Compound Predicate with two Prepositional Phrases / Preposition Deletion

Question

My intention is to say that:

(A) I will be traveling on Mon & Tue. I will be eating on Mon & Tue.

Is this a correct paraphrase -?->

(B) I will be traveling and eating on Mon and Tue.

Or does the sentence (B) instead mean -?->

(C) I will be traveling. I will be eating on Mon & Tue.

Greybeard · Answer

B) I will be traveling and eating on Monday and Tuesday.

The construction that you want is:
On Monday and Tuesday, I will be traveling and eating.
A fronting adverbial is a free modifier and modifies the entire clause (or clauses where there is more than one equal clause.)

Compound Predicate with two Prepositional Phrases / Preposition Deletion

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