Expression: 'A lion caught in a net'

[Tom]

Hi

Could you please tell me if you find the following sentence correct and natural?

1- 'A lion caught in a net.'

Tom

PS: Does it mean the same as "A lion got caught in a net"?

[Jamie (K)]

It's natural and very common. "A lion caught in a net" means "a lion that has been caught in a net". We can eliminate "that has been" and just use the participle and the prepositional phrase to describe the lion.

[Tom]

Thanks, Jamie

I would just like to make sure that I was able to get my point across correctly.

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[Conchita]

[Diverhank]

[Prezbucky]

Yeah, it is not a sentence -- "lion caught in a net that the hunter laid two days ago" is the subject (a very long subject, yes, but a subject nonetheless). This is a fragment. This requires a predicate for it to become a sentence.
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[Mister Micawber]

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Catching as in 'My comb caught in my tangled hair' does not seem to work with large animate objects-- that's all I can surmise.
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