Examples of Interrogative Sentences of Preschoolers
Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Topics: Early Years (Birth-5), Speech and Language Development, Language (Ages 2-3), Language (Ages 3-5)
There are three general forms of questions asked by children: those that assume a yes/no response, those that begin with a wh- word and assume a more complex answer, and those that are a statement to which agreement is sought by adding a tag, such as "...isn't he?" Examples of these questions are illustrated in the table below.
| Age | Interrogative Question |
| 26 months | Want on? |
| 30 months | What is that thing? Where's my sticker book? |
| 42 months | Chalk used to be here but where did it go? (Conjoining) |
| 46 months | Does yours smell like this? Does this go this way? |
| 50 months | How do you put these on? Let's show the women that's in here, ok? (Immature tag with embedded clause) Can I have a litle bit, too? |
| 61 months | Why are you gonna be back in a little while? (Embedded phrase) |
| 64 months | Do you know what person this is? (Embedded clause) What happens if we break this? (Conjoining) Looks like soap, doesn't it? (Mature tag) I wonder what that is? (Embedded clause) |
Excerpted From:
Excerpt from Language Development: An Introduction, by R.E. Owens, Jr., 2008 edition, p. 288.
© 2008, Allyn & Bacon, an imprint of Pearson Education Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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