The singular noun in this sentence would be the word "Sand" because it's talking about the "Hot sand".
He walked across the hot "sand", hot is used to describe the word sand.
Thus your answer.... B. sand.
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Modern language association
Answer:The reader learns that Mr. Bennet’s property is entailed, meaning that it must pass to a man after Mr. Bennet’s death and cannot be inherited by any of his daughters. His two youngest children, Catherine (nicknamed Kitty) and Lydia, entertain themselves by beginning a series of visits to their mother’s sister, Mrs. Phillips, in the town of Meryton, and gossiping about the militia stationed there.
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