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Well if you look at the sentence, it uses the words "was" and "finally", meaning that it has already happened. was=future tense, finally=future tense, and "has started" does not make sense in the sentence anyway. this explanation doesn't make sense and i struggle with the writing section as well so i don't know what i'm talking about. I think it has to do with tenses though, it's confusing.
It has to do with parallelism (although this really isn't a valid question as it is certainly arguable that the sentence is correct as is). You can say that "it has ended, but something else has started" or "it ended, but something else started." However, you cannot say "it ended, but something has started." I wouldn't consider that an error, though.
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