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Can a present participle be used like present progressive adjectives to talk about general nouns? Is this sentence right?
People exercising everyday are healthy.
or do I need to use who+conjugated verb?
People who exercise everyday are healthy.
Can present participle be used only to talk about specific things?
The boy eating the spaghetti is my brother.
People exercising everyday are healthy.
This implies that "people" are healthy while exercising everyday, but not necessarily when they stop exercising.
People who exercise everyday are healthy.
This is more idiomatic. But "everyday" is an adjective/adverb, whereas you really want a noun as the object of "exercise". So it should be:
People who exercise every day are healthy.
Almost. Exercising every day does not, in the real world, guarantee health. About all one can really say is:
People who exercise every day are healthier [than those who don't].
(And that comes with a few caveats.)
I think "People who exercise every day are healthy." is the correct wording.
Also, note that it's "every day", not "everyday."
