• Asks "when" and "how"

• Expands use of prepositions

• Increases grammatical competence

  • Examples include

  • Uses the regular past tense -ed (He pushed me. She walked fast)

  • Uses 3rd person singular (He smiles a lot. Mommy jumps.)

  • Uses a contractible copula (He's big. That's mine)

  • Uses irregular 3rd person (does, has)

• Uses comparative clauses 

(Barber, 2010)

• follows three step directions and multistep unrelated commands

• Answers more complex "wh" questions.

• Understands and follows a conversation

• Answers factual and inferential questions

• Gives directions with 3-4 steps

• Simple figurative language usage and understanding increases

• Understands jokes and riddles based on word ambiguity 

• Forms opinions based on evidence

(Barber, 2010)