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Ed and -ing
This document discusses participial adjectives ending in -ed and -ing. It explains that these words look like verbs but function as adjectives to describe nouns. It provides many examples of common -ed and -ing adjective pairs and explains that -ed adjectives describe how a person feels while -ing adjectives describe personality, places, events, or experiences. The document encourages practicing distinguishing between -ed and -ing forms through example sentences.
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Ed and -ing
- 1. Participial Adjectives Learn howto use -ed and –ing adjectives in English.
- 2. Participial Adjectives looklike verbs, but they are really adjectives. Their function is to describe nouns. English uses many pairs of –ed and –ing adjectives. You probably know some of these adjectives already. Let’s think about some Examples
- 3. Miguel didn’t sleepvery well last night. To make things worse, he had to get up early this morning because his boss asked him to come to work early. When he got up, he realized that he had run out of coffee. Poor Miguel. Today he feels . . . These are adjectives, even though they end with –ed. They describe how Miguel feels.
- 4. School is difficult,but Melissa enjoys it because she loves to learn. She especially loves her Science class because the teacher is very good. The teacher’s class is never boring; on the contrary it’s . . . These are adjectives, even though they end with –ing. They describe the class.
- 5. More examples of –edand –ing adjectives:
- 6. -ed -ing thrilled thrilling fascinated fascinating amazed amazing shocked shocking embarrassed embarrassing confused confusing frightenedfrightening depressed depressing amused amusing annoyed annoying distracted distracting
- 7. What’s the differencebetween the –ed and –ing form of adjectives? • -ed adjectives describe the way a person feels. • -ing adjectives describe someone’s personality, a place, an event, an experience, etc. *If something is __________ing, it will make you feel ________ed.
- 8. More examples .. . 1. Tom’s job is boring. He feels bored when he’s at work. Tom is bored because his job is boring. 2. Jane thinks that computers are interesting. She is interested in studying computers in the future.
- 9. 3. My friendwas feeling depressed, so I invited him to come out with us to see an amusing movie. I thought it might make him laugh a little. 4. Tripping in front of other people can be really embarrassing. I always feel embarrassed when this happens!
- 10. Now it’s yourturn! 1. confus- English grammar can be extremely ________________. It makes me feel ________________. 2. fascinat- Millions of tourists are __________________ with Balboa Park. This place is absolutely __________________.
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- 13. Was the littlegirl surprised or surprising? Was the party surprised or surprising?
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- 15. How does theman feel: exhausted or exhausting? Was the marathon exhausted or exhausting?
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- 17. Was the speechbored or boring? The people in the audience felt bored or boring?
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- 19. It’s annoyed orannoying when people talk loudly on their cell phones? I was annoyed or annoying when that guy was talking loudly on his cell phone?
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- 21. Was the womansatisfied or satisfying when she got her favorite meal? Was the meal satisfied or satisfying?
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- 23. The man feelsfrustrated or frustrating? His job can be frustrated or frustrating?
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- 25. The news wasshocked or shocking? The woman was shocked or shocking when she read the news?
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- 27. How does theboy feel? embarrassed or embarrassing? Is being scolded embarrassed or embarrassing?
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- 29. Is the studentinterested or interesting in learning? Is the class interested or interesting?
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- 31. Riding roller coastersis excited or exciting? Do the people on the roller coaster feel excited or exciting?
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- 33. It’s disappointed or disappointingto lose a race? The runners who didn’t win felt disappointed or disappointing?