Four to five years
Most 4 year olds use longer sentences and can describe an event. They understand how things are different, such as the distinction between children and grown-ups. Most 5 year olds can carry on a conversation with another person.
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- typical speech at 5 years
- can use many descriptive words spontaneously with both adjectives and adverbs.
- knows common opposites for example big and little, hard and soft, heavy and light
- has number concepts of 4 or more
- can count to 10
- speech should be completely intelligible, in spite of articulation problems
- should know his age
- should have simple time concepts for example morning, afternoon, night, day, later, after, while
- should be using fairly long sentences and should use some compound and some complex sentences
- speech on the whole should be grammatically correct