constructing expressions referring to people, places, things and events in building and varying messages, using:
nouns and adjectives in phrases for people, characters, places and objects, for example, compound nouns, reduplications and nominalisations, adjectives used without an associated noun
sentences without verbs, for example, ‘this (is) my bag’
different types of pronouns, for example, personal, kinship, demonstrative and interrogative in all persons and numbers
determiners and quantifiers, for example, ‘some’, ‘every’, ‘other’, ‘few’, ‘much’, ‘all’, and words for groups
marking to indicate possession and other types of association, for example, ‘let’s go for water’
appropriate use of transitive and intransitive verbs
verbs of stance used in existential expressions, for example, ‘there is a creek lying near the road’
verbs to talk about actions, processes, thoughts and feelings
moods of verbs including statements, questions, imperatives, commands, intention, purpose, likelihood, reported speech
negation
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