Reading Comprehension

Pl. explain which one would be the answer and why....

The English spoken across the Atlantic began to receive admiring commentaries from British visitors. William Eddis, who toured the colonies in 1770, was surprised to find that "the language of the immediate descendants of such a promiscuous ancestry is perfectly uniform, and unadulterated; nor has it borrowed any provincial, or national accent, from its British or foreign parentage."

A few years later, another visitor noted: "It is a curious fact that there is perhaps no one portion of the British empire, in which two or three millions of persons speak their mother-tongue with greater purity, or a truer pronunciation, than the white inhabitants of the United States." And even John Witherspoon noted that "the vulgar in America speak much better than the vulgar in England."

L. Dillard has suggested that the colonists created a koine language, a kind of standardized dialect that often emerges among a group of emigrants speaking various dialects of one basic language. When the colonists came to North America, they left behind their old social order, including the social rankings of dialects. They came in contact with a wide range of other languages: the foreign tongues of the maritime trade, the Creoles of slaves, the languages of the Indians. These influences accelerated the breakdown of the colonists' English regional dialects and resulted in the formation of a naturally standardized American speech pattern, which British visitors later discovered and praised.

English opinions of American speech, of course, were of relatively little interest to the colonists, who quite impolitely proceeded to separate themselves from the empire. In the aftermath of the Revolution, there was understandably even less of an urge to subscribe to English authority, in matters of language or anything else, and the Americans embarked on a period of furious growth and industry with occasional romanticism.Which of the following is the best description of the organization of the passage?

A. A phenomenon is explored, and then an event which exemplifies it is described.

B. A situation is described, and that situation and its impact are then explained.

C. A judgment is defended, and then a theory is expounded that contradicts it.

D. A judgment is made, and a problem stemming from it is then described.


regards,

Ansumania
E. A solution is presented, followed by an observation and an assumption.

ansumania wrote:Pl. explain which one would be the answer and why....

The English spoken across the Atlantic began to receive admiring commentaries from British visitors. William Eddis, who toured the colonies in 1770, was surprised to find that "the language of the immediate descendants of such a promiscuous ancestry is perfectly uniform, and unadulterated; nor has it borrowed any provincial, or national accent, from its British or foreign parentage."

A few years later, another visitor noted: "It is a curious fact that there is perhaps no one portion of the British empire, in which two or three millions of persons speak their mother-tongue with greater purity, or a truer pronunciation, than the white inhabitants of the United States." And even John Witherspoon noted that "the vulgar in America speak much better than the vulgar in England."

L. Dillard has suggested that the colonists created a koine language, a kind of standardized dialect that often emerges among a group of emigrants speaking various dialects of one basic language. When the colonists came to North America, they left behind their old social order, including the social rankings of dialects. They came in contact with a wide range of other languages: the foreign tongues of the maritime trade, the Creoles of slaves, the languages of the Indians. These influences accelerated the breakdown of the colonists' English regional dialects and resulted in the formation of a naturally standardized American speech pattern, which British visitors later discovered and praised.

English opinions of American speech, of course, were of relatively little interest to the colonists, who quite impolitely proceeded to separate themselves from the empire. In the aftermath of the Revolution, there was understandably even less of an urge to subscribe to English authority, in matters of language or anything else, and the Americans embarked on a period of furious growth and industry with occasional romanticism.Which of the following is the best description of the organization of the passage?

A. A phenomenon is explored, and then an event which exemplifies it is described.

B. A situation is described, and that situation and its impact are then explained.

C. A judgment is defended, and then a theory is expounded that contradicts it.

D. A judgment is made, and a problem stemming from it is then described.


regards,

Ansumania
E. A solution is presented, followed by an observation and an assumption.

IMO A.

The passage depicts a phenomenon in the first two paras, how the english language across the atlantic was better and in the 3 para it describes an event
The passage does not describe a situation here and also any impacts are explained, ruling out B
It gives an example in the 3rd para how english language,which latter was discovered was praised by the british colonists,
and hence does not contradict any prior thought, rule out C.
There are no problems refferred and hence no solutions.
, rule out D and E.

OA ?

ansumania wrote:Pl. explain which one would be the answer and why....

The English spoken across the Atlantic began to receive admiring commentaries from British visitors. William Eddis, who toured the colonies in 1770, was surprised to find that "the language of the immediate descendants of such a promiscuous ancestry is perfectly uniform, and unadulterated; nor has it borrowed any provincial, or national accent, from its British or foreign parentage."

A few years later, another visitor noted: "It is a curious fact that there is perhaps no one portion of the British empire, in which two or three millions of persons speak their mother-tongue with greater purity, or a truer pronunciation, than the white inhabitants of the United States." And even John Witherspoon noted that "the vulgar in America speak much better than the vulgar in England."

L. Dillard has suggested that the colonists created a koine language, a kind of standardized dialect that often emerges among a group of emigrants speaking various dialects of one basic language. When the colonists came to North America, they left behind their old social order, including the social rankings of dialects. They came in contact with a wide range of other languages: the foreign tongues of the maritime trade, the Creoles of slaves, the languages of the Indians. These influences accelerated the breakdown of the colonists' English regional dialects and resulted in the formation of a naturally standardized American speech pattern, which British visitors later discovered and praised.

English opinions of American speech, of course, were of relatively little interest to the colonists, who quite impolitely proceeded to separate themselves from the empire. In the aftermath of the Revolution, there was understandably even less of an urge to subscribe to English authority, in matters of language or anything else, and the Americans embarked on a period of furious growth and industry with occasional romanticism.Which of the following is the best description of the organization of the passage?

A. A phenomenon is explored, and then an event which exemplifies it is described.

B. A situation is described, and that situation and its impact are then explained.

C. A judgment is defended, and then a theory is expounded that contradicts it.

D. A judgment is made, and a problem stemming from it is then described.


regards,

Ansumania
E. A solution is presented, followed by an observation and an assumption.

A for me too...

POE rules over here!!

OA ?

Hi,

Why not the option B?

As I can see, the passage says that the colonists in America have developed a language which is free from British dialect and then it goes on to describe the reasoning behind this because of coming into contact with other persons and as a result they broke down the British dialect and made a standardised language for all. Then it goes onto say how Americans became different from British influence not only in language but also in growth and industry. So we can also see as an impact of the situation above.

Please feel free to correct my stand.

I also feel it is B for the same reason.
What is the OA ? Please help us understand this better. Thank you