3 / 4 word sentences?

[DoAhhDiddy]

My son is nearly three and I’m concerned about his speech development. He’s recently had grommets and his pronunciation and sentences have come on a little bit not much. These are some of the sentences-do you think they constitute 3 a 4 sentence? I have spoken with an SLT who said he’s too young to assess and offer therapy yet.

I love you
I’ve got it
It’s mine
It’s my car
What’s that noise?
Come on Babs, Squirrel
It’s my… car, book, teddy etc
Chocolate bar open it
Don’t like it
Reggie little house
Oh no, I fix it
Dirty tuna pasta, wash
Bobby (dog) drink come on up
Grandma wash dice
Look shark here

Yes they definitely are 3/4 word sentences. Is 3/4 word sentences what he is told he “should” be using?

Yeah but some of the above have one meaning so I don’t think they really are 3-40 word sentences if you know what I mean!

Some of them you could maybe argue are learnt phrases (I love you, it's mine) and not 'original' 3-4 word sentences that he's spontaneously putting together from individual words. However, others definitely look like 'original' sentences – he's presumably not heard 'Grandma wash dice' said that many times to learn it as a rote phrase? Same with 'dirty tuna pasta, wash' and 'Reggie little house' (okay, that's not a 'sentence' grammatically, it has no verb, but it's a string of three words).

So I'd be watching to hopefully see more and a broader range of those self-assembled 3-4 word strings emerge, but from what you've written, it sounds like they're starting to!