Answer: Zinsser's claim was to assert the failure that is not final because often people had come out as a stronger result.
The advice Zinsser had given was to tackle you life in easily manageable chunks
Explanation: hope it helps
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.
Hope this helps. :)
Prepositional phrase: on Ben's shoulder
Subject: Tattoo
Verb: spells