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fill in the blank to complete the sentence with the appropriate word or words.
poet edna st. vincent millay lived as a young woman in new york city, where she found freedom to voice her opinions, set her own rules, and on her writing career.
concentrating concentrate to concentrate
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The sentence has a parallel structure with "found", "set", and the blank. The verbs "found" and "set" are in the simple past tense, but in the parallel structure (with "and"), we need the base form of the verb to match the infinitive or the base form usage? Wait, no—actually, the structure is "found freedom to voice... , set her own rules, and [verb] on her writing career". Wait, no, let's re - examine. The sentence structure is: she found freedom to voice her opinions, (found freedom to) set her own rules, and (found freedom to) [verb] on her writing career? No, the "to" is part of the infinitive "to voice", "to set" (but "set" is base form here, maybe the "to" is shared? Wait, no, the correct parallelism here is that after "found freedom to", we have "voice" (base form), "set" (base form), and "concentrate" (base form). Wait, the structure is "found freedom to voice..., set..., and concentrate...". Wait, the "to" is a shared infinitive marker? So the verbs "voice", "set", and "concentrate" are all in the base form, following the infinitive "to" (but "to" is only written once, and the verbs are in parallel). So the correct word is "concentrate" because it's in parallel with "voice" and "set" (base form verbs) after the infinitive "to" (even though "to" is not repeated, the structure is "to voice, (to) set, and (to) concentrate").

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concentrate