Answer:
The best answer is c. She's confident that her daughter's attitude is the only reason she's not a genius.
Explanation:
Suyuan is the narrator's mother in Amy Tan's short story "Two Kinds". She is a Chinese woman who decides to make a child prodigy out of her daughter Jing-mei, sort of a Chinese Shirley Temple. She quizzes her on several subjects, changes her hair to make it curly and then short, and finally makes her take piano lessons. At first, Jing-mei is excited about the idea of being a prodigy. She likes to picture all the attention she'll receive, and believes problems won't exist if she is famous. She is not, however, willing to work hard to accomplish things. She chooses to be lazy and, since her mother is constantly nagging her, she chooses to fail. She even says she had the right to be a disappointment. She succeeds in letting her mother down at her piano recital, where she plays terribly. Suyuan is not fooled by her daughter's performance. She knows Jing-mei could have done better if she had been willing to apply herself. Years later, when Jing-mei is already grown up, Suyuan gives her the piano as a present and remarks precisely that:
"Well, I probably can't play anymore," I said. "It's been years." "You pick up fast," my mother said, as if she knew this was certain. “You have natural talent. You could be a genius if you want to." "No, I couldn't." "You just not trying," my mother said. And she was neither angry nor sad. She said it as if announcing a fact that could never be disproved. "Take it," she said.
My mom cheated on my dad with a random Mexican, she would take us to meet her boyfriends one threatened to kill us
The preamble, i.e. the summary and main ideas of a text (in this case of the Declaration of Independence) is a brief introductory statement constituting its purposes and principles. Lucas said that this preamble can be applied to any government. And that the charges in the Declaration are exactly specific accusations against the king.
The sentence in which parallel structure is used is A) While making a necklace, Sharon strung sparkly beads, added heart charms, and attached a silver clasp.
The parallel structure is marked in this sentence because the <em>simple past tense </em>is used in the three clauses. The parallel structure, also known as parallelism, is <em>the use of a repetitive pattern in the sentence structure. </em>Its function is to give an equal importance to different ideas or words within a sentence. The use of parallelism is useful to balance writing and make a sentence easier to read. One way of balancing a sentence is to use the same tense in all clauses. The other sentences B, C and D <em>do not follow a repetition in pattern.</em>
