Read the excerpt from "Mother Tongue." Just last week, I was walking down the street with my mother, and | 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 i
with.
How does Tan build a central idea
of her story in the excerpt?

Will mark as brainliest excerpt from the christmas carol: use this information to deepen your understanding of the character. oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. the cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. a frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. he carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at christmas. race: use this organizational method to guide your writing- r – restate the prompt a – answer the prompt/questions c – cite evidence e – explain the evidence write your response here:

Which questions would most a reader identify the author's purpose for writing? check all that apply. what type of text is this? what type of reviews did the book receive? how many copies of the book have been sold? what is the central idea? how does this text make one feel? mark this and return save and exit

On what evidence did you base your predictions? check the four boxes that apply. there is a rope around his neck. he is in alabama. his hands are tied behind his back. he is standing high above a river. the bridge is for railroads. some crimes are punished by hanging.