Answer:
It reminds me of what is going on recently. The blm protests are a lot like the way the people protested in the book/movie.
The doctor said, when did you last take your temperature
I believe this an example of complex sentence structure.
My reasoning is that most of these sentences are in fact compound complex sentences-
Compound-complex sentences contain two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.
An example of a complex sentence is this: “I burned dinner but not the cake.”
Answer:
The option which best summarizes the central idea of the excerpt is:
Non standard forms of English are valid
Explanation:
This is an excerpt from Mother Tongue.
Mother tongue is the very first language or the native language of an individual that he or she learns from childhood.
The central idea of the excerpt suggests that no matter how different a person’s English Language sounds, it still remains valid and that all forms of English Language are meaningful.
Here, the speaker speaks up about her mother’s English Language to support the idea that it is her truest form of expression, and that it was the language that first made sense to her and helped her interpret the world.