Identify the correct sentence.
a. all the neighbors watched as the firefighters will fight the blaze.
b. maria's toy boat stayed afloat, but gabriel's boat sinks in the pond.
c. i gave ping a book for her birthday, and she gives me a cd for mine.
d. josef walked on the beach, and he also swam in the ocean.

Read the first stanza of wallace stevens's 'the anecdote of the jar' below: i placed a jar in tennessee, and round it was, upon a hill. it made the slovenly wilderness surround that hill. which of these is the best paraphrase of the stanza? o a. when i placed a jar outside in tennessee, it seemed to dominate all of nature. o b. the round jar i put on a hill looked strange amidst the wildness of nature o c. i put a round jar on a hill in tennessee, and the jar made the wilderness surround it. o d. i placed a jar on a round, wilderness-covered hill in tennessee.