Concentrate - Concentrated - Concentrating - What's the difference?

Now I want you to look carefully at this. July's figures were up on....

Excuse me. Could you please concentrate in these figures? Sorry. Sorry.

They're digging up our street. It's hard to concentrate with all the noise.

To concentrate - to give all your thought and attention to something.

Jay, you've got work to do. Were you asleep? No, I wasn't sleeping. I was thinking.

With your eyes shut? Well, it helps me concentrate. So concentrating is about being focused. We

sometimes use it in the passive to talk about things coming together in large numbers or

quantities. There will be light showers to the west, but

we can expect most of the rain to be concentrated in the north east.

Concentrate is a regular verb, but be careful because 'concentrated' is also an adjective.

This is limeade. It's like lemonade but it's made from limes. And, erm, I'm going to try

it. Oh, it's very concentrated. I need to add water

That's better. Remember that. If you want to tell someone

you're focussing your mind, tell them you're concentrating.

Don't tell them you're concentrated. That's for fruit drinks.

We need a concentrated effort. One, two, three...