Question

A few days later, he was .......... (look) out of his of window when he noticed a group
of brick-layers .......... (erect) the walls of a new building. Brick upon brick, row upon
row, they made the building rise.
That was the encouragement Carlyle .....8.... (need). He took up his pen and recalled
and rewrote word for word, sentence for sentence, page by page, the work that won
him an eminent place in literary history.​

Answer 1

Answer:

locked

Explanation:

this is past tense so looked instead of look is used

Answer 2

Looking
Erected
Needed