Easy English Fix | Confusing Adjectives Like Exciting or Excited

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Hey,
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it's Annemarie with Speak Confident English and I'm so exciting because I... no,
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sorry, I think... I'm so excited because tomorrow night I'm going to a concert.
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Now, I'm so exciting or I'm so excited?
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Do you know which one of those is correct or do you ever feel frustrated or
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confused about when to use boring or bored,
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relaxing or relaxed, thrilling or thrilled?
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In English, we have a long list of these confusing word pairs.
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They're adjectives that can end with an ing or an ed,
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and if you're not sure which one to use today, I've got a quick,
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easy fix for you so that you can use these correctly every time you speak in
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English.
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Then at the end I've got an opportunity for you to immediately practice this
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quick trick so that you can make sure you understand it and know how to do it
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correctly.
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Let's start with adjectives that use the ing ending, words like:
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exciting, relaxing, interesting, annoying,
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embarrassing, or even confusing.
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All of these ing adjectives describe what something is like;
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it's quality or characteristic. As a result,
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most of the time when we use the ing ending,
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we use it with the pronoun it. For example,
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I don't want to watch this movie because it's boring.
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I love going to the beach because it's so relaxing.
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Or last night my neighbors were blaring their music.
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It was so annoying.
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Blaring is when the volume of something is really loud.
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So when we're talking about things like music,
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the beach, a movie, or even a situation at work,
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we use the ing form. Now, similar to talking about things,
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we can also use the ing form to talk about people.
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When we are describing what they're like. Again,
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it's all about their qualities or characteristics. For example,
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you might have a colleague at work who is annoying or maybe you have a friend
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who's entertaining. She always makes you laugh.
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If you have a child who always gets you to say yes when you should say no - for
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example, if they want chocolate cake for dinner,
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if they get you to say yes - you might say, my daughter is really convincing.
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In all of those examples, again, I'm describing what someone is like,
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their characteristics. But now let's switch a little bit.
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Remember that example sentence where I said last night my neighbors were blaring
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music and it was annoying.
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If your neighbors are blaring their music all night long and you can't sleep,
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how would you feel? When we're talking about how someone feels,
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then we switch to the ed form.
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So if your neighbors are partying all night long and you can't sleep,
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you would probably feel tired, not tiring.
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You would feel frustrated, not frustrating,
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and of course you might feel annoyed.
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And that is the key difference between using the ing ending and the ed ending of
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those confusing adjective pairs.
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If you're talking about how you or someone else feels,
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then we use that ed form.
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But if we're talking about the quality or characteristic of something or
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someone, then we use the ing.
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Now because we use those ed adjectives to talk about how someone feels,
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we really only use them with people.
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And let's be honest,
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sometimes we imagine how animals might feel.
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The truth is we don't really know how animals feel.
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But if you're a dog person like me and you have a dog in your family,
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you might think that sometimes your dog is annoyed with you.
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Or if you've got a cat,
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maybe you think your cat is sometimes frustrated with you.
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So we can definitely use those ed adjectives like frustrated,
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tired, relaxed,
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thrilled with people and with animals.
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But we can't use them with things. For example,
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a movie doesn't have feelings.
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So we can't say that a movie is frustrated. It doesn't feel,
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but it can have a quality or characteristic that is frustrating and it makes you
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feel frustrated. In other words,
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those ing adjectives cause those ed feelings.
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So if you can remember this simple sentence structure,
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it will help you get this right, every time.
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It was boring so I feel bored.
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It was exciting so I feel excited.
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It was tiring so I feel tired.
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Now you might be wondering,
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does it really matter if you mix up these adjectives?
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The truth is those little mistakes are obvious mistakes to native speakers.
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And there are some times where mixing up those two adjectives can cause some
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real confusion. For example,
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remember we said that using the ing form talks about somebody's quality.
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So if you say, I'm really annoying,
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that means you make other people feel annoyed.
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And I don't know if that's that you want to say.
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A similar example would be if you said something like, I'm really insulting.
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Maybe what you wanted to say is that you felt insulted.
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Someone said something rude or offensive to you. But if you say,
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I'm really insulting,
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it means that you often say or do things that are rude or offensive to other
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people.
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So those are situations when we want to be really careful about making the right
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choice. So let's test your knowledge. In this example,
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which adjective do you think is correct?
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Hopefully you chose that hike was exhausting and as a result,
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how do you feel? You might feel exhausted.
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Let's try another one. How about in this example?
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Which adjective would you choose?
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Hopefully you chose, I feel so relaxed after my two week vacation.
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Now the truth is,
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the best way to get this quick fix into your mind is to practice it.
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And I've got a couple of ways for you to do that. Number one,
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I have more example questions that you can find in my online lesson to get some
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additional practice and I'll leave a link to that just below this video.
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And number two, as you can see,
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we have a really long list of these adjective pairs in English.
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I'm going to leave the full list down below this video and in my online lesson,
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I want you to choose a couple of word pairs and use them in your own example
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sentences. Then share those examples with me,
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and you can do that just below this video. Now,
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if you found this lesson useful to you,
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be sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to this channel so you never miss a
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future lesson.
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I've also got a playlist for you with other examples of quick grammar fixes to
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help you with some of the most challenging parts of English. And with that,
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thank you so much for joining me.
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Have a fantastic week and I look forward to seeing you next time.
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