The correct word to complete the sentence is "followed." Therefore, the full sentence would be:
"Competition was fierce. People spoke of nothing else in the days that followed, admiring the winner and promising themselves that one day, their own kite would fly proudly over the town."
We can arrive at this answer because:
- At the beginning of the sentence, we can see that the competition took place days ago.
- This is because the narrator uses the expression "was fierce" to refer to the competition and "was" is a verb that indicates that this occurred in the past.
- Therefore, people can only have commented on the competition after it was over, that is, in the days that followed the competition.
Therefore, the only word capable of completing the blank space and leaving the sentence coherent and correct would be "followed."
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