Material Unit 2
14. -ed and -ing adjectives
-ed and -ing adjectives
Adjectives that end ‘-ed’ (e.g. ‘bored’, ‘interested’) and adjectives that end ‘-ing’ (e.g. ‘boring’, ‘interesting’) are often confused.
-ed adjectives
Adjectives that end ‘-ed’ describe emotions – they tell us how people feel about something.-ed adjectives
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-ing adjectives
Adjectives that end ‘-ing’ describe the thing that causes the emotion – a boring lesson makes you feel bored.
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Remember that people can be boring but only if they make other people feel bored.
- He talks about the weather for hours. He’s so boring.
- NOT
I was very boring at the party so I went home.
Here are some more adjectives that can have both an ‘-ed’ and an ‘-ing’ form
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Click on the links below to practice