For my observation, I observed a Preschool classroom during the mid-day. There were 5 children in the class all together, and two teachers. two children were sitting with a teacher coloring and pointing to images and the other three were playing while the teacher supervised. The children were preschool aged and seemed to all be around 2-4 years of age. The three children that were playing were the ones I focused on, specifically a boy, let’s call him John. John was sitting with one girl and another boy playing with two toy cars and some bricks built up like a tower. John seemed to be the leader of the group. He was a little bigger than both children and his communication skills seemed to be far more advanced. While the other children used smaller words to make sentences such as saying “no” or “don’t do that” or “go here” John used more complex sentences. He seemed to almost be teaching the other two children and would expand their sentences. Such as when the little girl said “There” John would say “it goes over here” referring to one of the toy cars. Or if one of the children did something John did not approve of he would say, “no don’t do that, thats not how its suppose to go” Because of this, and due to the fact that there really wasn’t anything else going on I decided to focus in on John and count the number of complex sentences he spoke over a period of fifteen minutes. Due to his language skills, I defined complex sentences as anything he said with 5 or more words such as “drive it to the fire station” or “leave it over there, he’s sleeping.” Over the course of 15 minutes, John said 26 complex sentences. Language is made up of different components that help us communicate to one another. Things such as phonology, semantics and grammar represent sounds, word meanings, and the structure of language, respectively. As a child develops, he/she passes certain