A student is writing a paragraph about "Broken Chain" that makes the point that Alfonso cares a lot about his bicycle. What would be the best illustration of this point? He polishes his bike until it gleams “like a handful of dimes.”
He sits on his bike “with the kickstand down” in his backyard.
He races away on his bike with the wind “raking through his butch.”
He and his brother ride “side by side” on their way to school.

Which trait is common to the narrators in these excerpts? a the narrators were born in poverty the narrators were separated from their birth parents c. the narrators grew up to be criminals d the narrators worked hard in lide to improva their ocial status the narrators blamed themselves for their mistortunps

In poem daffodils-how do we know that the yellow daffodils has a long lasting effect on the speaker.

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.”