Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. which information from the excerpt best supports the inference that achievement tests ignore imagination as an element of language ability? tan’s mother would not be able to answer a question like the one described in the excerpt. tan’s mother could think of several ways to answer a question like the one described in the excerpt. tan’s mother did not allow her to take tests with questions like the one described in the excerpt. tan’s mother was disappointed that tan did poorly on tests with questions like the one described in the excerpt.

The best detail in this question that describes the inference that was made is that Tan’s mother could think of several ways to answer a question like the one described in the excerpt.

What this excerpt means is that if Tan's mother was asked to answer the blanks she would think of a lot of ways to do this.

From the excerpt, we can see that there are blank spaces in the test that was given. The author said that the answers usually provided in the blanks by students are unimaginative and bland.

The author is trying to tell the reader that these tests are not a true test of one's ability to speak the English language.

She refers to her mother as a very imaginative person that can answer the question creatively in different ways.

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many phylogenetic trees have a single lineage at the base representing a common ancestor. a lineage that evolved early from the root and remains unbranched is called basal taxon. when two lineages stem from the same branch point, they are called sister taxa.

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