In which excerpt from john donne's a valediction forbidding mourning indicates what the speaker does not want his wife to mourn? a. while some of their sad friends do say /the breath goes now b. out two souls therefore, which are one/though i must go, endure not yet c. moving of th' earth brings harm and fears/men reckon what it did d. thy firmness makes my circle just/and makes me end

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”