<span>in searching for something better, one may lose what one already has</span>
The correct answer for the given statement above would be option C. A clause used as the object of a preposition is called a noun clause. The object of the preposition will always be a noun. Therefore, the only clause that is also used as the object of a preposition is only the noun clause.
"And on the point now in question seems to be altogether blind and babbling" seems to sum up the opinion of the ancient Greeks and their studies of processes like the motion of matter perhaps because at that time of history of the classical learning much of it was based on pure speculation without going out and getting one's hands dirty and really perceiving phenomena with one's 5 senses as Georgius Agricola did in going down in underground mines to find out firsthand how mining was carried out.
A poem with fourteen lines and a mixed rhyme scheme is a sonnet. It is written in iambic pentameter where each line has 10 syllables. It has a rhyme scheme and specific turn. The rhyme scheme in English is usually abab-cdcd-efef-gg and in Italian abba-abba-cde-cde.
In the passage of Fitzgerald's "The great Gatsby", the reader can infer that the story conflict will be based on wealth and appearances, because of the contrast between the narrator's house, an "eyesore", and that of his neighbors, "white palaces".