I'm incredibly humbled by this to be acknowledged...

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"I'm incredibly humbled by this to be acknowledged at this magnitude for something that in truth I've never wanted credit for."

Is this sentence grammatically wrong?
There should be a noun clause after the word "by", which is not the case in the original sentence.

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"I'm incredibly humbled by this - to be acknowledged at this magnitude for something that, in truth, I've never wanted credit for."

It's grammatical enough as spoken, given that it appears to be a speech. It's not grammatical as you've written it.
I don't like 'magnitude'. "At this level" works.
 

It's grammatical enough as spoken.
It's not grammatical as you've written it.

I have some questions regarding your answer, where the use of "as" is quite confusing.

#1 It's grammatical enough as spoken.
If I write a sentence like this, it will be "it's grammatical enough when we speak it". But I know natives will not use such sentence. So here in your sentence, does "as" means "when", and is it a shortened sentence from "it's grammatical enough as it is spoken"?

#It's not grammatical as you've written it.
What does "as" mean here?
 
I take 'as spoken' to mean 'as it was spoken' and take 'as you've written it' to mean 'in the way you've written it'.
 
"By this" doesn't add anything to the sentence. I am humbled to be acknowledged...
 
If I write a sentence like this, it will be "it's grammatical enough when we speak it". But I know natives will not use such sentence.
This non-native would write 'It's grammatical to say it'.
 
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