V-ed Noun or Noun V-ed

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There aren't many houses destroyed in the explosion.There aren't many destroyed houses in the explosion.Could any one help to tell me the differences between these two?Thank you in advance.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

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There aren't many houses destroyed in the explosion.
There aren't many destroyed houses in the explosion.
Could any one help to tell me the differences between these two?
Thank you in advance.

I would assume that the explosion already occurred before you say this, so the present tense doesn't make sense.

What you really need is this:

Not many houses were destroyed in the explosion.

There weren't many houses destroyed also uses the verb destroy.
There weren't many destroyed houses uses the descriptive adjective destroyed.

In the given context the second one doesn't make much sense. It seems to say that the explosion did not destroy many houses that were already destroyed before the explosion.

CJ

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