<p>Because traffic was unusually heavy, Jim arrived ten minutes late for his job interview even though he had ran desperately all the way from the bus stop.
The answer is ran desperately..</p>
<p>To insist that a poem means whatever one wants it to mean is often ignoring the intention and even the words of the poet.
The answer is ignoring... is it suppose to be to ignore?</p>
<p>no, if it's ignore; it'd be (to ignore)</p>
<p>i think the first one is "ran desperately" because of parallelism (arrived)</p>
<p>I think the first one is "ran desperately"</p>
<p>and the second one seems fine to me...</p>
<p>its "ran desperately" because it should be "had run desperately"</p>
<p>The second is wrong because "to insist" and "to ignore" have to be parallel. The first is wrong because running from the bus stop and arriving late for the interview are two events that both happened in the past, so for the event that happened earlier in the past, the past perfect tense must be used (had run, not had ran, since ran is past tense and not past perfect)</p>