d.enjoying a picnic
The End of Something is a short story, by Ernest Hemingway it narrates the end of a relationship and the end of a way to make a living by the standar american: The mills, little towns would grow around mills or factories, instead of the factories being stablished in cities. With the break up of the couple, Hemingway portarys the split from the past.
Due to English punctuation eating is just an action where a drink is something like a soda and a action. A eat is not a meal or anything that can be consumed.
A. Somewhat.
This is a modifier that doesn't really affect the sentence.
By asking only the limits of something like There is limited Coca Cola