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Do I need to add "by" before "looking"? Could you also check the rest of the paragraph for mistakes.
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We walked quite a long way, looking(or by looking) at the moss around the trees and the tiny flowers at the bottom of the rocks. Sometimes he was bending down to pick up the dry mushrooms, the dry leaves and the horse chestnuts on the ground and putting them in his backpack. I knew that he was collecting them for his nature collection at home.
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We walked quite a long way, looking at the moss around the trees and the tiny flowers at the bottom of the rocks. Sometimes he bent down to pick up the dry mushrooms, the dry leaves and the horse chestnuts on the ground, putting them in his backpack. I knew that he was collecting them for his nature collection at home.
- We walked quite a long way, looking at the moss around the trees and the tiny flowers at the bottom of the rocks.
- Sometimes he bent down to pick up the dry mushrooms, the dry leaves and the horse chestnuts on the ground, putting them in his backpack.
- I knew that he was collecting them for his nature collection at home.
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We walked quite a long way, looking at the moss around the trees and the tiny flowers at the bottom of the rocks. Sometimes he bent down to pick up the dry mushrooms, the dry leaves and the horse chestnuts on the ground, putting them in his backpack. I knew that he was collecting them for his nature collection at home.
0queen18Do I need to add "by" before "looking"?
No. You don't want that. That would mean that looking at the moss and flowers was the method by which you walked a long way. I don't know of a case where one would have to look at moss and flowers to walk a long way.
The participle clause (looking ... rocks) is related to the preceding cl
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