My feeling is that 'together' in (a) means at the same time. So if the same man does all of those things but not at the same time, the sentence won't work.
Is that correct?
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Yes, that seems the likely interpretation. Not necessarily literally simultaneously though.
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Yes, that seems the likely interpretation.
Not necessarily literally simultaneously though.
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