I made this thread to ask a question from the same person. I thought we’d share it. I hope it’s more helpful. What is your guess? We can use the -ing form in front of a noun when the action is something that doesn’t involve another object. How do people sleep? What does dancing girl mean? Who are the greatest forces outside of our body? Is ‘-ing’ a verbal form when you are performing an action on another object? A fishing man – fishing will require a fishing pole. A punching man – the man will need to punch something

if not his own shirt.

In script of normal English in which “invokes” precede nouns of a long noun, one phrases followed the noun.

When I are acting as adjective, not as a non-finite verb, I put that before the noun I modifies. So I just mean the -ing word too! If a verbal phrase modifies a noun and is part of a verbal long sentence you can’t use after it also modifies the part without the verbal ending. Can no verbal length be preceded?

Sometimes the -ing word is actually a noun: a writing desk is a desk for writing, not a desk that happens to be writing. But it is still modifying desk? In practice, an important noun is to be verbal while performing the part first in the letter leading to “B “.

The acting director, barking mad, bleeding heart, bowling alley, burning bush, burrowing owl, carrying capacity, changing room, chattering classes, closing credits, coloring book, cooking oil, creeping thyme, dictating machine, drawing board, drilling rig, eating disorder, fighting drunk, firing squad, flying fish, flying buttress, flying fox, flying

In your case, you could have put sleeping afterwards, and had a man sleeping under the tree, but sleeping men like sleeping dogs are not particularly unusual.

However, you would not normally speak of fishing men, so you would have a man fishing for something down the river bank. If you strained it, you could build up a context in which fishing men might contrast with farming men or some such, but it would be abnormal.

If you find a singing man singing in the rain, you might find a singing man for the rain, but you will never find a singing-in-the-rain man. What that means is there a world of difference between having a fucking idiot in the livingroom and having an idiot fucking in the livingroom. Or to put

it more crudely, there is a world of difference between having a fucking idiot in your livingroom.

I would like to support Bill Gates’s comments on fishing man. Bill is absolutely right. It is not likely to be often found but the Corpus of Contemporary American English has this one record from ‘Stern Men’ by Elizabeth Gilbert, published in 2000.

They were famous lobstermen, superior to every fishing man.

Why do adjectives end with ‘-ing’ before nouns? What are counter examples?

What is the point of reading this blog?

Is it because’sleeping man’ may be regarded as state of being for the man, but not ‘fishing man’?

What do you guys think is the best way to start your day?

In your second addendum you said:

Where do you indicate the fishing area? It does not mean a men who fishes. For Fig.1., in the above case… this would be taken care of by case 1. In the intended meaning, a man is fishing.

What is your problem? What is the solution where possible?

Are there any two possible meanings related to fishing on a river bank?

1. There is a man sleeping under a tree.

Hence fishing man could either be derived from a verb or a noun.

So fisherman and fisherman both seems to make sense to me in my logical sense. But now I realize that fisherman is a two word word!

1. A man catching fish (a profession)
2. A man fishing fish (a hobbyist)

Now the second sounds decidedly odd, the final words: fishing fish is plausible but speakers will naturally avoid saying that.

He who catches fish with a passion and is also a fisherman have two words To differentiate the two men: angler and angling.

Is there a fisherman

at the river bank?

Why is It slanderable to say something is wrong?

Can water be used as a noun and noun in the word “fish”? In addition, fish is a concrete noun. What is an agent verb? How does a “driver” agent noun come from the verb “drive”? The endings “-er”, “-or” and “-ist” are commonly used in English to form agent nouns

• “There is a dancing man at a party = a man dancing or a dancer at a party.
• … a cooking man in the kitchen, sounds really odd = man cooking; Or a cook in the kitchen.
• If a man is cheating in the casino, he/she is a cheater at the casino or a cheater
• at the casino. So he/she is for being a cheating man. (Last night)What do cheaters do?
• A drunk man by the bar counter.
• … a gardening man near the tree.
• What is the milking man doing in the barn?
• … a painting man outside.
• … by the kiosk a telephoning man by the kiosk.
• All of the above sound “wrong” to me, perhaps

it also has something to do with these words being classed as deverbal Deverbal nouns are nouns which are derived from verbs

or verb phrases, but which behave grammatically purely as nouns, not as verbs

What does a person have to know about ph?

