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.
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B, Tan believes that nonstandard English can be an important part of family culture.

Explanation:

In the text, Tan states that "[nonstandard English]  has become our language of intimacy, a different sort of English that relates to family talk, the language I grew up with." Because Tan refers to nonstandard English as her and her husband's "language of intimacy," she indicates that it is an important part of their family intimacy.

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read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war

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