dondondonki0390

[lavish urchin]

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[dusky raven]

They aren't interchangeable.

1. We saw the old prison being demolished.
2. We saw the old demolished prison.

[versed forge]

so for the second sentence, démolie acts like an adjective?

[dusky raven]

yes

[versed forge]

is it a past participle?

[slender sparrow]

yes

but here it is an adjective

[versed forge]

so like present participle, past participle can also act as an adjective if placed after a noun?

[slender sparrow]

it works basically the same as english

past participles can be used as adjectives

la prison est demolie

it doesn’t have to be placed after a noun to be an adjective

compare the sentence in english “the prison is demolished” demolished is just the past participle of the verb demolish

[versed forge]

Hmm understood.