True or False T or F
People around the world use English to talk about business.

T or F
Hollywood movies are the biggest reason why English is so popular.

T or F
Many English words come from other languages.

T or F England was a world power before the United States.

T or F
The same numbers of people speak Mandarin and English.

T or F
English grammar has more difficult rules than most other languages.

T or F
English became the language of science in the 1800s.

T or F
More people speak English as their second third or fourth language than as their first.

Which two pieces of evidence support the idea that coal is underutilized? this was on study island about coal

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.

Which word in this excerpt from act i, scene i, of richard iii means “to listen”