Take a look at the sentence again:
Jeanne __________ her house of twenty years with great misgivings; she worried
that the new owners would dig up the bones of her beloved cat, Emmy Lou,
to put a pool or rose garden in the backyard.
The sentence requires the simple past of sell, an irregular verb. Sold is the simple past form.
| Verb | Simple Present | Simple Past | Past Participle |
| sell | sell(s) | sold | sold |
Sole, the form you chose, is a spelling error. Before you continue, review the rules for irregular verbs.
Try again to escape Grammar Hell!