[Grammar] dashed up and down the field, bellowing

[Oceanlike]

I read this example in https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bellow#examples

- The bull dashed up and down the field, bellowing so hard that smoke came out of his nostrils.

Can I use, "bellowed" instead of bellowing?

If not, why?

 

[emsr2d2]

If you simply replace "bellowing" with "bellowed", no. You will end up with a comma splice. You could say "... dashed up and down the field; he bellowed so hard ...". However, note that that changes the meaning. It sounds as if he bellowed after he finished running. The point of "bellowing" is to make it clear that the two activities were simultaneous - he was bellowing the whole time he was dashing up and down the field.

 

[tedmc]

Bellowing is part of a present participial phrase modifying the bull.

 

[Rover_KE]

Astrid Lindgren should more realistically have written 'steam' rather than 'smoke'.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Astrid Lindgren should more realistically have written 'steam' rather than 'smoke'.

Or droplets! Someone give that bull a mask!

 

[tzfujimino]

Or droplets! Someone give that bull a mask!

Here you are!