<span>There are only two verbs in the sentence 'went' and 'is' so it must be 'is'. However the word 'which' acts as a conjunction which thus links the two things together. Without the 'We went' bit it would be 'Santa Fe is the second oldest city in the US.'</span>
Answer:
Indirect
Explanation:
He uses the expression of Hester rather then direct sentences.
<span>It could be said that Tan's essay might be a “compare/ contrast” one, because it is presented as a comparison of the English language. She exposes his ideas and provides examples of them , personal experiences and she gives a definition of “mother tongue” and she resorts to his mother to provide a clear example of this topic.The she provides more examples to illustrate her point. It could be said that the text is divided into 3 parts: part 1 presents some situations about different styles of English. Part 2 addresses to her mother limitations with the language and the last part, n°3 focuses on her and how she wrote her stories.</span>
It's been a while since I've read the book and I don't really a lot of the context, so just from this passage I would say it says he notices nice houses and other people's wealth and maybe envies them a little bit. (although you don't get that explicitly from this passage.)
