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subject-verb agreement #1 (permalink) Wed Apr 29, 2009 15:31 pm   subject-verb agreement
 

Hi,
Why is it so difficult for children who begin learning English to make the agreement between subject and verb? Does anyone made any study concerning the subject-verb agreement?
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subject-verb agreement #2 (permalink) Wed Apr 29, 2009 16:43 pm   subject-verb agreement
 

If you're talking about children learning their native language, it's because small children hear the most obvious things first. That's probably also the reason with children learning a second language.

For native English-speaking children learning their first language, in regard to verbs, the first thing they learn is the present participles, because those relate to things they see happening at the same time they hear the verbs. Then they learn the irregular past-tense verbs, because those are easy to hear. The regular past tense and present-tense subject verb agreement are harder to hear, and so those come very late in their language acquisition.

It all has to do with how many prominent features of the language are filling one's attention. At lower stages of development, less prominent things, like verb suffixes, are crowded out by more major things like stems.
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subject-verb agreement #3 (permalink) Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:36 am   subject-verb agreement
 

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subject-verb agreement #4 (permalink) Wed Feb 10, 2010 16:09 pm   subject-verb agreement
 

Hello Jemie,
Thank you for this new piece of information. This is the first time to learn about teaching English for native speakers. We usually start with the present continuous then the present simple for teaching non-native speakers, but sometimes we find it difficult to get them understand the real usage of the present simple.
Actually, I need somebody who is professional in teaching English to support me with a logical sequance in teaching the English tenses to non-native speakers.

Let me know what you think.
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