The answer is A: sinking because gothic means something’s gloomy and eerie. Sinking is the only word that is gloomy and eerie. Hope this helped!
Answer:
a, b, b, a
Just look at the last words and see if they rhyme. Day's rhyme with praise and Lights rhymes with right.
Private property can help to - (A) encourage people to keep their property clean and neat .
I think this is the right one.
Graham Greene, The Evening Redness In The West
The sentence that has the correct subject- verb agreement is the following one: Neither the Western Hemisphere nor the Eastern Hemisphere are immune to flooding.
The verb "to be" can't be singular because the writer mentions the two hemispheres (the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern one). That is why the first option is the correct one.