http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3614.32638)http://www.englishforums.com/English/CorrectWordUsage/wjmm/post.htm#331872Sun, 24 May 2009 04:00:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:331872Grammar Geek0http://www.englishforums.com/English/CorrectWordUsage/wjmm/post.htm#331872http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-331872.xml"No smoking buiding" is weird. You do see it, but these days, you are more likely to see "Smoke-free facilitiy" or a "non-smoking building" which does NOT mean that the building itself doesn't smoke, but that people are not allowed to smoke in the building. If you set it there, it is sitting. Just like if you lay it there, it is lying.http://www.englishforums.com/English/CorrectWordUsage/wjmm/post.htm#331848Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:00:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:331848Anonymous1http://www.englishforums.com/English/CorrectWordUsage/wjmm/post.htm#331848http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-331848.xmlNo smoking building. If you set the book on top of the television is it sitting there or setting there?http://www.englishforums.com/English/CorrectWordUsage/wjmm/post.htm#42149Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:00:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:42149Mister Micawber2http://www.englishforums.com/English/CorrectWordUsage/wjmm/post.htm#42149http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-42149.xmlYipes, I don't think the concept has been around long enough to settle on a term. Also springing to mind are: This is a No-Smoking building. This is a Smoke-Free building. To me, your first ('a non-smoking building') made me think of the building itself as off the weed, and it gave me a chuckle when I read it. Having written the above, a belated googling brings up: 'no-smoking building' 'no smoking building' 'No-Smoking building' and 'No Smoking building' in roughly equal proportions. Interesting question.http://www.englishforums.com/English/CorrectWordUsage/wjmm/post.htmSat, 24 Jan 2009 05:00:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:42121Guest3http://www.englishforums.com/English/CorrectWordUsage/wjmm/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-42121.xmlThis is a non-smoking building. This is a no smoking building. Are both correct? Is one preferred usage?