Patterns: Past Participle + Noun
In my understanding Past Participle + noun
means the action applied to the noun as follows:
- He
murdered
a little girl = The little girl wasmurdered
by him. Themurdered girl
is being investigated by polices. - He
copied
my file without my permission = My file wascopied
(by him) without my permission. Thecopied file
is very confidential.
Question
Does the copied file
refer to the original file? Or does it refer to the copy of the original file?
Based on my understanding above, the copied file
should refer to the original one. But it is not the case when I read the following quote
Subversion does not create an entire new file version in the repository with its copy. Instead, the old and new versions are linked together internally and the history is preserved for both. The
copied versions
take up only a little extra room in the repository because Subversion saves only the differences from the original versions.
where the copied version
represents the copy of the original one.