Indirect requests are a more polite form of communication where the speaker uses declarative sentences like "you should" or "you must" rather than interrogative sentences. Children begin understanding and using indirect requests between ages 3 to 6, first producing them during the preschool years. When making indirect requests, children aim to be brief but also avoid appearing demanding.

1. INDIRECT REQUESTS
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2. INDIRECT REQUESTS
•Indirect requests is more polite form of talking.
•By age 6, the child is responding to many forms.
•(Carrell,1981)

3. INDIRECT REQUESTS
Declarative sentences such as you shoudn’t, you should, you
must, more easily than the child understands interrogative
sentences.
For example, shoudnt you, should you, or must you?
An adult says to a child on a rainy day says,”shouldn’t you put on
some boots” => this is a negative form but the action is postive

4. INDIRECT REQUESTS
The child first produces indirect request during the preschool years
Comparing the indirect requests with direct requests increases between
3 and 5 years (Garvey, 1975).
Two simple rules that children use when using nonstandard forms
of indirect request based on:
1. Briefness
2. Cleverness of avoid appearing demanding (Ervin-Tripp &
Gordon, 1986)
(Mitchell-Kernan and Kerman, 1977).