Hi
Could you please tell me if you find the following sentence correct and natural?
1- ‘A lion caught in a net.’
Tom
PS: Does it mean the same as “A lion got caught in a net”?
It’s natural and very common. “A lion caught in a net” means “a lion that has been caught in a net”. We can eliminate “that has been” and just use the participle and the prepositional phrase to describe the lion.
Thanks, Jamie
I would just like to make sure that I was able to get my point across correctly.
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, I meant a complete sentence not a phrase. For example,
No lion caught in a net that the hunter laid two days ago.
Can we use catch this way? Or “got caught”?
Tom
Well, the verb ‘catch’ is sometimes used in a similar way. For example in the sense of ‘get stuck’, like when something catches in a zip. A heel can also catch something (or somewhere), for example.
I’m not sure a lion can catch somewhere, though – maybe in the sense of ‘become entangled’ (it seems plausible enough with a net)?
Of course, the meaning would be different from that of ‘got caught’.
In my opinion, the above sentence is not grammatically correct…I think you can call it a “hung sentence” but then sometimes grammar be darned! :). I find that writings in novels sometimes are not correct but they sound good…
Yeah, it is not a sentence – “lion caught in a net that the hunter laid two days ago” is the subject (a very long subject, yes, but a subject nonetheless). This is a fragment. This requires a predicate for it to become a sentence.
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Catching as in ‘My comb caught in my tangled hair’ does not seem to work with large animate objects-- that’s all I can surmise.
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