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Is 'whilst stood in a cable car' correct grammar or should it be 'whilst standing in a cable car'?

Anton
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Robert Dodds
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    See https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/6/when-did-while-and-whilst-become-interchangeable and https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/18609/is-i-am-sat-bad-english?noredirect=1&lq=1 – Kate Bunting Mar 01 '21 at 10:57
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    Does this answer your question? Using 'sat' and 'stood' as adjectives – Greybeard Mar 01 '21 at 11:20
  • "Stood" as well as "standing" is a verb. They are both non-finite clauses functioning as complements of the prep "whilst". The PPs are probably functioning as supplementary adjuncts in some larger construction. Semantically, there is little real difference between the two. – BillJ Mar 01 '21 at 12:37
  • Don't bother using whilst. It's rare and dialectal at best; there's no reason for a superlative suffix on while. – John Lawler Mar 01 '21 at 23:20

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