The answer is option A: It describes the author judging her mother based on her language.
In "Mother Tongue," the author Amy Tan expresses she used to feel embarrased by her mother's poor English. As an Chinese immigrant in America, the account states how Mrs Tan is not taken seriously. Since thoughts are expressed through language, even her own daughter Amy assumed her mother's concepts and knowledge were flawed or rudimentary, just like her English.
Definition/Explanation Clues
Answer:
- <u><em>The bureau shall notify the public of a proposed action.</em></u>
Explanation:
The original sentence is in passive voice: the public is not performing the action but receiving it. The passive voice uses the verb 'to be' + the past participle of the main verb: "shall be" + "notified".
The focus of a passive voice sentence is on the object and not on the subject: the public is the object; they will receive the act of the subject which is the bureau.
To change the passive voice to <em>active voice</em>, place the person who performs the action in the first part and change the tense of the verb to active form.
The subject that performs the action is the bureau. Thus, the active voice is:
- <u>The bureau shall notify the public of a proposed action.</u>
<u></u>
Now, the focus of the sentence is on who performed the action; thus, this is the <em>active voice</em>.
A (a reason that supports the writer’s thesis)
