Read The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language Online
Authors: Steven Pinker
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ERROR THAT MIGHT TEMPT A CHILD
: She could go.Does she could go?
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:He did eat.He didn’t eat.
ERROR THAT MIGHT TEMPT A CHILD
:He did a few things.He didn’t few thing.
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: He did eat.Did he eat?
ERROR THAT MIGHT TEMPT A CHILD
: He did a few things.did he a few thing?
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: I like going.He likes going.
ERROR THAT MIGHT TEMPT A CHILD
: I can go.He cans go.
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ERROR THAT MIGHT TEMPT A CHILD
: I am going.He ams (
or
be’s) going.
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: They went to sleep.They wanted to sleep.
ERROR THAT MIGHT TEMPT A CHILD
: They are sleeping.They are’d (
or
be’d) sleeping.
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: He is happy.He is not happy.
ERROR THAT MIGHT TEMPT A CHILD
: He ate something.He ate not something.
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: He is happy.Is he happy?