Question

Please read the following sentence. Once Jane lifted her pen and made a start, writing the essay became easy. If we change the start of the sentence to: Writing the essay became easy. What will the ending be​

Answer 1

Answer:

The complete sentence is found to be:

Writing the essay became easy once Jane lifted her pen and made a start.

Explanation:

Note that “Writing the essay” may be a gerund phrase (working as a noun) and is expressing neither the tense of “to write” nor the person writing. Those two required components are clarified by the past tense form "became" and by the person and verb form in the subordinate clause.

Thus, as the phrase "Writing the essay became easy" is in past tense, the incomplete part will also be in the past tense.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Writing the essay became easy once Jane lifted her pen and made a start.

Explanation:

"Writing an essay" is a gerund (which works as a noun) and does not express the tense of "writing" or the person who writes it. These two essential elements are indicated by the past tense "was" and the form of the person and verb in the subordinate clause.

Since the sentence "Writing the essay became easy" is the past tense, the incomplete part is also the past tense.

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