Short transcript of Ming (Agents of Speech) arguing that verbs are essential for constructing sentences and that teaching should target action words during play, especially at the one- to three-word phrase stage. The speaker emphasizes that without verbs, nouns alone cannot be glued into sentences and that play-based teaching focuses on verbs.
You put two planet names together and make sentence, you cannot. What do you need? You need different word classes, meaning you need places, you need adjectives and you need verbs. The most important thing of all. All right, the verb leads charge of all the words that come in a sentence. And I stand corrected to any linguist here. I'm just saying, if you don't have verbs, you cannot glue words together, man. It's just impossible. What are you going to say? A bunch of nouns in one go? That's impossible. So that's why in the one to three word phrase level, we teach a lot more play, and we try to teach verbs whilst we're doing the play. And we're like, we're very targeted at those action words.
