avigutman wrote:
avigutman wrote:
1) Your unfettering access to the beach is guaranteed
2) Your unfettered access to the beach is guaranteed.
3) This unrestricting drivers licence is hard to get.
4) This unrestricted drivers licence is hard to get.
jabhatta2 wrote:
Hi
avigutman - Starting with drivers licenses first.
Between 3 and 4 - both make sense in different contexts 3) Here the drivers license specifically is giving you access to restricted areas (Say a bank safe) - the drivers license is performing an action (i.e. action as in giving you acess to the bank safe)
4) Here the drivers license has action done upon it. So this most likely is referring to a **type** of drivers license
Between 1 and 2 - first does not make sense whereas the 2nd i think is okay.
1) I don't think the present participle makes sense.
Access by itself cannot be performing the action of "unrestricting"
2) I think this makes sense. Because
"Access" has had action done upon it. [the action of being unrestricted is forced upon the subject "Access"]
jabhatta2 perfect analysis!! Now, can you apply the same thinking to the original phrase, and to your example about Obama and Biden?
Hi
avigutmanA) The three women, have consistently received labor’s unqualifying support
B) The three women, have consistently received the unqualified support of labor
C) Obama's
unqualifying support towards Biden is clear
A) I think in sentence A - my mistake was thinking
"labor" was the subject and thus the performer of the "unqualifying". Actually the subject is
Support. It's as if the
Support somehow is performing the action of "Unqualifying" which does not make logical sense.
B) I think
unqualified support indicates action is being done on
support. It's referring to a "Type" of support which makes more sense.
C) Sentence C like sentence A, I think this may not be right because "Obama" is not the subject of
unqualifying. It's
support that is the subject and
support cannot be performing the act of
unqualifying.
I think you have to use "Unqualifying" in the past participle (indicating a type of Support) and not in the present participle because you cannot say
i) Unqualifying Obama = does not make sense
ii) Unqualifying support of Obama = does not make sense as "Support" cannot be peforming the action of "Unqualifying"
iii) Unqualified support of Obama = i think makes sense as its a type of "support"