You should always end on a note that’s likely to stick in the reader’s mind.
You can look at the words in front and behind it, because they refer to this big word. You may find a synonym of the word or a close reference. So for example in this sentence: I was excited and ambitious to learn about cars today. So this is a easy example. You can use exited to define ambitious if you dont know what ambitious means.
The two subjects of the sentence are Colonel Lloyd and his "finely cultivated garden".
Change was to is, worked to work, prided to pride, cooperated to cooperate, felt to feel, and had to have.
You receive a bachelors degree by graduating from a university