Combining sentences encourages a writer to take two or more short, choppy sentences and combine them into one effective sentence.
The answer is, “Thoreau has not paid braces for a number of years and is thinking of leaving the country to give his allegiance to another.”
Thoreau states that he refuses to allegiance to the state withdraw. So this mean that he didn’t pay his taxes.
If the underlined word is only 'barking', then the correct answer is B) present participle, because those are used to form present progressive tense, as is the case here.
A) would be 'barked'.
C) would be 'bark/barks'.
D) would be 'barked', the same as A.
Assuming this is referring to the same set of selections that was posted before, the proper answer is the line that as to do with the "coming of the dawn".