I hope that both forms shown below are correct.
What is the difference between them and which one seems more natural?
the initial and final element in the expression/clause
the initial and final element of the expression/clause
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Both the sentences are correct.
Separate is an adjective meaning forming or viewed as a unit apart or by itself; separated is the past participle of separate, which means cause to move or be apart.
Most of the people will consider those sentences synonyms.
[Reference: the New Oxford American Dictionary.]
According to Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary and Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, bobsled is used more often in North American English, bobsleigh is used more often in British English. There is no difference between them.
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Best Answer
The difference is very subtle and not at all important. Both sound natural.
If you want to slide a cigarette paper between them, of uses the metaphor of constituent parts, and in the metaphor of container of objects.
So you could distinguish them by how much you wish to imply that the expression/clause has fixed, organised, and inevitable internal structure.
For example, the "subject of the sentence": there is one of them, and it's exceptional for it not to be there, an inherent part of the structure of a sentence: it is a formal part.
But "the adjectives in the sentence", as they can be scattered to various points in a sentence of any complexity: they are contained within it.
There's a vast plain of middle ground (where your example seems to lie) where it seems to make very little difference.