:16

Yes we are in south London and all the staff at my sons nursery were so nice but spoke with incorrect grammar “we was playing today in the garden”
At age 3 I moved him to the preschool in the hope that he wouldn’t pick it up and instead the teacher of the nursery class spoke more like us

JiminaSlump · 03/01/2025 17:15

I wouldn't worry. My child came home with a really broad local accent, even though neither of us speaks like that at home. She's shed it gradually over her first year in school. Just keep gently correcting if it's really irksome, but the chances are that she'll ultimately speak like you do. They just talk like the people around them.

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