Dangling Participle and Gerund

" Inspiring, informing and celebrating teachers since 1988". Is this sentence right? I'm confuse whether all -ing verbs in this sentence act as a gerund as a noun or a present participial as an adjective. Gerund as a noun needs a verb while present participle as an adjective needs a subject, right?

I hope someone could help me verify and explain that sentence above. Thank you.

Solution 1:

I would say it's ambiguous. The problem is that we're not dealing with a full sentence, but rather with a fragment of one. Such fragments are common for slogans, bumper stickers, etc., but can't be used as context for assigning parts of speech because there are different ways of using it in a full sentence.

Example 1:

"We have a history of inspiring, informing and celebrating teachers since 1988."

Example 2:

"Our organization has been inspiring, informing and celebrating teachers since 1988."

The words would be considered gerunds in the first example, but present participles in the second.