Question

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate form of the verbs given in brackets: 10
Linguists ………..suggest/suggests) that speech milestones………..(is/are) reached in a
fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there …………….(is/are) cases where
speech……….. (has/have) started late in a child who eventually.……….. (turn/turns)
out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby ……….. (smile/smiles) and………..
(utter/utters) vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and
understand simple commands; at eighteen months he ……….. (has/have) a vocabulary
of three to fifty words. At three he ……….. (know/knows) about 1000 words which he
can put into sentences, and at four his language ……….. (differ/differs) from that of his
parents in style rather than grammar.

Answer 1

Linguists suggest that speech milestones are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and utters vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.

Answer 2

suggest, are, are, have, turns, smiles, uttersm has, knows, differs