Is dd2s grammar normal development?

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Dd2 is 3.0 and talks well in long sentences but her grammar is strange and us repeating it but correctly doesn't help.
Eg.
When we was walking along we sawed a swan.
When we comed in the house the Xmas cards all felled down didn't they.
I passid her a drink because she is thirsty like I am thirsty wasn't she.

Her tenses are often mixed, she will say he is for a girl, she puts ed on lots of words.
She can't pronounce sc, says gooter, skate comes out as gate, sky is guy, but she can say sausage and cake it's just the joined sound she can't do.

Sounds normal.

Adding 'ed' shows an emerging understanding of past tense which is good - think of waited, walked, climbed, talked, washed, cooked

The rules of grammar are being applied, not necessarily perfectly, but learning it all properly takes time. Don't correct the speech, but respond using the correct grammar:

"Yes, we saw the Xxx"

"I remember when we came here too"

That sort of thing.

Yes. She knows the basics of the rules but not the subtleties and irregularities. She's doing fine.

Yes, totally normal. It takes months/years to learn all the exceptions.

Model, don't correct. They get there eventually.

Yes, absolutely normal. A lot of the errors are because toddlers expect language to be more regular than it is- they notice that 'ed' makes the past tense and assume it works for any word. They all go through a stage of saying 'goed' 'falled' etc.

Yep, it carries on, too. DD3 is 4 and at school. We still have 'tooked' 'goed' 'hadded', etc., and she's a bright little thing.

Thanks, I don't correct, just model correctly, but it's not sinking in yet.

My DS1 had a 'speech delay', along with some understanding/concentration issues -

anyway, 'makaton' from a speech therapist was introduced to 'support' his speech development, and as for individual words (ie, Juice was 'duece' to him), never telling him he was wrong, but saying to him 'is it 'duece' or 'juice' made him correct himself by thinking - really, really helped x

My 3.4 DD is a great talker, with a huge vocab, and she does this.

I actually think it's amazing - they're making errors, but they're understanding a rule and applying it. They're changing words to make them into the past tense. They know that the word changes, and even what it can change to, and they do it almost unthinkingly, as part of their stream of consciousness.

I think it's incredible, that human beings are capable of that at only 3 years of age.

She is doing just great - it is all part of the learning process.