At What Age?
And the Word is...
Composes a Sentence
Crystal's Life in Text
100

Do you babble, and make noises and sounds?

Newborn/Baby

100

The language used to talk about language

Metalanguage

100

is eating

verb phrase

100

Who does Crystal use to provide real life in-text examples?

Suzie/his daughter

200

Do you begin using full sentences?

3

200

The ordering of words

syntax

200

eat, ate, eaten or took, taken, take

irregular verb

200

Excluding the Introduction and Epilogue, how many chapters are in "Making Sense?"

28

300

Is Two Word Stage (red car or silly hat)?

12-18 months

300

Actual forms that conveyed relationships

inflection

300

on chair, in chair

prepositional phrase

300

What other text of Crystal's did we read for class?

The Stories of English

400

Do you start using connecting words (anyway, besides, etc.)?

6

400

The true notation of words

etymology

400

Very silly

adjective phrase

400

Where is David Crystal from?

United Kingdom

500

Begin adding prepositional words to grammar

2

500

Varying word endings

Morphology/Accidence

500

is, be, am, do, etc.

auxiliary verbs

500

Around what time does Crystal discuss teaching undergraduate students English?

1970s

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