Question

Read the excerpt from "Mother Tongue."

And sure enough, the following week there we were in front of this astonished stockbroker, and I was sitting there red-faced and quiet, and my mother, the real Mrs. Tan, was shouting at his boss in her impeccable broken English.

The inference suggested by this excerpt is that nonstandard forms of English
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Answer 1

nonstandard forms of English can still be effective and powerful means of communication—they don’t prevent people from making themselves understood or from getting results.