What is the author's attitude toward the English language in science and education expressed in the following paragraph?

Science cannot be advanced without the English language and textbooks and students will make better progress in the sciences by taking the English textbooks and learning the English (stet.) to boot than they will by giving exclusive attention to their own language and textbooks in our field and the same is true of any field where the Gospel is preached to intelligent beings.

Answer choices:

The author's opinion of the English language in science and education is best described as (positive, favorable, optimistic, amused, pleased; negative, respectful; critical, outraged, worried, unfavorable, angry, defiant; neutral, objective, impersonal, humorous.

The author's attitude toward the English language in science and education could best be described as one of (a researcher interest, approval, indifference, curiosity, etc.)

9. Make valid inferences based on the questions:

· Why does the author mention English lingua divina?

· Why does the author refer to Modern English as lingua frankensteinia?

· Why does the author mention English lingua cucula?

· Why does the author use the phrase “History the age-old battle between progress and reaction, between those who embrace the modern world and those who reject its existence.”?

· Why does the author describe the seemingly innocuous terms like ‘language death’ and ‘language spread’ as concepts that obscure agency?

Sample Answer Choices:

The author refers to/ The author describes / The author uses the phrase / The phrase ___proves that /The phrase ___is mentioned to illustrate that (to indicate that; to strengthen the argument that; to provide an example of; to challenge the idea that; to contradict; to support the proposal to; to illustrate the effect of; to make it easy for the reader to understand how; etc.

Section 2. Grammar workout

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