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先生の言ったとおりにやってください or 先生が言ったとおりにやってください

I'm trying to say "Please do as the teacher said"

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In relative clauses, が and の are mostly interchangeable. These two sentences are equally correct, and sound almost identical to me.

See: How does the の work in 「日本人の知らない日本語」?

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  • am I still allowed to use が in 本のとおりに炊いた [cook by the book] ?
    – MatsuzakaSteven
    Jun 21, 2017 at 6:36
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    @user22630 No, that の is not the subject marker. It's the particle that connects two nouns, and such の is not interchangeable with が (except in rare situations related to archaic Japanese).
    – naruto
    Jun 21, 2017 at 6:45

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