Could you simplify the meaning of the 'ing' forms of the verbs?

CalifJim

Please don't put your question inside the material you're quoting. It's hard to know where the quote ends and your question begins.

roky0071Here in the above 'cleaning her','sticking bandages' and 'handing her a lollipop' these all happen at the same time for example you given in the above post 'Sniffing the ground' and 'following the scent of the rabbit' or happen once after another?

You have to take a little more initiative to solve some of these problems on your own. What do you think? How do you imagine it?

If you were tending to a little girl who had had an accident, would you clean her, put bandages on her and give her a lollipop at the same time, or would you do these things one after the other? Would it even be possible to do all of that at the same time?

CJ

No in this case, it is not possible to do all these things at the same time.

Now I have three questions from all the above discussions. That are as follows:

1. In which participle clause, the preposition 'By' is applicable

a. " Imagine a dog tracking a rabbit, ( by ) sniffing the ground and ( by ) following its scent''

b. ''You might handle your little sister's bicycle accident like a pro, ( by ) cleaning her up, ( by ) sticking bandages on her knees, and ( by ) handing her a lollipop.

c. The soldiers attacked the families, ( by ) doing the search operation.

2. The soldiers attacked the families, doing the search operation. I have done the simplification below. Please tell me I am correct or wrong.

'The soldiers attacked the families and at the same time they did the search operation.'

3. From the above disscussions, Can I say that 'Participle clause used for shortening the long sentence into short form without changing the meaning whether it is 'condition', 'result', 'reason', 'time' or 'events one after another, not at the same time'?