Two-year-old Zada always hears the word pretty just before a word that refers to a concrete object (e. g., “pretty flower,” “pretty lady,” “pretty picture”). Although she does not yet know what an adjective is, at an intuitive level she understands that pretty is a “describing” word. Zada’s understanding reflects:

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.

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