ADJECTIVES #3 | bored vs boring | -ed vs -ing Endings | Learn English Grammar

Hello guys and welcome to this English course on adjectives.

In this video, I will be talking to you about adjectives ending in ‘ed’ or ‘ing’.

These adjectives are very common in English and they often confuse students and learners

in general.

So please be really careful.

Listen very carefully.

Repeat after me.

Try and understand what the difference is.

Let's get started Adjectives ending in ‘ed’, describe a

person's feeling.

For example, ‘bored’.

‘I am bored.’

Adjectives ending in ‘ing’ describe a situation or an event.

For example, ‘boring’.

Let's take a sentence.

‘This film is boring.’

Ok that's the event.

It's boring.

And because the film is boring, I am bored.

That's my feeling.

I hope you get it.

Let's get a few more common examples.

For example, ‘annoyed’ and ‘annoying’.

‘He is annoyed’.

That's a feeling.

‘The noise is annoying’.

You're now describing the noise.

Other example, ‘confused’, ‘confusing’.

‘The student was confused’.

‘The English was confusing’.

‘depressed’ ‘depressing’

‘My mom was depressed’.

‘She watched a depressing TV drama’.

‘excited’ ‘exciting’

‘I'm excited.’

‘Travelling is exciting.’

‘frustrated’ ‘frustrating’

‘My dog is frustrated.’

‘Staying home all day is frustrating.’

‘frightened’ ‘frightening’

‘My little sister is frightened of the dark.’

‘A dark room is frightening.’

‘satisfied’ ‘satisfying’

‘My dad is satisfied.’

‘He has a satisfying job’.

‘shocked’ ‘shocking’

‘We were shocked by the accident.’

‘It was a shocking accident’.

‘interested’ ‘interesting’

‘I'm interested in articles.’

‘I'm reading an interesting article’.

Last example, two sentences, two different meanings.

Look at these: ‘The teacher was bored.’

‘The teacher was boring.’

Now you really have to understand the difference between those two

because the meaning is not the same at all.

When you say ‘the teacher was bored’, you are describing the teacher’s feeling.

Okay, that's how the teacher felt at that time.

He or she was bored.

But when you say ‘the teacher was boring’, you are describing the teacher.

Okay, the teacher made the students feel bored because he or she was boring.

Okay, so remember ‘ed’ is for feelings.

And ‘ing’ is to describe events, things, situations.

Okay let's move on to practice now.

I now have a few example sentences for you.

Let's have a look together.

‘Wow I am excited or exciting about my new car’

Now what’s the correct answer?

What do you think?

Now remember ‘ed’ to talk about feelings.

‘ing’ to describe things.

In this case, are you talking about your feelings or are you describing your new car.

Of course you are talking about your feelings.

So ‘Wow I'm excited about my new car.’

Second example: ‘Try not to get bored or boring when you

study English.’

Now what do you think are you talking about feelings are you describing things?

Of course, again, we're talking about feelings in this sentence.

‘Try not to get bored when you study English.’

Then, ‘Math is confused or confusing to me.’?

Do you know the answer?

You are describing math to you.

It is confusing to you.

So math is confusing to me.

‘It was a thrilled or thrilling rollercoaster ride.’?

Now in this case, if you think for a minute, can a roller-coaster ride feel anything?

No it can't.

So it's obviously a description.

It was a thrilling rollercoaster ride.

And finally: ‘My mother is disappointed or disappointing

in my English score’.?

Of course you are talking about your mother's feeling.

She is disappointed in your English score.

Very well guys.

I hope you did well and I hope you understand the difference between ‘ed’ adjectives

and ‘ing’ adjectives.

Let's now review the sentences together and focus on pronunciation.

Now listen very carefully and repeat after me please.

‘Wow, I am excited about my new car.’

‘Wow, I am excited about my new car.’

Good.

‘Try not to get bored when you study English.’

‘Try not to get bored when you study English.’

Good guys.

Third sentence.

‘Math is confusing to me.’

‘Math is confusing to me.’

Very good.

‘It was a thrilling roller coaster ride.’

‘It was a thrilling roller coaster ride.’

Very nice.

And finally: ‘My mother is disappointed in my English

score.’

One last time.

‘My mother is disappointed in my English score.’

Good job guys.

Okay students.

Thank you for watching.

I hope you understood the difference between adjectives ending in ‘ed’ and ‘ing’.

They are very important as they will allow you to describe how you feel and to

describe things and events and situations.

Please keep practicing as this is still a common mistakes among students.

So the more you practice, the better you'll get.

Thank you very much.

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