Question
It was a sturdy house (completing) with a fine fireplace
and chimney. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.Solution
Grammatically, ‘completing’ is incorrect as the sentence is in simple past tense. Compete or contemplate do not fit in the blank as they are contextually incorrect. ‘complete’ will be the correct answer as it is making the sentence correct in all aspects.
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