Adjective question
Adjective question
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In technical document I used a term "semi-conductive film". Most of my colleagues argue that I should have used a term "semi-conducting film". Any opinions on what is correct?
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RE: Adjective question
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RE: Adjective question
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RE: Adjective question
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A verb pure and simple, same action sense as swimming, hunting, talking. No difference.
There is another term for this though, and it escapes me presently. I', thinking "gerund" here, ... Have to look it up.
However, being a verb or verb form, it cannot modify or describe a noun, which the word "film" is. Only an adjective can. Hence, I go with "conductive". Same form as the adjectives agressive, passive, reactive, etc.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/01/
Looks like conducting is a gerund form and can be used correctly in that sense.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Participle.
Participles are essentially adjectives, but they take the same form as progressive verbs.
They can modify nouns just fine. ("festering wound")
A gerund is like a participle but it's a noun instead of an adjective. Still takes the same form as a progressive verb.
("the awakening")
"Conductive" is an adjective. "Conducting" is a participle doing duty as an adjective.
You could make the argument (as stevenal does) that "conducting" only works if it is conducting right at that very moment but there are plenty of examples of "-ing" used to mean what something can do, not what it is doing right then. (A self-cleaning oven is still a self-cleaning oven even when the self-clean cycle is not running.) One could argue that when participles do that, they have frozen into adjectives and are no longer true participles, but there ya go, "conducting" could be either participle or true adjective evolved from participle. It all depends on what people mean when they use it. There isn't an official list out there of participles that have become true adjectives; it's a case of "English is as she is spoke".
So it comes down to usage convention. Whatever term more people use is more appropriate.
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RE: Adjective question
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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I was behind a slow-moving vehicle. In this case slow is modifying moving so the hyphen is appropriate.
"It was a vibrant red image." Contrast that to, "It was a vibrant-red image." The former conveys that the image was both vibrant and red. The latter conveys that the red used for the image was vibrant.
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