🙅More, No + Thing
Combining a pivot word like "want" or "don't want" with a specific object — an easy, high-utility two-word pattern for requests and refusals.
🎯 Pivot Grammar Modeling
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Early child-language research (Braine, 1963) describes this stage as "pivot grammar": a small set of high-frequency pivot words — want, more, no — combine with a changing set of objects, letting toddlers generate many two-word phrases from very little vocabulary.
Phrases in this lesson
不要鞋
bú yào xié
要书
yào shū
要球
yào qiú
不要奶
bú yào nǎi
要抱
yào bào
不要睡觉
bú yào shuì jiào
不要洗澡
bú yào xǐ zǎo
要出去
yào chū qù
要玩
yào wán
不要走
bú yào zǒu
要妈妈
yào mā ma
不要帽子
bú yào mào zi
要奶瓶
yào nǎi píng
不要抱
bú yào bào
要车
yào chē
要糖
yào táng