“Ay, Yoyo, you are going to be the one to bring our name to the headlights in this country! That is a beautiful, beautiful speec
h I want for your father to hear it before he goes to sleep. Then I will type it for you, all right?” –“Daughter of Invention,” Julia Alvarez What can be inferred about the character who is speaking in this passage, based on her nonstandard English speech? She is not educated. She does not speak any English. She only speaks English to her daughter. English is not her first language.
Explanation: In this excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" by Julia Alvarez, what we can infer about the character who is speaking in the passage, based on her nonstandard English speech is that <u><em>English is not her first language</em></u>. Laura, the mother of Yoyo is Dominican. She, her husband, and the girls have come to live in the US. She tries to invent things at night. Laura speaks nonstandard English because Spanish is her first language. Although she tries her idioms are all mixed up.
by definition a clause is "a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate." and "subject" is the closest answer you have to that
