during walking?

[jennie77]

Women who war high-heeled shoes can end up with deformed feet. High heels compress the toes and prevent them from functioning as shock absorbers during walking.

during
1. from the beginning to the end of a particular period
2. at some time between the beginning and the end of a period:

Regarding during, I thought noun which has certain duration like war, night etc should follow the preposition during.

But here in the sentence above, walking follow during.
Is it alright?
Google says there are lots of sentences which have 'while walking.'


Thank you in advnace.

[Bridget]

It's fine. It means "during the act of walking", and "walking" is an -ing form/gerund, there.

[Marius Hancu]

Yes, it's fine, but poor English in other respects:

>Regarding during, I thought noun which has certain duration like war, night etc should follow

Regarding "during," I thought (that) nouns which have a certain duration like "war," "night," etc should follow

Regarding "during," I thought (that) a noun which has certain duration like "war," "night," etc should follow

[OddThomas]

The sentence is a bit awkward, and I believe it could be rewritten to be more articulate.

Look at what happens, however, if the writer had used while instead of during:High heels compress the toes and prevent them from functioning as shock absorbers while walking.
Now, while walking becomes a dangling modifier describing toes, suggesting that women's toes are walking. I suspect the writer or the copy editor caught that error and corrected it by substituting during for while.