Question 81·Hard·Form, Structure, and Sense

Start with Renowned choreographer Maya Lopez, the subject, or who the sentence is about. For this verb form question, we need to know whether she still needs a main verb, the verb that says what she does. What does she do? The words often begins rehearsals give us begins, so the words before the comma already make a complete sentence.

Does the blank belong to a new clause, a part with its own subject and verb, or a list of actions joined by and? After improvisational exercises, there's no new subject or joining word, so the blank still refers to Lopez. Read on to in which dancers feel free to experiment: feel belongs to dancers, not Lopez. The blank must add a detail, not a second main verb without a joining word.

Could created be a form that describes Lopez rather than a main verb? As a past participle, a verb form that can describe a noun, created would describe someone or something that was created. But Maya Lopez makes an atmosphere, so she makes the atmosphere rather than being made herself. Here, created, create, and creates would add a second main verb without a joining word.

The exercises produce an atmosphere in which dancers feel free to experiment, so this detail tells us what results from Lopez’s way of starting rehearsals. Since she makes that atmosphere, an -ing form can describe the result: creating adds the detail without becoming another main verb. Choice B.