He seemed to know intuitively that I must be missing my mother.

他似乎凭直觉知道我一定是在思念我的母亲。

Most children reading this sentence would probably fill in the blank with a noun, because they intuitively know how language works.

大多数儿童读到这个句子时会在空白处填入名词，因为他们凭直觉就知道语言是如何运作的。