He was busy writing the novel all day and all night,only____ to have a break for a while.

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He was busy writing the novel all day and all night,only____ to have a break for a while.
填stop的适当形式,答案是stopping,为什么呢?

这里的主句是He was busy writing the novel all day and all night...o
only后面的是伴随状语,你这样想,他一直日日夜夜的创作小说,伴随的状态就是不停下来休息.
这里停下来休息的stop是人主动的停下来,so就用现在分词stopping