In 3 ways to speak English by Jamila Lyiscott, she explains how articulate she was in her society. An example of her being articulate was when her father asked “Wha’ kinda ting is dis?”My “articulate” answer never goes amiss I say “father, this is the impending problem at hand” which proves to me how fluent she is with other languages. She responds back to everybody who questions in the respective way, this was one of the reason why the lady was baffled. Because she didn’t know a young girl like her can blend into these type of accent. She switches it up when she’s on the block with her friends because she wants them to be comfortable around her and this makes everybody her more articulate and also makes her accent stronger. Because the more she meets new people the more she expresses herself in these types of English for them to understand. She doesn’t think broken English is a big problem,but she rather thinks her English teacher will look stupid to the British people when she speaks her regular English. Jamila doesn’t wanna be judged about how she speaks because hers was stolen and broken.
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I’d like you to take a look at your example sentence– yes, it does show Jamila’s “articulate-ness” BUT you don’t explain HOW. I think you’re trying to when you say “which proves to me…” but fluency and articulation are two different ideas. Also, be careful of mentioning things that your reader might not be familiar with if they haven’t seen the whole work. “The lady was baffled” makes no sense to a reader if they are not sure what lady you’re referring to. Additionally, you want to really adhere to the MEAL pattern. So if you want to leave your father example and go into another example like the lady who is shocked, you’ll need a LINKING sentence first to get us from the father to the lady.
Thanks DW, I’ve seen the mistakes i did and i will work on it.