[Q]: How does the sentence end?

The fence that I put up did not cover the whole yard because the 

[A]: yard was too long.


[Q]: How does the sentence end?

The woman sewed the blanket better than a mitten because it was harder to sew the 

[A]: mitten .


[Q]: How does the sentence end?

Elena wrote a bad check to Natalie, so 

[A]:
Natalie had to receive another one to make up for it.