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ansumania
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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.
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.
