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Order of participial adjective
I'm proof-reading a thesis by one of my friends and there's some recurring construct which I always mark as false but I'd like to check with you.
In the comments I was told that the example I ...
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When can the -ing form of a verb be placed before a noun?
My native-speaker's grammatical intuition tells me that:
There is a sleeping man under the tree.
is fine but
There is a fishing man by the river bank.
is wrong. Why?
I've thought about ...
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“otherwise directed” vs. “directed otherwise”?
I've seen conflicting usage of the two phrases below, and I wonder which is grammatically correct and why:
Do something unless directed otherwise.
Do something unless otherwise directed.
