But she always pretended they were at fault. "What did you do to provoke them? It takes two to tangle, you know." –“Daughter of Invention,” Julia Alvarez Read the passage. In it, the mother misuses the English idiom “It takes two to tango.” What does her language show about her as a character? She has picked up expressions and uses them like a native English speaker. She is at ease in her new home. She is embarrassed to speak. She has trouble communicating clearly in English.

Me with english (easy for you) 50 points

What experience makes wind-wolf want to stop attending school?

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. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.