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Is it appropriate to use a participle as I did it in the sentence below?

  • We often come across some resources published using a foreign language.

I suppose that if we used "which (or that) are", it would be grammatically correct.

  • We often come across some resources which (that) are published using a foreign language.
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  • Yet, I believe that the second option sounds weird and a bit wordy.
    – Maxyeet
    Commented Jan 28, 2021 at 17:19
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    We often find resources published in foreign languages is much shorter and imho much more "natural".
    – FumbleFingers
    Commented Jan 28, 2021 at 17:26
  • I agree. Is it grammatically correct? If so, then thank you a lot - you've answered my question.
    – Maxyeet
    Commented Jan 28, 2021 at 17:45
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    I'm not sure exactly what you're asking about here. If you're just wondering whether it's "grammatically correct" to not include which / that are before the main verb (published), the answer is Yes - it's entirely optional. See earlier question Is 'that' optional after linking verb?
    – FumbleFingers
    Commented Jan 28, 2021 at 17:51
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    I cannot say it does. There was a question about omitting "that", but I was wondering only about a participle - I was not sure whether I can treat them as I did in those sentences. Now I know, thank you and yxtao who has also answered my question.
    – Maxyeet
    Commented Jan 29, 2021 at 22:24

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  1. Both sentences have the same meaning.
  2. The structure of them are different.The first sentence has a participle to modify the noun; the second sentence has relative clause.
  3. The first one is more concise than the second one.

A participle is a form of a verb that is used in a sentence to modify a noun, noun phrase, verb, or verb phrase, and then plays a role similar to an adjective or adverb. It is one of the types of nonfinite verb forms. source: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/styleguide/chapter/participles/

A relative pronoun is a pronoun that introduces a relative clause. It is called a "relative" pronoun because it "relates" to the word that its relative clause modifies. source: https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/pronouns-relative.htm

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