"Pecking of" or "Pecking on"

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Good evening, I am in the midst of completing a poem and wrote the following line:
"The Owl halts its pecking of sweet-fruit"
My question is: would it be correct to say "its pecking of sweet-fruit" or "its pecking on sweet-fruit" etc.
I am just subtly confused on what word you would correctly and most harmoniously use.

Vance · Answer

First of all, do you mean it’s or its? Seems that you are referring to pecking being done by the owl so the possessive pronoun “its” is what you want, no?

In regard to the pecking, it should be either “pecking on” or “pecking at” in this context. If necessary you could even say, “... pecking sweet fruit.”

"Pecking of" or "Pecking on"

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