This isn't a question and it's very confusing. If you explain, maybe i could help you :)
<span>The sentences in this excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" that seem to foreshadow Dexter’s future obsession with “possessing” Judy Jones are the following:
(1) </span><span>They persuaded Dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the State university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the East, where he was bothered by his scanty funds.
(2) </span><span>He wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves</span>
A. is corrrect because it makes sence "the peices fit" as i would say
Answer: here’s the answer, kind of a hint actually
Explanation: When two or more singular nouns or pronouns are connected by or or nor, use a singular verb. ... When a compound subject contains both a singular and a plural noun or pronoun joined by or or nor, the verb should agree with the part of the subject that is nearer the verb.
