Which is the correct form?
- I displayed financial skills by creating the firm's budget.
- I displayed financial skills creating the firm's budget.
Maybe "while" can work too?
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Maybe "while" can work too?
All there are correct, but subtly different.
I displayed financial skills by creating the firm's budget.
says by what method you displayed your financial skills
I displayed financial skills while creating the firm's budget.
says that displaying your financial skills was something that happened while your were creating the budget.
I displayed financial skills creating the firm's budget.
is somewhere in between the other sentences. It sounds somewhat incorrect to me, but I don't know of a grammar rule it violates.