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Unit 4- Asian American Voices Detailed Questions And Expert Answers
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Unit 4- Asian American Voices DetailedQuestions And Expert Answers
And sure enough, the following week there we were in front of this astonished
stockbroker, and I was sitting there red-faced and quiet, and my mother, the real
Mrs. Tan, was shouting at his boss in her impeccable broken English.
The inference suggested by this excerpt is that nonstandard forms of English - ANS
can be as effective as the standard form of english
Read the excerpt from "Mother Tongue."
Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother
says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none
of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother's English is
perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it,
is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped
shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world.
How does Tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? - ANS d. Tan
discusses her mother's English to support the idea that the language of one's
childhood is a person's deepest, truest form of expression.
Read the excerpt from "Mother Tongue."
, Lately, I've been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like
others, I have described it to people as "broken" or "fractured" English. But I wince
when I say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no other way to
describe it other than "broken," as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if
it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness.
Which best summarizes the central idea in the excerpt? - ANS B. Tan is
uncomfortable using negative terms to describe her mother's English.
Read the excerpt from "Mother Tongue."
Just last week, I was walking down the street with my mother, and I again found
myself conscious of the English I was using, the English I do use with her. We were
talking about the price of new and used furniture and I heard myself saying this:
"Not waste money that way." My husband was with us as well, and he didn't
notice any switch in my English. And then I realized why. It's because over the
twenty years we've been together I've often used that same kind of English with
him, and sometimes he even uses it with me. It has become our language of
intimacy, a different sort of English that relates to family talk, the language I grew
up with.
What can be inferred from the excerpt? - ANS B. Tan believes that nonstandard
English can be an important part of family culture.
Read the excerpt from "Mother Tongue."
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