Is it because’sleeping man’ may be regarded as state of being for the man, but not ‘fishing man’?

What do you guys think is the best way to start your day?

In script of normal English in which “invokes” precede nouns of a long noun, one phrases followed the noun.

When I are acting as adjective, not as a non-finite verb, I put that before the noun I modifies. So I just mean the -ing word too! If a verbal phrase modifies a noun and is part of a verbal long sentence you can’t use after it also modifies the part without the verbal ending. Can no verbal length be preceded?

Sometimes the -ing word is actually a noun: a writing desk is a desk for writing, not a desk that happens to be writing. But it is still modifying desk? In practice, an important noun is to be verbal while performing the part first in the letter leading to “B “.

The acting director, barking mad, bleeding heart, bowling alley, burning bush, burrowing owl, carrying capacity, changing room, chattering classes, closing credits, coloring book, cooking oil, creeping thyme, dictating machine, drawing board, drilling rig, eating disorder, fighting drunk, firing squad, flying fish, flying buttress, flying fox, flying

In your case, you could have put sleeping afterwards, and had a man sleeping under the tree, but sleeping men like sleeping dogs are not particularly unusual.

However, you would not normally speak of fishing men, so you would have a man fishing for something down the river bank. If you strained it, you could build up a context in which fishing men might contrast with farming men or some such, but it would be abnormal.

If you find a singing man singing in the rain, you might find a singing man for the rain, but you will never find a singing-in-the-rain man. What that means is there a world of difference between having a fucking idiot in the livingroom and having an idiot fucking in the livingroom. Or to put

it more crudely, there is a world of difference between having a fucking idiot in your livingroom.

In script of normal English in which “invokes” precede nouns of a long noun, one phrases followed the noun.

When I are acting as adjective, not as a non-finite verb, I put that before the noun I modifies. So I just mean the -ing word too! If a verbal phrase modifies a noun and is part of a verbal long sentence you can’t use after it also modifies the part without the verbal ending. Can no verbal length be preceded?

Sometimes the -ing word is actually a noun: a writing desk is a desk for writing, not a desk that happens to be writing. But it is still modifying desk? In practice, an important noun is to be verbal while performing the part first in the letter leading to “B “.

The acting director, barking mad, bleeding heart, bowling alley, burning bush, burrowing owl, carrying capacity, changing room, chattering classes, closing credits, coloring book, cooking oil, creeping thyme, dictating machine, drawing board, drilling rig, eating disorder, fighting drunk, firing squad, flying fish, flying buttress, flying fox, flying

In your case, you could have put sleeping afterwards, and had a man sleeping under the tree, but sleeping men like sleeping dogs are not particularly unusual.

However, you would not normally speak of fishing men, so you would have a man fishing for something down the river bank. If you strained it, you could build up a context in which fishing men might contrast with farming men or some such, but it would be abnormal.

If you find a singing man singing in the rain, you might find a singing man for the rain, but you will never find a singing-in-the-rain man. What that means is there a world of difference between having a fucking idiot in the livingroom and having an idiot fucking in the livingroom. Or to put

it more crudely, there is a world of difference between having a fucking idiot in your livingroom.

Is it because’sleeping man’ may be regarded as state of being for the man, but not ‘fishing man’?

What do you guys think is the best way to start your day?

I would like to support Bill Gates’s comments on fishing man. Bill is absolutely right. It is not likely to be often found but the Corpus of Contemporary American English has this one record from ‘Stern Men’ by Elizabeth Gilbert, published in 2000.

They were famous lobstermen, superior to every fishing man.

Why do adjectives end with ‘-ing’ before nouns? What are counter examples?

What is the point of reading this blog?