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| Dec 13, 2018 at 17:45 | comment | added | Lambie | Not every past participle can be used adjectivally in the manner you are suggesting. Also, "I am told you are good at English" does not mean we say you are a "told person". However, a story was told about you yesterday. The told story was a lie. But that's pushing the use of told. | |
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| Sep 23, 2016 at 19:06 | comment | added | Alan Carmack | Sometimes it is impossible to tell just by looking at a sentence. Example: 'The window is broken'. Without context, we don't know if this is a passive form or the use of an adjective. That is why analysing a sentence on its own, with no context or discourse or speaker's intention can be futile. Although as FF has said, some adjectives are rarely used before the noun they modify. | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 17:45 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Idiomatically, I am told isn't a valid standalone statement, so neither is I am a told man. Prepositive invited is a relatively unusual usage - you might encounter something like We'll only give free drinks to the invited guests, but your example usage would be extremely unlikely in any context I can think of. Some combination of those two factors seems to apply to your third example, where again prepositioned adjectival use of a past participle doesn't work. | |
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