Children repeating bad grammar they hear at nursery

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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.

Ha! Wait till they start school and copy their friends. I have a Melvin Bragg-style MC Yorkshire accent. DS pronounces “bath” “barf”, and starts every sentence with “bruh!”

I would not want to call any form of speech in habitual use ungrammatical.

Very well put.

I would. My parents did. Neutrally they'd say 'Jane was sitting in the second row', but when it was about expressing annoyance or tedium, they'd say 'she was sat there for a good two hours and still it wasn't her turn' (for example).