• Construct complex sentences, join simple sentences together and mark the propositional relationship of words within sentences;
• Begin to master irregular verb forms.

As the child nears school age:

• he develops a greater ability to take into account the perspective of the other person;
• he is improving in turn-taking, topic maintenance, and is beginning to learn how to make indirect requests (I'm hungry mum, stated as a McDonald's sign appears);
• he still struggles with the rules of conversational etiquette;
• he has difficulty maintaining a conversation about topics that are not very familiar;
• he develops 'primitive' forms of the narrative.