Reduced adjective clause

[jupiter]

Hello Teachers,

Please look at this sentence.

The woman living next door is a nurse.

To my knowledge, the sentence can be reduced from both " the woman who lives next door is a nurse" and " the woman who is living next door is a nurse"

My question is " How do we know which original sentence is it reduced from?"

Thanks in advance

Jupiter

[Tom]

[Pamela]

You can rephrase this sentence having said "the
woman who lives next door is a nurse"

[Yankee]

Hi Jupiter

It's not possible to know with 100% certainty whether the original sentence contained "who is living next door" or "who lives next door".

But I think most people would assume that the woman is probably not living next door temporarily (e.g., not planning to live there for just a few weeks or months) and therefore most people would assume that your original sentence used the simple present tense.

Amy
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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English