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I know a compound adjective can consist of a noun and a participle. But, sometimes the meanings of compound adjectives confuse me. What's the difference of noun with present participle and noun with past participle? How to use them?
Eg:Data-transferred hard drive, Data-transferring hard drive
If you use a present participle, as a part of the complex adjective, it means you want to describe that this word is referring to the process, a subject of the sentence is a part of.
Here is an example.
This drive is involving into the data-transferring process.
Using a past participle implies that the subject (or the object) of the sentence is rather the result of the previous action.
Here is another example.
This process depends on several newly-transferred parameters.
