In Yusef Komunyakaa's "Camouflaging the Chimera", the soldiers are <em>B. Preparing to fight.</em> In Komunyakaa's "Camouflaging the Chimera", the narrator tells us about the effort that American soldiers did to look like animals and blend in. The soldiers in Vietnam made a tremendous effort to blend with their surroundings, just as animals do to avoid being attacked by other animals "We tied branches to our helmets. We painted our faces and rifles with mud from a riverbank,...". These efforts were made to prevent the enemies from seeing them and so that they could launch a surprise assault on Vietnamese troops.
Answer: I would define commendations simply as “praise” and it would be a noun. Breaking down commendations into “commend” and “tion” allows me to see the definition of the root and then be able to apply the rule of the suffix, in this case, being that it forms nouns of action.
