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'.
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.
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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