Syntactic Achievements - Increased sentence complexity: Children begin using more complex sentence structures, including compound and complex sentences., Development of passive voice - Children start to understand and use passive voice constructions appropriately, Semantic Achievements - successfully conveying or understanding meaning in communication., Vocabulary growth - School Aged children's vocabulary expands significantly, and they acquire and understand thousands of words, Word associations and categorization - They develop the ability to associate words with specific categories and understand hierarchical relationships between words., 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., Multiple word meanings - They grasp that words can have multiple meanings and learn to discern the appropriate meaning based on context, Understanding abstract concepts - Children acquire the ability to comprehend and discuss abstract concepts such as time, emotions, and morality, Mastery of grammatical rules - They acquire a better understanding of grammar and demonstrate improved accuracy in using verb tenses, pronouns, and prepositions., Increased sentence complexity - Children begin using more complex sentence structures, including compound and complex sentences, semantics - Semantics is the study of meaning in language, semantic noise - Semantic noise occurs when differences in interpretation, word choice, or language use cause misunderstanding between a sender and receiver,

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