Four year old grammar

It’s very interesting trying to demonstrate past tense to a four year old. Time in general is an interesting concept for a four year old (four days from now and twenty days from now are pretty much the same). Sometime you use a verb in the past tense and our daughter will say, “what does x mean?”. Explaining it just doesn’t work. So you just keep using the words correctly, assuming that eventually it will wear off. Let’s face it, most people don’t know grammar rules well, they generally say things correctly because it sounds right.

Tonight I had the best example. We were talking about what she wore this morning. So she asks what “wore” is. So I try to say that “wore” is the same as “wear” but when it already happened.

Danielle immediately says, “no, wore means when a doll wears one of your socks. My friend Jesse told me so”.

How can you argue with that?. After all, Jesse is five…