Read the excerpt from amy tan's essay "mother tongue."
i know this for a fact, because when i was growing up, my mother's "limited" english limited my perception of her. i was
ashamed of her english. i believed that her english reflected the quality of what she had to say. that is, because she
expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect.
which phrase from the excerpt uses informal english?
"limited my perception"
"her english reflected the quality"
"she expressed them imperfectly"
"when i was growing up"

In this project you will get practice writing sentences of more complexity. here is your goal for this assignment: write sentences containing present and past participles. write sentences containing gerunds. write ten sentences using the following terms as participles: feel, ride, smoke, pray, kneel, sacrifice, steal, talk, hit, and freeze. five of the terms must be used as present participles, while the other five must be used as past participles. then choose five of these verbs to write five sentences containing gerunds or gerund phrases. for these, identify the noun function of each gerund. your project will be graded based on the following: your attention to the instructions given above use of proper punctuation, spelling, grammar, and sentence construction (commonly called "conventions") requirements.