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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

What is the meaning of these sentences?

Could anyone help me, please?
I know all the words but I have problems because of the sentence structure.

"The language we are speaking now is a product of us both being exposed to English growing up."
  

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The core structure is: [ The language (that) we are speaking now ] is [ a product of us both being exposed to English (when we were) growing up ] In this case "product" means something like "result" or "outcome". "growing up" means passing through the early, formative years of one's life.

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  • The core structure is: [ The language (that) we are speaking now ] is [ a product of us both being exposed to English (when we were) growing up ] In this case "product" means something like "result" or "outcome".
  • "growing up" means passing through the early, formative years of one's life.
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The core structure is:

[ The language (that) we are speaking now ] is [ a product of us both being exposed to English (when we were) growing up ]

In this case "product" means something like "result" or "outcome". "growing up" means passing through the early, formative years of one's life.
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The USA has many people whose mother tongue is not English, but, as children, they went to English-speaking schools and had English-speaking American friends. That lead to the development of combination languages, the product of both the mother language and English. Sometimes we have names for these languages:

Spanglish = Spanish + English
Chinglish = Chinese + English

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