Making Inferences to Determine Central Ideas: Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue"
Question 5 of 26 • GA-Literature and Composition III
Read the excerpt from "Mother Tongue." And sure enough, the following week there we were in front of this astonished stockbroker, and I was sitting there red-faced and quiet, and my mother, the real Mrs. Tan, was shouting at his boss in her impeccable broken English.The inference suggested by this excerpt is that nonstandard forms of English
Answer
A
are used more by older adults than by younger adults
B
can be as effective as the standard form of English
C
limit the speaker’s ability to stand up for herself