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A) Is this sentence grammatically correct?
B) Does walking, running, or driving modify Tom? If so how do you know if a prepositional phrase does indeed modify a specific noun? Is it safe to assume that it's always the subject that's being modified?
C) Are all three words [walking] [running] [driving] objects of the preposition by? And also is it correct to assume that all three words, in this case, are gerunds?
Over a period of three weeks, Tom can collect fishing gear such as the Deluxe Fishmonger 2000 and the Raytracer 3000 by walking, running, or driving to the store.
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A) Is this sentence grammatically correct? Yes B) Does walking, running, or driving modify Tom? No.
- A) Is this sentence grammatically correct?
- Yes B) Does walking, running, or driving modify Tom?
- No.
- All 3 words are gerunds, which are the noun-like form of verbs.
- They don't modify anything here.
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A) Is this sentence grammatically correct? Yes
B) Does walking, running, or driving modify Tom? No. All 3 words are gerunds, which are the noun-like form of verbs. They don't modify anything here. But when you use them with 'by' to form a phrase, the phrase in this case tells us how Tom can collect, ie the phrase is adverbial.
He can collect by walking,
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