2. Sheera decide to stay home when shandra gets tickets to the book release because her grandmother asked her what about the beans and she loves her grandmother and didn't want to let her down.
3.yes, Sheera likes to spend time with her grandmother.
1 example- Grandmother asked me to help her organize a yard sale for the lewises, who lived around the corner.
2 example- Grandmother walked over and gave me a quick hug. "I knew you could do it" she said
4.Sheera started feeling like the levving practice became more of a partnership when her grandmother retired from levving and started showing sheera how to get better at it.
Answer :
The following sentence best summarizes one central idea of the passage from "Mother Tongue" :
A.The expression of experience through language is more powerful when different forms of English are accepted.
Tan has a firm belief that nonstandard forms of English are legitimate languages in their own right.
Excerpts from the text that support this answer are :
1. "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."
2. "-I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English I spoke to my mother, which for lack of a better term might be described as "simple"; the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as "broken"; my translation of her Chinese, which could certainly be described as "watered down"; and what I imagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak in perfect English, her internal language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure. I wanted to capture what language ability tests can never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts."
A.Squeaky sees Gretchen as a rival and a competitor.
Answer:
to show how hitler influenced the holoccaust and hurt innocent jews.
Explanation:
The holocaust was a tragic event that happened due to racism and inequality, Hitler and the german army was at "war" with the jews.
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