Participles as adjectives

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HelloPlease Confirm/Help me in understanding the following about Participles As Adjectives.1. Noun adjunct VS present participle "in case of words which act as both noun and verb, we have to use noun adj. not participle" eg. work experience not working experience, correct? and for words (strictly verbs) we have to use participles eg. tiring journey (since tire cannot act as noun adj.) which is correct - Design expert or designing expert.( i think noun adj. is correct here (design expert) right?2.  Even though work is an adjective why adding adverb/determiner is not sounding correct.3.  Compound Words with Gerund and Noun (Eg. Dancing bird/ working professional) VS Participle (Tiring Journey), what is the difference. how to spot the difference? one way to check is by adding adverbs. right?

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

anonymouseg. work experience not working experience,

The expression is a neologism; neither used before about 1920. Before it was simply "experience." You can check in Google ngram viewer to determine which phrase is more commonly used.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=work+experience%2Cworking+experience&year_start=1920&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cwork%20experience%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cworking%20experience%3B%2Cc0

anonymousDesign expert or designing expert.

Dancing bird = a bird that is dancing.
working professional = a professional who is not retired (i.e. still working)

designing expert = an expert (in something) who is designing.

design expert = an expert in the field of (graphic / website / clothing) design

CalifJim · Answer

anonymous~~which is correct - Design expert or designing expert.~~
Which is correct — "design expert" or "designing expert"?

design expert

anonymous2. Even though work is an adjective why adding adverb/determiner is not sounding correct.

Your question is unclear. "work" is a noun, not an adjective. Adding a determiner sounds perfectly correct: "the work", "this work", "my work".

anonymous3. Compound Words with Gerund and Noun (Eg. Dancing bird/ working professional) VS Participle (Tiring Journey), what is the difference. how to spot the difference? one way to check is by adding adverbs.

I don't see "dancing bird" or "working professional" as gerund-noun combinations. As far as I can see, the -ing word in each case is a participle modifying the following noun. I agree that "tiring journey" is a participle-noun combination, but I don't see what contrast our attention is being drawn to in this text. It's true that "very dancing" and "very working" are not used, and "very tiring" is, but those factoids don't seem very important for learning English. Whatever distinction there is is probably best discussed in our linguistics forum.

CJ

Anonymous · Answer

The reason why I'm getting in such details is because i dont understand why passing marks/ working experience etc... are wrong, these are also participles+noun Combination?

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