Which of these answers is an indicator that the prisoners are emotionally numb? a. sons abandoned their fathers without emotion. b. the men tell each other to have courage. c. the men feel hopeful now that americans have arrived d. the snow has made them cold.

A.Sons abandoned their fathers without emotion.

Explanation:

The explanation for this answer is simple. If the prisoners were emotionally numb, it means that they were lacking or deficient in emotion or feeling; they are indifferent, unable to act or feel emotion and deprived of physical sensation.

Therefore, the only alternative that combines with this description is option A, which shows "sons who were without emotions", that is, they were emotionally numb. The other alternatives show some kind of emotion or physical sensation.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.