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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

"facing" or "faced"?

"Install the battery with the positive pole (+) facing down. "
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"Install the battery with the positive pole faced down."
Will someone teach me which sentence is correct? I googled the combination of "with" and "faced down (or up)" but it ended with no hit. On the other hand, I found some similar sentences using "with" and "facing down(or up either way)" in combination on google. I want to know which is correct, or both are correct. If only one of them is correct, I would like to know why. Is there a gramattical rule?
  

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Anonymous....... "Install the battery with the positive pole facing down. " Install the battery with the positive pole face down.

— Canadian45

  • Anonymous.......
  • "Install the battery with the positive pole facing down.
  • " Install the battery with the positive pole face down.
  • The second one is just not said.
  • Why not?
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Anonymous......."Install the battery with the positive pole facing down. " Emotion: yes
"Install the battery with
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Thank you for the explanation. It helped me a lot. Without knowing why, I picked "facing down", but my colleague who is also a non-native English speaker picked "faced down" because....according to her explanation, it's the same with "he was standing with his eyes closed" where the rule of "with + object + past participle" applies. I'm really not clear with the grammar, so I coul
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Again, native speakers don't say "Install the battery with the positive pole faced down." Whether I can give you a convincing grammatical reason for that remains to be seen.

".....picked "faced down" because....according to her explanation, it's the same as "he was standing
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Canadian 45, I can't thank you enough. Your explanation was all I needed. Again, thank you verrryyy much!
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