D the whales were close to becoming extinct
C. the word Have shows you it is past tense but it does not end in ed so it is no a past participle.
Amy Tan makes the reader care about her narrative in the mother tongue by
- Her choice of words in the second paragraph
- The way she said has three different ways of using the English language
- How her mother is treated due to her poor grasp of English
In the second paragraph, she described language as something that can evoke an emotion out of someone.
The way she described the three different ways that she uses English language was intriguing. Her English varies during conversations with her mother, When she she is giving a conversation to her audience, and also when she is writing.
She described her mother's English as broken and limited and how people do not pay much attention to fully understand what she has to say.
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