The last one would be the only one that has the comma before the quote
B - VP
The fragment contains the verb (sank) as well as how and where (something) sank. The missing fragment would contain the NP as it would share the noun and what actually sank.
The correct answer is B. I will be on time for the meeting. This is because linking verbs don't show any action, rather they describe the relation between the subject and the object. This is why he will exist in the meeting on time, as "be" is not a verb that expresses action.
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In his essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," poet Langston Hughes interprets the statement of a young African-American poet that, "I want to be a poet—not a Negro poet," to mean, "I want to write like a white poet"; this suggests he was really expressing a subconscious desire to be white. Hughes goes on to argue that this apparent aspiration to bourgeois gentility, as embodied by the dominant Caucasian society, and the psychological cost that adherence to its constraints on creative freedom implies, is terribly damaging to the quality of the creative work and to the spiritual integrity of any African American artist who would embrace it. And it only adds insult to injury that not only does white society pressure African American artists to conform to its standards, but his own people often share the same attitude: "Oh, be respectable, write about nice people, show how good we are, . . . "
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