1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
AlladinOne [14]
3 years ago
5

Reflective essays explore what the author believes and the origins of those beliefs. Which sentences in this excerpt from Amy Ta

n's "Mother Tongue" indicate where Tan’s beliefs came from? You should know that my mother's expressive command of English belies how much she actually understands. She reads the Forbes report, listens to Wall Street Week, converses daily with her stockbroker, reads all of Shirley MacLaine’s books with ease—all kinds of things I can't begin to understand. Yet some of my friends tell me they understand fifty percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand eighty to ninety percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. 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.
English
1 answer:
WINSTONCH [101]3 years ago
4 0

Answer: 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.

In this passage, Tan is giving us information about her mother's speech. She uses various examples to convey what the mother's English sounds like and the kind of things she can accomplish with it. However, it is at the very end where Tan explains where her own views of the world come from. She argues that her perspective, her views on the world and her beliefs all come from her "mother tongue," which is the way her mother speaks English.

You might be interested in
What is communication​
givi [52]

Answer:

Communication is the act of giving, receiving, and sharing information, in other words, talking or writing, and listening or reading. Good communicators listen carefully, speak or write clearly, and respect different opinions.

4 0
3 years ago
Can someone help me. what is the subject and verb of question 4?
gayaneshka [121]

Answer:

is is a linking verb and I believe nepal is the subject

Explanation:

I say this because I feel like you would diagram it like "nepal | is

8 0
3 years ago
1. During a dramatic production we learn more and more about the characters and their feelings as the story progresses. Each sce
olga2289 [7]

Answer;sxslomxaopsm

Explanation:

6 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
What is the most important reason the Dark sends the snowstorms?
jeyben [28]
<span>C.
to make the people of London suffer</span>
8 0
3 years ago
* Write (2 paragraphs) on How the tradition of throwing out the ball by the President of the United states (POTUS) benefit and b
NNADVOKAT [17]
I remember doing something like this in my English/U.S. History class, so we are in the same shoes. ¯\_✿ ³✿_/¯

Washington has a entwined history with the sport of baseball. From President William Taft to President Barack Obama, every president since William Taft - exept Jimmy Carter - has thrown at least one ceremonial pitch while in office. A lot of presidents have had a history in the sport of baseball. And some of them could have made a career out of it.

President Warren Harding, for example, owned a baseball team in Ohio. Dwight Eisenhower used to play on a junior baseball team at West Point. Even so, Washington did not have a baseball team for almost 3 decades, from 1971, till when the Nationals came in 2005. George W. Bush was the first president to throw a pitch in the new Nationals' new ballpark. The opening pitch of a baseball is truly a POTUS tradition, and always will be - I hope. -
6 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • the puritans lacked laws to protect people from illegal searches and arrests. how does this fact add to your appreciation of the
    5·1 answer
  • Which word is the root or base word for the word mostly
    7·1 answer
  • Which of the following is the best revision of the inflated language example below?
    9·1 answer
  • The description below belongs to which of the following characters? physically strong, morally weak Silas Marner Nancy Lammeter
    10·2 answers
  • Which of the following sentences demonstrates correct pronoun-antecedent agreement?
    11·2 answers
  • Finish the lyrics "Im a Savage classy...……….
    5·2 answers
  • What are the examples of the press?<br> First Amendment
    14·2 answers
  • How does paragraph 6 impact the development of ideas in the text?WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST TO WHO IS RIGHT
    9·1 answer
  • HHHHHEEEEEELLLLPPPPPP I WILL MARK BRANLEST!!!!!!! How are the plural forms of fish and deer alike?
    13·1 answer
  • Which quotation from “Miss Brill” develops the idea that Miss Brill is deeply affected by the opinions of others?
    5·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!