Which line in this excerpt from Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” shows that Tan changes her language depending on the audience?

A. I was giving a talk to a large group of people, the same talk I had already given to half a dozen other groups.

B. The talk was about my writing, my life, and my book, The Joy Luck Club, and it was going along well enough, until I remembered one major difference that made the whole talk sound wrong.

C. And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her.

D. I was saying things like “the intersection of memory upon imagination” and “There is an aspect of my fiction that relates to this-and-thus”

Explanation: The line from the excerpt from Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" that shows that Tan changes her language depending on the audience is the one stated above. In this excerpt, Amy Tan speaks about different kinds of English. There is one English that she used to use for her talks, and another completely different English which she uses with her mother, and in her intimacy.

chibuikeumeh chibuikeumeh · Answer 2 · 2022-05-30T11:37:02+02:00

The line showing the change is C. And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her.

What is an inference?

This is known as the conclusion reached on the basis of reasoning or evidence.

Hence, we can see that the line from the excerpt in Mother tongue, Tan changed her language depending on the audience she is speaking to.

She speaks about different kinds of English that are used for her talks and a different language she uses for her mother in her intimacy.