Philip Caputo wanted the romance of war, bayonet charges, and desperate battles against impossible odds during the Vietnam War. hilip Caputo imagined himself charging up a beachhead, like John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), and this led him to join the Marines to fight in Vietnam. Michael Herr commented on the performance of `grunts' when they knew that there was a camera crew nearby and how they imitated the stars of war movies. So powerful were cinematic images of battle that soldiers acted as though they were on the screen according to Herr.
<u>Answer</u>:
Tthe sentence which can be revised to eliminate redundancies is
B: Juan was costumed in disguise when he entered the room.
<u>Explanation</u>:
Redundancy in a sentence refers to same data being used more than once in a sentence just by using a different word. It doesn’t make a sentence grammatically wrong, but more than one similar word seems unnecessary. They make the writing weak and not appealing. So, redundancy should be avoided while writing.
In the given sentences, Juan was costumed in disguise when he entered the room has redundancy. “In disguise” means when one is dressed differently or has made a different appearance. So, given sentence can be written as “Juan was disguised when he entered the room”. Writing “costumed in disguise” makes the sentence redundant.
In the excerpt, the evidence which suggests that being a spy for the American could be deadly is: 'That move probably saved him from hanging.'
George Higday was not killed by the British because he had already destroyed any evidence of being a spy. if spies were caught and identified as such, they were usually hanged.
George Washington was a spymaster and coordinated operations in order to gather intelligence about the moves of the British Army. He was known as agent 711 and recruited military and civilians to help fight for the American freedom.
