The phrase "assignment began" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate the start of a specific task or project, often in a formal or academic context.
Example: "The assignment began on Monday, and students were given two weeks to complete it."
Alternatives: "the task started" or "the project commenced".
He met with the next region head to clarify performance expectations before the assignment began.
Likewise, the same measures fell among spouses in the intervention condition during the first year of the study, before the additional writing assignment began.
"The bug at the bottom of the Calendar front in today's Los Angeles Times says columnist Patrick Goldstein is on assignment," began a July 24 item on the Web site L.A. Observed.
Each new assignment began and ended.
Cumulative incidence curves by treatment assignment began separating 10 years after DCCT randomization (Fig. 1).
The two-year assignment begins this summer.
Bayliss, whose first assignment begins against his native country in the first Ashes Test in Cardiff on July 8, said: "It's an honour to be appointed England coach.
The Bluefield Orioles, the organization's rookie league affiliate in Bluefield, W.Va., and a draftee's presumed first assignment, begin their season on June 24.
Therefore, a one-time $500 fee is charged to the assigning department for each new out-of-state employee on payroll, to be assessed when the assignment begins.
One of MacArthur's first priorities was drafting a constitution for postwar Japan, a top-secret assignment, begun in February 1946, that had to be finished in just seven days.
Neukom accepted the assignment, beginning an improbable journey in which he became enormously wealthy, fought a 15-year battle with the federal government over Microsoft's business practices and eventually ascended to the top of the Giants' front office.
