alleryUnlike basic grammar, vocabulary keeps growing:
AThroughout one's life
BOnly until age ten
COnly inside school
DOnly with a dictionary
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Throughout one's life
1. Lexical knowledge is central to acquiring a second language.
2. The grammar of a language is largely in place by about age ten.
3. Vocabulary, by contrast, continues to be learned throughout one's lifetime.
4. So vocabulary growth does not stop at ten or at school.
**Why not the others:** Vocabulary growth does not stop at ten, is not confined to school, and is not limited to dictionaries.
_Source: NCERT, Position Paper of the National Focus Group on Teaching of English (2006), section "3.3.1 English at later levels: Higher-order skills", PDF p. 19 (ncert.nic.in/pdf/focus-group/english.pdf)_
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