Timeline for Difference between "He is a hard-working man" and "He is a man who works very hard"
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| Sep 22, 2021 at 18:49 | comment | added | roms | I'd agree, that stylistically the adjective-like phrase is a lot more common. It evokes a sense of an archetype of the thing. Phrases like "hard-working man" or "fast-driving" car really bring to mind a certain image of the thing being described. Whereas using a relative clause puts more emphasis on the subject (the man in this case), and its relationship to the description is less tightly coupled. When I hear "hard-working man" there's a picture in my mind of what/who that is that isn't there when I hear "a man who works very hard" even though the meaning is basically the same in each phrase. | |
| Nov 12, 2015 at 18:34 | history | answered | RebelTech | CC BY-SA 3.0 |