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Common Mistakes with English ADJECTIVES 👉🏼 -ed and -ing endings


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hello I’m Emma from English and in this
lesson we’re focusing on adjectives but
not just any adjectives pairs of
adjectives that can end in either EB or
ing because you might be a little
confused about when you can use each
type of adjective am i embarrassed or am
i embarrassing is he bored or is he
boring
lots of these English adjectives are
made by adding edy or ing to a verb for
example the verb frustrate can become an
adjective by adding in D frustrated or
ing frustrating these endings are called
suffixes and when we add them to the end
of a verb they transform our verb into
an adjective but you need to know how to
use each of these types of adjectives
and we’re going to do that right now
right here in this lesson an adjective
that ends in ing is used to describe the
characteristics of something the
characteristics of a person or a place
or a thing or a situation it’s amazing
it’s interesting it’s tiring adjectives
that end in EB are used to describe an
emotion or a feeling and it’s usually a
temporary thing something that only
people can have generally only people
have feelings most of the time but some
animals can also have feelings but you
can’t use EB adjectives to describe the
feelings of a thing or of the situation
because they don’t have feelings if you
say that something or someone is boring
they or it makes you feel bored so the
thing or the person that is boring is
what makes you feel bored it bores you
okay there’s our verb if you say that
something is exciting it makes you feel
excited it
here did you notice any patterns in
those examples if you’re talking about a
temporary feeling or an emotion then use
the EB form of the adjectives she’s
bored they’re frightened
I feel annoyed he’s so excited about his
trip to Thailand
she felt so annoyed that her friend let
her down
if you’re describing the thing or the
person that calls to those feelings then
use the ing form of the verb for example
that movie was strange it was really
confusing it made me feel confused let’s
look at the difference again he’s bored
so he’s not interested in what’s
happening he’s not having a good time if
he’s at a party perhaps he doesn’t like
the music or he doesn’t really know
anyone and he’s got no one to talk to
he’s bored he feels bored but if you say
he’s boring it means he’s not an
interesting person but you don’t enjoy
talking to him he’s never got anything
interesting to say he’s boring he makes
me feel bored all right it’s time to
practice a little now I’m going to read
out a few sentences for you and I want
you to try to choose if the adjectives
in each sentence is the correct
adjective or not ready I’m very exciting
to see my sister I’m very exciting to
see my sister
what do you think it’s a incorrect
answer I am very excited to see my
sister it’s how I feel I’m excited I
feel excited to see my sister ah I don’t
understand these instructions they’re so
annoying I don’t understand these
instructions they’re so annoying
yes the instructions are annoying
they’re making me feel annoyed I’m so
boring I’ve got nothing to do I’m bored
because I’ve got nothing to do I feel
bored
I felt so embarrassing when I spilt
tomato sauce down my dress on a date
I felt so embarrassed
I felt embarrassed when I spilt tomato
sauce down my dress on a date I hate
being the center of attention it was so
embarrassing when they called my name
and I had to go up on stage it was
embarrassing
the experience was embarrassing I felt
embarrassed
oh this coffee is disgusting I can’t
drink it okay I’ve made a worksheet for
you so you can keep practicing these
adjectives after this lesson finishes
you can download it for free right here
I want you to practice using these
adjectives when you’re speaking when
you’re writing and when you’re listening
to other people listen to how they’re
used
I’m also going to send you the answers
to the worksheet so that you know what
you got right what you need to improve I
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