PLSSS HELP ASAP 50 POINTS AND BRAINIEST In this lesson, you will learn about Mark Twain's use of colloquial language. At times, it might seem difficult to understand what the character Simon Wheeler is saying. Complete this journal assignment after you have completed the lesson.

Choose a paragraph from Part 1 of the story that contains colloquial language. It should be at least five sentences long. Copy the paragraph in your journal. Then, rewrite the paragraph using the grammar and spelling conventions of Standard American English.

WILL GIVE BRAINIES

The paragraph I'm choosing is this one (the words in bold are colloquial words):

"Well, thish-yer Smiley had rat-ta.rriers, and chicken co.cks, and tom- cats, and all of them kind of things, till you couldn't rest, and you couldn't fetch nothing for him to bet on but he'd match you. He ketc.hed a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal'k.lated to ed.ercate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump. And you bet you he did learn him, too. He'd give him a little pun.ch behind, and the next minute you'd see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut see him turn one summerset, or may be a couple, if he got a good start, and come down flat-footed and all right, like a cat. "

"Rewritten form of those bolded words only:

"Well, this here Smiley had rat-tarrie.rs, and chicken c.ocks, and tom- cats, and all of them kind of things, till you couldn't rest, and you couldn't fetch nothing for him to bet on but he'd match you. He caught a frog one day, and took him home, and said he calculated to eradicate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump. And you bet you he did learn him, too. He'd give him a little punch behind, and the next minute you'd see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut see him turn one summerset, or may be a couple, if he got a good start, and come down flat-footed and all right, like a cat. "

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