Turn NOUNS & VERBS into ADJECTIVES!

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English with Ronnie


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Hi. My name's Ronnie. I'm going to teach you a little secret. It's not really a secret,
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but it's something that's kind of interesting and really helpful when you're studying grammar,
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and more importantly, speaking English. It's more magic than a secret. It's a crazy little
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magic that I'd like to teach you. I'm going to do some magic tricks.
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The magic trick is how to make a noun and/or a verb into an adjective. So, how we make
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adjectives, or how adjectives are born. Ah, the birth of an adjective. So, I'm going to
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go through some examples sentences that have a noun. We're going to change the noun-dunh,
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dunh, dunh, dunh-and going to use the sentence as a verb, and then magically, we're going
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to change this into an adjective. Are you ready? Are you excited? Not real-... Not real...?
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Not really? Come on, it's magic. I'm telling you, it'll be... Okay, yeah, let's go.
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So, if you look at my first sentence, okay? "There is a tear in my paper." So, "shwi",
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my paper. [Fake cries] "There's a tear in my paper." We're going to know that this word
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is a noun with some very simple tricks. Because we have the word "a", a's an article, so:
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"There is a tear in my paper." We know that this is a noun.
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The next one: "There is a stain on my pants." What were you doing? And the se-...
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Or the next one: "There are holes in my jeans." Now, we have to change this, because "holes"
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are plural, we have to use "are". We can't say: "There is a holes." because "a" is only
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for singular. But when we have plural, for example, "holes" or "pieces", we have to use
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"are" because "are" is plural. Let's just write that down here.
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So: "There are holes in my jeans." And, uh oh: "There are pieces"-again, this is plural-"missing
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from my teeth". True story. I have pieces missing from my teeth. It's a long story.
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I'm not going to get into it when we're doing the magic.
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So, what we're going to do is we're going to take our sentence, we're going to take
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our noun-do, do, do, do-and we're going to change it into a verb. The way that we do
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this is we're going to change the noun into actually the past tense of the verb. For example:
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"There is a tear in my paper." The verb is "tear" or "tore". So: "I tore my paper."
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Next one: "There is a stain on my pants." What we're going to do is we're going to take
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the word "stain" and make it past tense. We're going to say: "I stained my pants." Just curious
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as to how you stained your pants, but that's fine.
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"There are holes in my jeans." Now, we can't say: "I holeded my jeans", because "holes"
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we cannot change into a verb. We're going to use the verb "ripped", so you can say:
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"I ripped my jeans." Rip.
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And: "There are pieces missing from my teeth." We can't say: "There are pieceded", but we
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can say: "I chipped my teeth." So, "chipped" means there's a piece missing.
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So what we've done, very simply, is we've taken our noun, and we've used it as a verb.
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This is where the magic happens. This is where the adjective happens. To make a verb into
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an adjective, we're going to use what's called the past participle, or as I like to say,
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the PP of the verb. So, we have the infinitive or the base form, we have the past form, and
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then the third form or the past participle (the PP) of the verb. So all we're going to
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do is we're going to change the verb "tore" to "torn".
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So we're going to say: "My paper is torn."
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We know that this is an adjective because we used the verb "to be".
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Next one: "I stained my pants." The adjective of "stained", because it's an "ed" verb is
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going to stay the same. We're going to say: "My pants are stained."
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Next one, uh oh: "I ripped my jeans." We're going to say: "My jeans are ripped."
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And last one, uh oh: "I chipped my teeth."
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You're going to say instead: "My teeth are chipped."
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The magic happens when we take the verb, and we change it into the past participle. This
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is how we make a lot of adjectives in English. You take a verb, you change it to the past
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participle. It's difficult to remember all of the past participles, but there are ones
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that we normally use more than others, and especially when describing things.
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Another example would be: "I broke my arm." Oh no! So "broke" is the past tense of "break".
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"I broke my arm." To make it an adjective, do you know the past participle of "break"?
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Break, bro... Broken! Broken. So, you're going to say: "My arm is broken."
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And all we've done, here, is we've changed the verb into-dunh, dunh, dunh-dunh-an adjective.
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And that's the end of the magic show.
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Enjoy your grammar.
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