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a job cleaning cars

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 3:30 am

by paracompact

Participle clauses can be used after nouns and pronouns.

We can offer you a job cleaning cars.

[Swan: Practical English Usage, 3rd ed., 411.2]

Question: a job cleaning cars = a job that cleans cars ?

Re: a job cleaning cars

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 6:58 am

by Alan

No, rather a job that involves cleaning cars.

'Cleaning' here is a gerund rather than a participle.