This is important to have a better understanding of why the author chose to write the paragraph
Answer:
To inform readers based on Tan's childhood experience.
Explanation:
'Mother Tongue' is an essay written by Amy Tan. The essay talks about how Amy made use of different 'Englishes' in her work.
In the given excerpt Tan is talking about how her mother used to speak shorthand' broken' English. She informs the readers that the limited English that was spoken by her mother limited Amy's perception about her mother because she felt ashamed of the broken English she used to speak.
So, the purpose of including this text in the essay is to inform the readers about her experience with English in her childhood. Thus first option is correct.
D) A topic tells what a story is about while a theme is a life lesson.
Answer:o begin to appreciate how tactual interaction might be successfully integrated into the human-computer interface, it is essential to understand how the human body retrieves and processes information about its immediate surroundings. This happens at two levels: physical and perceptual. At the physical level, our peripheral nervous systems gather information using a number of different nerve types each of which is sensitive to a particular type of stimulus. All the information gathered by the peripheral nervous system is conveyed through the central nervous system to its ultimate focal point: the brain.
Explanation:
The answer to the question is b , yw