slouch or slouching?

[learning101]

Hi all,
Here is the sentence taken from www.nytimes.com"
He conducts a meeting slouched in a chair with his feet up on the coffee table."
I would like to know what it is written as slouched but not slouching"?
As I know we normally write
"He sits there waiting (gerund) for other to stream in." and
"she slouched back on a folding chair" instead of
"was slouched"

 

[emsr2d2]

Hi, all.

Here is [STRIKE]the[/STRIKE] a sentence taken from The New York Times.
"He conducts a meeting slouched in a chair with his feet up on the coffee table."

I would like to know [STRIKE]what[/STRIKE] why it is [STRIKE]written as[/STRIKE] "slouched", [STRIKE]but[/STRIKE] not slouching". As far I know, we normally write things like the following:

"He sits there waiting (gerund) for other to stream in no full stop here" and "She slouched back on a folding chair" instead of "was slouched".
Where did you get those two sentences from? The first is not grammatical.

"slouched" describes his position.

 

[mlryan]

Hi all,
Here is the sentence taken from www.nytimes.com"
He conducts a meeting slouched in a chair with his feet up on the coffee table."
I would like to know what it is written as slouched but not slouching"?
As I know we normally write
"He sits there waiting (gerund) for other to stream in." and
"she slouched back on a folding chair" instead of
"was slouched"

"He conducts a meeting slouched in a chair with his feet up on the coffee table."
"He conducts a meeting slouching in a chair with his feet up on the coffee table."
Both of these are perfect English; the difference is very subtle.
The first is someone reporting what he normally does.
The second is someone reporting what he is doing now.

 

[5jj]

The first is someone reporting what he normally does.
The second is someone reporting what he is doing now.

Not true, I'm afraid. Both refer to his normal way of conducting a meeting.

 

[jutfrank]

The past participle (-ed) form of the word gives the sense that the action is in a way completed, as opposed to being progressive, which the present participle form (-ing) would express. Another way to say this is that -ed words are in some sense passive and -ing words active.

 

[probus]

With respect, I disagree that the first sentence is ungrammatical. It parses perfectly in my opinion.

 

[emsr2d2]

To refer to a habitual action, I would expect it to start "He conducts meetings".

 

[learning101]

Can I say "slouched" in the sentence is an adjective. I can't relate if it's a completed action. I believe both "slouching" and "conducting meeting" are two actions happening at the same time yet it was not written in progressive and this is puzzling me. Neither do I think the sentence was written with passive in mind.