After going over the recipe, the cake seemed easy to make. Which is the best revision of this sentence? After going over the rec
ipe, it seemed the cake would be easy to make. The cake seemed easy after going over the recipe for me to make. After going over the recipe, I believed the cake would be easy to make. The cake, after going over the recipe, seemed easy to make.
It allows the reader to see how the character came to be who he or she is currently, it creates realism in the text, it creates tension between the narrator and the character, etc.