By Learning That Adding "-Ed" to the End of a Verb

question 62

Multiple Choice

By learning that adding "-ed" to the end of a verb creates a change in its tense,a child is acquiring the rules of

• A) phonology.
• B) morphology.
• C) pragmatics.
• D) semantics.

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