read the following passage carefully before you choose your answers.
(the passage below is excerpted from an essay published in the early twentieth century.)
every child has to learn the language he is born to. it is certain that he will make mistakes in the process, especially as he is not taught it by any wise system, but blunders into what usage he can grasp from day to day.
now, if an adult foreigner were learning our language, and we greeted his efforts with yells of laughter, we should think ourselves grossly rude. and what should we think of ourselves if we further misled him by setting absurd words and phrases before him, encouraging him to further blunders, that we might laugh the more; and then, if we had visitors, inciting him to make these blunders over again to entertain the company? yet this is common household sport, so long as there is a little child to act as zany* for the amusement of his elders. the errors of a child are not legitimate grounds of humour, even to those coarse enough to laugh at them, any more than a toddling baby’s falls have the same elements of the incongruous as the overthrow of a stout old gentleman who sits down astonished in the snow
the three sentences in paragraph 7 ( here is a legitimate... never laugh at them?\) serve primarily to
a recount a humorous story to lighten the discussion of a controversial issue
b provide a distinction to emphasize the passage’s main point
c offer an example to illustrate an unusual phenomenon discussed earlier
d introduce an analogy to justify a misunderstood practice

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read the following passage carefully before you choose your answers.
(the passage below is excerpted from an essay published in the early twentieth century.)
every child has to learn the language he is born to. it is certain that he will make mistakes in the process, especially as he is not taught it by any wise system, but blunders into what usage he can grasp from day to day.
now, if an adult foreigner were learning our language, and we greeted his efforts with yells of laughter, we should think ourselves grossly rude. and what should we think of ourselves if we further misled him by setting absurd words and phrases before him, encouraging him to further blunders, that we might laugh the more; and then, if we had visitors, inciting him to make these blunders over again to entertain the company? yet this is common household sport, so long as there is a little child to act as zany* for the amusement of his elders. the errors of a child are not legitimate grounds of humour, even to those coarse enough to laugh at them, any more than a toddling baby’s falls have the same elements of the incongruous as the overthrow of a stout old gentleman who sits down astonished in the snow
the three sentences in paragraph 7 (	here is a legitimate... never laugh at them?\) serve primarily to
a recount a humorous story to lighten the discussion of a controversial issue
b provide a distinction to emphasize the passage’s main point
c offer an example to illustrate an unusual phenomenon discussed earlier
d introduce an analogy to justify a misunderstood practice

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# Brief Explanations:
The passage argues that laughing at a child's language blunders is not legitimate humor. The final three sentences draw an analogy between laughing at a child's mistakes and laughing at a falling baby or a gentleman falling in the snow, both of which rely on incongruous, unkind humor. This analogy is used to justify why mocking a child's language errors is an unfair, misunderstood practice.
# Answer:
D. introduce an analogy to justify a misunderstood practice

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