Read this excerpt from "a letter from birmingham jail" by martin luther king jr.: now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. which statement best describes the connotative meaning of the word quicksand? it has a negative connotation, suggesting instability and stymied progress. it has a negative connotation, suggesting misplaced anger and vice. it has a positive connotation, suggesting speed and efficiency. it has a positive connotation, suggesting hope and radical change.

It has a negative connotation, suggesting instability and stymied progress.

A connotative meaning is something that is associated to or an expression carried by the dictionary meaning of the word. The possible connotation of “quicksand” is “instability and stymied progress” as its primary meaning which is an area/situation that is difficult to escape can be associated to describe the racial injustice of the nation, as the excerpt says.

old english did not sound like modern english, which differs widely in phonology and especially in grammar, so taht old english is unintelligible to modern speakers.

the average english was strongly influenced by the anglo-norman as later by the anglo-french. the pronunciation was affected by the norman with the sounds   "/ θ / and / ð / " transcribed as th.

modern english was standarized from the london dialect and extended by the government and administartion as well as by the effects of printing, began to acquire more words from other languages as well to imporve in a more fluent pronunciation.

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