Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." just last week, i was walking down the street with my mother, and i again found myself conscious of the english i was using, the english i do use with her. we were talking about the price of new and used furniture and i heard myself saying this: “not waste money that way.” my husband was with us as well, and he didn’t notice any switch in my english. and then i realized why. it’s because over the twenty years we’ve been together i’ve often used that same kind of english with him, and sometimes he even uses it with me. it has become our language of intimacy, a different sort of english that relates to family talk, the language i grew up with. what can be inferred from the excerpt? tan believes that nonstandard english can make family communication difficult. tan believes that nonstandard english can be an important part of family culture. tan believes that the use of nonstandard english is a way to keep family business private. tan believes that the use of nonstandard english must be guarded against in public.

The correct answer is "Tan believes that nonstandard english can be an important part of family culture".

In this excerpt, Tan refers to a certain episode in which she notices her use of non-standard english when speaking to her husband. What jumps out to her about this interaction is that he immediately understood what she meant. Tan realizes that this is the case because there's a deeper bond carrying their communication, which is related to the level of familiar intimacy they share and the amount of time they have spent together. Even when they're not speaking "proper english", they're still able to understand each other perfectly because they're already used to each other's expressions of non-standard english, which have become a part of their family culture throughout the years.

Hope this helps!

a personal narrative essay is about a personal experience, so it is usually written in the first person. to maximize its impact, the essay should: be written to have an emotional impact on the reader. include a lot of references to sensory perceptions and hope i

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .