The correct answers are (B) <em>The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and their need, will defend to the death their native soils, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength, even though a large tract of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule.</em> and (C) <em>We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air</em>. In both of these extracts, Churchill explains how the combined power resulting from the collaboration with their allies like France could channel the ultimate victory over the threat to freedom that the Gestapo and the Nazis represented.
The recurrence of words and phrases for a specific effect
D) It was his usual custom to wash his hands before each meal.
When one is redundant, one basically says the same thing twice or says something that is unnecessary. For instance, it would be redundant to say “wet water” because water, by its nature is wet. Thus, when we look at Option D, the redundancy it contains is “usual custom.” This is redundant because an act that is customary, or is a custom, is so because of its usual practice.
