cannot string words together

We have two grandchildren, a 2-year-old daughter of our son and a 2-year-old son of our daughter. The girl is four months older than her cousin. We adore them both. The girl is smart and emotionally, physically and educationally way ahead of our grandson. She speaks in clearly understood sentences and already knows her alphabet and numbers. Our grandson, however, speaks very few words, cannot string words together to make a sentence and obviously is behind. They are both in preschool.

The argument is this. If our granddaughter continues on this bright path, she may test well for kindergarten ahead of her 5th birthday. Our daughter and my wife both think this would be horrible, and they want our son to hold his daughter back a year so that she will be in the same class as our grandson.

cannot string words togetherとhold his daughter back a yearはどのような意味でしょうか？よろしくお願いします

No.1 ベストアンサー 回答者： p-v-q 回答日時： 2019/05/24 23:25

cannot string words together

は言葉を繋ぎあわせることが出来ないという意味です。
つまり、孫（男の子の方）の話す内容は意味をなさないということです。

hold his daughter back a year
は訳すのに文脈が必要になるのですが、前提として
お婆さんと娘さん（男孫の母）は孫（女の子）が孫（男の子）よりも賢く、5歳になる前に幼稚園に通い出すことが出来ると考えています。それでは孫（男の子）が可哀想だからお婆さんと娘は息子（女孫の父）にわざと孫（女の子）を1年遅らせて孫（男の子）と同じタイミングで幼稚園に通わせたいのです。

この1年遅らせて、というところがhold his daughter back a yearの箇所です

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お礼日時：2019/05/25 21:53