17. Which of the following is grammatically accurate?
(A) Born and raised in British Guiana, Grace Nichols is working as a freelance journalist afterreceiving a diploma in communications from the University of Guyana in 1977.
(B) In her poems, Nichols memorializes the uprooting of Africans and their languages whereslavery brought those peoples to the West Indies, when a new tongue grew “from the rootof the old one.”
(C) The new tongues melding English with African and European languages, Nichols celebratesit with a vibrant medium for literature.
(D) She writes of black immigrants’ reverse colonization off the English language and offEnglish society.
(E) In her poetry, the speaker—appropriating and reversing cultural stereotypes—transformsLondon’s landscape by virtue of her robust physical, verbal, and cultural presence.