He was Scrooge's business partner. He was dead for seven years at the begining of the story.
Write down any ideas that come to mind then you can see what catches your attention. Try using a mind map to help
The correct matches are as follows:
<span>1.language spoken by educated Americans
</span>idiom<span>
2.street language that coins new words and new meanings
</span>slang
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3.regional variation of the national language
</span>dialect<span>
4.language of a skill, trade, or profession
</span>standard English<span>
5.phrases and expressions unique to a language
</span>jargon<span>
6.sounds and sound patterns that are meaningful to people from the same culture
</span>language<span>
7.graphic representation of sounds
</span>writing<span>
8.language spoken by a child learning to talk
</span>ungrammatical speech<span>
</span>
I would say the correct answer is <span>C. The author doesn't use any facts to support such a claim, so it can't be proven. When making this kind of claim, one has to support it with facts, e.g. artists make this or that percent of their income on concerts and commercials, which clearly proves that they don't depend on the money from CDs etc. The options A and B are not correct because they rely on "everyone knows", which is not true, and is also not supported with facts. The D option isn't correct because one doesn't need to know every artist personally to be able to make a claim based on facts.</span>
