Bored or Boring? Learn about -ED and -ING adjectives in English

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Hi. Welcome to engVid. I'm Adam.
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In today's video I want to talk to you about a particular type of adjective
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that many people often confuse, especially beginners, but this is also good for intermediate, even advanced students.
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We're talking about the "ed" and the "ing" adjectives. Okay?
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So, for example: "bored" and "boring", "interested" and "interesting".
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Now, the reason it's important to know the difference between these is because what you
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say about yourself sometimes, how you describe things can be very confusing to a native speaker
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especially, but to other people as well if you mix these two up.
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Now, what does it mean to be bored and what does it mean to be boring?
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When we talk about "bored", we're describing a feeling.
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Okay?
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When we talk about "interested", we're describing a feeling.
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So all of the "ed" adjectives are actually feelings, and you can only use them to talk
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about people and sometimes animals.
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Why?
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Because things, like chairs, or tables, or whatever, they don't have feelings.
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A movie, a book doesn't have feelings.
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TV shows, for example, movies, books, whatever, they cause a feeling in a person.
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So the "ing" adjectives cause the feeling.
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The "ed" adjectives are the feeling.
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Okay? So very important.
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Only people and animals for the "ed", and for the "ing" you can use people, animals,
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things, situations, places, ideas, basically any noun because you're describing them.
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You're describing how they make people feel.
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So now you're wondering: "Well, I have people here and I have people here,
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so how can I use 'boring' for people and for...
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And 'bored' for people?"
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Sorry. So what we have here, again, feeling and cause of feeling.
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So if you say: "I'm bored" means that I'm not having fun, I want to go do something else.
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If I say: "I am boring" means you're not having fun and want to go do something else.
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So if I am boring means that you are bored.
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If the movie is boring, then I am bored. Okay?
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So one thing-the "ing"-causes the feeling-"ed"-in the person.
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Very important to understand that.
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So: "I am bored by the movie which is boring.
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I am interested in this lesson because this lesson is very interesting."
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Right?
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"I'm excited, something is exciting."
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So, for example, I'm excited to go see the concert because this artist is very exciting,
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this singer or whatever.
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"I am worried", now people don't realize that "worried" can have "worrying" as another adjective.
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"The situation is worrying" means the situation is making me feel worried.
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Okay? Maybe the whole global political situation, whatever.
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Now, hopefully none of you are confused by this lesson because I'm trying to make it
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not confusing.
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Okay? Everybody okay with that?
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So very important to understand all these nouns can use "ing" because they're creating
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the feeling, all these adjectives can only be used for people, again, sometimes animals.
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A dog sees...
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Sees you coming home after a long day, gets very excited.
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Its, you know, tail wagging in the back.
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Dogs don't usually get bored, they just go to sleep.
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So, animals sometimes.
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Now, I just want to point out one other thing: Don't confuse feeling adjectives with "ed"
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with actual feelings.
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Okay?
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If somebody is loved, does he feel loved?
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Maybe yes, maybe no.
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We're not talking about that person's feelings.
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"Hated", "envied", these are all feeling words, but these are all verbs.
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Okay?
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"He is loved" means somebody loves him or her.
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"She is loved.", "This person is hated."
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But we can also use these about things.
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Okay?
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"The company is hated."
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So some companies they do not such nice things or maybe they go to a poor country and use
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very cheap labour, so this company is hated.
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So people hate this company.
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So keep in mind that these are feeling words, but used as verbs; whereas these are other
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verbs used as adjectives.
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Okay? Very important to distinguish between these words.
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I hope this was clear enough.
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One more thing to say, there's a very long list of these kinds of adjectives, you can just Google them
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if you need to or you can even ask me in the forum at www.engvid.com.
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There's a place you can ask questions, feel free to ask me about other examples of these.
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But there's also a quiz at www.engvid.com where I'll give you more examples of these
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kinds of adjectives, and you can practice using them in sentences.
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Make sure you understand the context: "Is somebody feeling this?
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Is something causing this?" etc.
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Also, give me a like if you like this video, and don't forget to subscribe to my channel.
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And I'll see you again very soon for another good lesson.
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Hopefully an interesting lesson so you're interested and not confused.
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See you then.
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