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CTET 7 Feb 2026 Paper 1, Question 4

Topic: Language and thought

Q4

Most children can speak five-six coherent sentences at

  1. (1) one year
  2. (2) three yearsCorrect answer
  3. (3) five years
  4. (4) seven years

Solution.

CBSE answer: (2)

Answer: (2) three years

  1. Around the third year, language grows very fast: vocabulary runs into hundreds of words and children join words into short, connected sentences.
  2. By this age most children can say a few related sentences about what they see or want, and others can follow them.
  3. At one year a child says only single words; by five and seven years speech is already much longer and fluent.

Trap: (3) five years is a later stage, when children narrate whole stories.