REPORTS ON FACTS In-Class Assignment 2

Student’s name: Nguyễn Thị Kiều Trinh

Student ID: BABAIU21562
Group: 12

Original Reading Passage

Source: Paragraphs 1 and 2 from a December 20, 2001, online article entitled “A world empire by other means.”
The author’s name is not given. It was published on Economist.com, the Web site of a British magazine. The Web
site address is:
(http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=S%26%2BXL%2FRA%5F%24%0A)

Read the text below and write an account on why English can maintain the growth of its
dominance now and well into the next 30 years.
(Not more than 50 words.)

English can continue its dominance now and for the next 30 years for the reasons listed below.
First, genders are straightforward since English uses "it" as the pronoun for all inanimate nouns,
with masculine reserved for genuine males and feminine reserved for females (and countries and
ships). However, the verbs are frequently irregular, the grammar is odd, and the matching of
spelling and pronunciation is a problem. Furthermore, English is now so extensively used in so
many areas that a plethora of dialects have arisen, some of which are so odd that even "native"
speakers may have difficulty understanding one other. Even daily English is a subtle, nuanced,
and complex language.