Question

select the correct text in the passage.
which line in this excerpt from amy tans mother tongue shows that tan changes her language depending on the audience?
i was giving a talk to a large group of people, the same talk i had already given to half a dozen other groups. 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: my mother was in the room. 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. i was saying things like the intersection of memory upon imagination and there is an aspect of my fiction that relates to thus-and- thus—a speech filled with carefully wrought grammatical phrases, burdened, it suddenly seemed to me, with nominalized forms, past perfect tenses, conditional phrases, forms of standard english that i had learned in school and through books...

Explanation:

This text contrasts the formal, standard English Tan uses for her speech to a large group with the different "mother tongue" she uses with her mother, showing she adapts her language to her audience.

Answer:

"I was saying things like 'the intersection of memory upon imagination' and 'There is an aspect of my fiction that relates to thus-and-thus'—a speech filled with carefully wrought grammatical phrases, burdened, it suddenly seemed to me, with nominalized forms, past perfect tenses, conditional phrases, forms of standard English that I had learned in school and through books..."