ed & -ing adjectives


	ed & -ing adjectives Catherine: Hi Deniz! Mark didn’t like the film. He used the words ‘boring’ and ‘bored’. We use –ing or ‘ing’ adjectives to give more information about things. So if we go to see a really dull film, and nothing much happens, and the film even makes me feel quite sleepy, I can say that the film was boring. I use an –ing adjective – boring – to describe the film. Let’s listen to Mark: Mark: I watched that film on television last night. It was really boring. I was just bored by it. He uses the –ing adjective to describe the film. Mark: It was really boring. But if I want to talk about my feelings about the film – how the film affected me, I use an –ed or ‘ed’ adjective – I was bored. Here’s Mark again: Mark: I was just bored by it. He uses the –ed adjective to describe his feelings about the film. Mark: I was just bored by it. So it’s –ing adjectives for other things, and –ed adjectives for my feelings. The film was boring, and I was bored. Now there are only a certain number of adjectives that work like this. The most common ones are: Bored / boring Excited / exciting أخيكم / سيد إسماعيل