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Help the restaurant manager complete the incident report by choosing the grammatically correct option for each gap.
After turning the expensive duck into literal charcoal, _________________________ the panicked chef actually did _________________________ _________________________ a dozen pizzas for the food critics.
The correct answers are what, was, and order.
What introduces the pseudo-cleft clause ("what the panicked chef actually did"), which acts as the subject of the sentence.
Was is the singular linking verb. It is in the past tense to agree with the action ("did").
Order is a bare infinitive. In a Wh-cleft sentence that focuses on an action using a form of "do" (e.g., what he did), the emphasized action that follows the verb to be takes the form of a bare infinitive (or sometimes a full infinitive), rather than matching the tense of the main verb.