Read the following passages
people assumed that grandmother didn't know english, but
she could understand and speak it well. she was just
proud. i tried to convince her that no one cared about her
accent, but she disagreed. i told her this wasn't like back
home, where she would be looked down upon for any little
grammatical error. but she didn't believe me. she had lived
too long in a country where one's speech reflected his or
her status
how could the author best resolve this situation to create a feeling of
humorous triumph?
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a. the narrator continues encouraging the grandmother and working
with her to perfect her language skills.
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b. the grandmother continues to speak only her native language, but
the narrator is glad that he lives in a bilingual household
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c. the grandmother moves back to her native country, where she is
able to express herself freely
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d. the grandmother uses her new language perfectly to respond to a
man who believed she couldn't understand his insults,

In melville's "bartleby the scrivener," why does the narrator refuse to fire bartleby even after bartleby has told him he will never write for him again? select all that apply

The overwhelming majority of the peoples and nations of the world today want to live in peace

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.