Was ist der Unterschied zwischen boiling water und water boiling ?Du kannst auch einfach Beispielsätze geben.

a swimming man vs a man swimming
a sleeping dog vs a dog sleeping
a smoking gun vs a gun smoking
a closed door vs a door closed

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KyleH

19 Aug 2019

Englisch (US)

Honestly if there’s no real difference between any of these. Sometime you can put the verb/adjective before the noun or vice versa.

When you take a look at these there are certain ones where it doesn’t apply as much.

For instance a smoking gun would be a common way to describe this type of thing, whereas a gun smoking would be a unnatural and unusual was to say this.

Although a swimming man versus a man swimming and a sleeping dog versus a dog sleeping is completely natural both ways.

Maybe this will help you, all of your examples on the left are natural whereas only some of the examples on the right are more unnatural.

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HideHide730

20 Aug 2019

Japanisch

Thanks for the prompt reply. I found similar question and answer at https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/326...
What do you think about the explanation in the page?
Moreover, a closed door means "a door that have not closed for a while or cannot be closed"? And a door closed means just a door which is currently closed?
Plus, regarding a gun smoking", if you tell someone, seeing some gun smoking, we cannot say "Look at the gun smoking"? Or still we should say "Look at the smoking gun"?