This study aims to describe syntactic acquisition in early childhood by analyzing the utterances of Ruby Fain specifically declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences, as well as interjections to assess her syntactic development. A qualitative descriptive research method was employed, utilizing "listen-and-record" and documentation techniques. The research subjects were Ruby Fain's utterances from 17 videos uploaded to the TikTok account Mama.Ruby&Alby (@ruby_fain). The results indicate that Ruby Fain is capable of using all four types of sentences; declarative sentences were the most frequent at 40% (8), followed by interrogative sentences at 30% (6), imperatives at 20% (4), and interjections at 10% (2). These findings demonstrate that Ruby Fain can use various sentence types appropriate to the communicative context, reflecting the development of syntactic abilities in producing meaningful and functional utterances.This study aims to describe the acquisition of syntax in early childhood through speech analysis from Ruby Fain which includes declarative, interrogative, imperative, and interjection sentences as analysis of syntax acquisition.
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