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Hoony Posted 7 years ago
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After describing this high pressure scenario, the students were given a choice to spend ten minutes sitting quietly or engaged in an expressive writing exercise.


Q. I don't know why 'engaged' is used. I think 'engaging' might be correct because of the pattern 'spend + objective + -ing form'.

  

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It's hard to find the meaning there. Here are 3 easier ways to write the sentence. After describing this high pressure scenario, the students were given a choice to spend ten minutes sitting quietly or to spend 10 minutes engaged in an expressive writing exercise.

  • It's hard to find the meaning there.
  • Here are 3 easier ways to write the sentence.
  • After describing this high pressure scenario, the students were given a choice to spend ten minutes sitting quietly or to spend 10 minutes engaged in an expressive writing exercise.
  • After describing this high pressure scenario, the students were given a choice to spend ten minutes sitting quietly or to spend 10 minutes engaging in an expressive writing exercise.
  • After describing this high pressure scenario, the students were given a choice to spend ten minutes sitting quietly or to spend 10 minutes in an expressive writing exercise.
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It's hard to find the meaning there. Here are 3 easier ways to write the sentence.


After describing this high pressure scenario, the students were given a choice to spend ten minutes sitting quietly or to spend 10 minutes engaged in an expressive writing exercise.

After describing this high pressure scenario, the student

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