Now try the following examples: Rewrite each sentence placing parentheses in the correct
places:
1. My mother likes although I don't know why old folk music.
2. All tiger species especially the South China tiger are endangered.
3. Danny told Shelly can you believe this? that he made an A on the test
4. Brad Pitt real name: William Bradley Pitt is a famous actor.
5. I wanted to go on Monday my day off! but no one else did.
6. Belize formerly British Honduras is in Central America.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”