[Grammar] Directly Reducing Relative Clause When There Is an Adjective

[vcolts]

Various sites state that a relative clause cannot be directly reduced when there is an adjective:

"The man who is angry is outside" cannot be "the man angry is outside." Instead it should be "the angry man is outside."

However, we see sentences like the below:

People angry about the latest political scandal are protesting outside.
Comments negative toward the candidate are being deleted without notice.

Q1. Are they grammatically/academically correct?

Q2. If so, is the rule about not being able to directly reduce a relative clause when there is an adjective only applies when there is ONLY an adjective by itself?

Thanks in advance.

 

[SlickVic9000]

(not a teacher)

Both sentences are correct, however, I'd only use the first sentence if I needed to make
it explicitly clear who I was talking about.

 

[Barb_D]

I find "comments negative toward the candidate" to be pretty awkward.

 

[vcolts]

Okay so we are clear on the no reducing rule, meaning it only applies when there is only one adjective (or cannot stand when reduced).

Thanks everybody!