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Originally Posted by navi tasan Thanks everybody.
As for your version Ron, I'd say that is indeed the best, clearest and most common version, but as usual I am looking about for the roundabout way of saying things.
We say: "an approaching train", but could we say "a train approaching"? One would think we are talking about "the train's approaching".
The approaching train or the train approaching? It seems that the approaching train is more acceptable in the US than in the UK. |
One could say "the train approaching", but it would be more common to do that if the participle had an object or modifier.
He was startled by the train approaching. (marginal)
He was startled by the train approaching the platform. (better)