Craft and StructureVery hardTwo views on when a dialect began to fade
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The decline of the town's dialect began with the railway in 1850, which brought in outsiders and their speech.
Text 2
A schoolmaster recorded the dialect's distinctive vowels in 1848 as already heard only among the old, two years before the railway. The railway found a decline already under way.
How would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Text 1?
- A. By using a dated source to argue that the decline began before the cause that Text 1 names.Correct
- B. By agreeing that the railway started the decline.
- C. By denying that outsiders came on the railway.
- D. By arguing that the dialect has not declined.
Answer: A. By using a dated source to argue that the decline began before the cause that Text 1 names.
Already fading in 1848.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By agreeing that the railway started the decline.
- Text 2 places the start earlier.
- C. By denying that outsiders came on the railway.
- Not denied.
- D. By arguing that the dialect has not declined.
- Text 2 accepts the decline.
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