Which statement correctly matches Brown's Stage II feature?

• A. Stage II is associated with irregular past tense.
• B. Stage II is associated with present progressive tense.
• C. Stage II is associated with complex sentence structures.
• D. Stage II is associated with the emergence of the regular plural.

Answer: (D)

In this stage, children start marking nouns for more than one, showing the emergence of the regular plural with the suffix -s. This is when you’ll begin to hear forms like "dogs" or "cats" as the child experiments with indicating quantity. It’s a step beyond simply using words as they are, but not yet a full mastery of all plural forms or other later morphemes. This feature sets Stage II apart from the earlier stage, where present progressive -ing appears, and from later stages that introduce irregular past tense or more complex sentence structures. So, the emergence of the regular plural accurately captures what Stage II is about.