Figurative language comprehension - Children begin to understand metaphors, similes, idioms, and other forms of figurative language, e.g., it's raining cats and dogs to mean there is a deluge., Vocabulary growth - School Aged children's vocabulary expands significantly, and they acquire and understand thousands of words, Understanding abstract concepts - Children acquire the ability to comprehend and discuss abstract concepts such as time, emotions, and morality., Multiple word meanings - They grasp that words can have multiple meanings and learn to discern the appropriate meaning based on context., Increased sentence complexity - Children begin using more complex sentence structures, including compound and complex sentences., Mastery of grammatical rules - They acquire a better understanding of grammar and demonstrate improved accuracy in using verb tenses, pronouns, and prepositions., Development of passive voice - Children start to understand and use passive voice constructions appropriately, e.g., "the cake was baked by Lisa", Use of more sophisticated clauses - They become proficient in using relative clauses, adverbial clauses, and conditional sentences., Relative Clause - A type of dependent clause that provides additional information about a noun in the main clause of a sentence., Word associations and categorization - They develop the ability to associate words with specific categories and understand hierarchical relationships between words., Morpheme knowledge  - The understanding of how words are constructed from their smallest units of meaning, which are called morphemes, Holophrastic stage - A phase of language acquisition where children use a single word to express a complex, sentence-long idea,

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