<span>D. I stood next to the glass display case that shone pristinely and gestured at the pies, tarts, and buns, with the aroma of cinnamon wafting in the air.</span>
The sentence that uses a linking verb is sentence A
I think the correct answer from the choices listed above is the last option. The connotation of narrow in the passage creates a feeling of suffocation. Narrow means <span> having a small distance from one side to the other. This could be related to suffocation due to the small space. Hope this answers the question.</span>