Four-year-old Keifer says, "We wented to school." This most likely indicates that:
A)Keifer's parents use poor English at home
B)Keifer has forgotten the proper way to form past tense
C)English is not Keifer's native language
D)Keifer is overgeneralizing a grammatical rule

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Keifer is overgeneralizing the regular grammatical rule for forming the past tense of verbs by adding -ed to the base form of the verb (e.g. walked, played, etc.).

Four-Year-Old Keifer Says, "We Wented to School