The bay was his first love, a love he never forgot, wearing a garland of bay leaves in its memory.

what is the most precise way to state the information in this sentence?

a the bay was his first love, a love he never forgot, and he wore a garland of the fragrant green bay leaves in its memory.
b the green bay tree was his first love, a love he never forgot, and he wore a garland of the bay leaves in its memory.
c the bay tree was his first love, a love he never forgot, and he wore a garland of its leaves in the tree’s memory.
d the bay was apollo’s first love, a love he never forgot, and wearing a garland of its leaves in its memory.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   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. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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the answer is a.

explanation:

the clause "looking toward the south" modifies "a funnel cloud." it's not really the cloud that's "looking," but grammatically, that clause is modifying the cloud.

the answer is academic paper

and the second should be college professor