The answer is C. Hope that helped!
They were tasked with protecting the movement of trade goods. They also kept defense of the northern and western frontier against Indian and Mexican incursions, defense of the coast against Union invasion, and suppression of Union loyalists within Texas.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
The aspect of language that is giving you trouble is "phonemes."
In Linguistics, a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound speech. We can say it is the letters that form a word, but in speech, we call them phonemes. For instance. The word "boy" has three phonemes: "b," "o," and "y."