Let's look at your sentence: Show an albatross flying over the water or catching fish off the surface.
To make it clearer and grammatically correct, you can say:
- "Show an albatross flying over the water or catching fish from the surface."
- OR, slightly simpler: "Show an albatross flying over the water or catching fish on the surface."
Explanation:
- We use "from the surface" or "on the surface" instead of "off the surface" because the bird is catching fish that are near or on the water’s surface.
- "Off the surface" can sound confusing because "off" might mean away from the surface, which is not what you want to describe.
So, the improved sentence could be:
"Show an albatross flying over the water or catching fish from the surface."