The paper reviews some of the problems which arise in teaching verbs to
language-handicapped children, first with reference to different types of input
structure, then with reference to the question of selecting verbs to teach early in
a programme. It outlines a set of criteria for choosing verbs, and proposes a
technique for evaluating them.
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