One more sentence to follow up on diventata. In Tatoeba the same sentence has diventato. How would I convey the difference between the two in English? Does the original need a context to explain diventata?
Uhm, don’t like the it’d! - “it would” much better.
My modest input here : Pensavo che (la gara) sarebbe diventata più facile. Pensavo che (il lavoro) sarebbe diventato più facile. So context would seem to be helpful here.