C
and something along the lines of "Later that night while he sat with his family to watch the news, Jerome got a text from Martin thanking him again for being there. Only then did Jerome realize that no one else had stopped by the entire afternoon despite the plethora of messages offering to help Martin and his dad."
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Answer:
the sound was positively painfully
the sound was deafeningly dreadful
Explanation:
or if it was (somehow) a nice sound, peacefully pleasing/pleasurable
The answer is B. Tan is presenting the example <em>"limited English"</em>, which is just <em>one of many</em> other terms she heard before, to express how bad they seem. Because, when people deem those whose knowledge of the Mother Tongue <em>is not as the native speaker</em>, therefore is limited, they are defining everything as limited, even their speaking perceptions.
It was immature
of him to do that.
