[Idiom] simmering with rage

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Ashiuhto

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Is the following sentence acceptable?

While I was trying my best to restrain my fury and act as if nothing were on my mind, deep in my heart was simmering with rage.
 

billmcd

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Is the following sentence acceptable?

While I was trying my best to restrain my fury and act as if nothing were on my mind, deep in my heart was simmering with rage.

You need a subject for the last phrase so I would place "I" between heart and was.

 

Ashiuhto

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While I was trying my best to restrain my fury and act as if nothing were on my mind, deep in my heart I was simmering with rage.
 

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While I was trying my best to restrain my fury and act as if nothing were on my mind, deep in my heart I was simmering with rage.

That's right.
 
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