Avoid Common Mistakes: -ING & -ED Adjectives - Basic English Grammar

wanna speak real English from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at English class 101.com hi everybody my name is Alisha in this lesson I'm going to talk about the difference between adjectives that end in Edie and adjectives that end in ing we'll talk about how to decide when to use these and when not to use these will also do a short quiz at the end of the lesson to check your understanding let's get it started okay so first let's begin with adjectives that end in Edie so these are adjectives that we use to describe a feeling or an emotion in a person or we can also use these for animals so if you want to talk about your pets you can use Edie adjectives to talk about an emotion or a feeling you think they might be experiencing so let's look at some examples of Edie adjectives some common Edie ending adjectives here I'm so tired tired ends in Edie I'm tired here another one he looks excited ends at Edie the dog seems scared ends in Edie and are you bored here we see the Edie ending so each of these example sentences includes an Edie adjective because it's referring to someone's feeling or someone's emotion or in this case a dog's emotion and here I've included the word seems because maybe we can't completely understand an animal's emotion but we can say something like the dog seems scared if you like so make sure to use Edie ending adjectives for feelings and for emotions okay now though let's take a look at adjectives that end in ing ing ending adjectives so we use ing ending adjectives when we want to describe the characteristics or the features of something so our trip was exciting so here we're talking about the trip so travel essentially our trip was exciting there's no emotion here in the next example work today was tiring hiring so work is the item we're describing these are the characteristics of work tiring tiring of the characteristic I hope this lesson isn't boring I hope this lesson isn't boring this ends in ing a characteristic of this lesson then children are exhausting children are exhausting this ends in an ing as well this is one example where I think people might experience some confusion here I've said children are exhausting please note the sentence children are exhausted or the children are exhausted is a very different sentence from children are exhausting in this sentence children are exhausting it means that to the speaker so if I'm a speaker it means children make me feel exhausted so the children maybe they have a lot of energy it takes a lot of time and energy and effort to play with kids to play with children so their characteristics that's so exhausting is a characteristic of them their characteristic is that they are exhausting so maybe someone who is tired might say this children are exhausting and then I could say I feel exhausted so please be careful children the children are exhausted and children are exhausting in this example create very different sentences the sentence the children are exhausted means the children in the situation are tired they feel exhausted that's the children's emotion at that point in time so please be careful of your choice in situations like this ok so to recap ing adjectives are used to describe the characteristics or the features of something or someone as in this example edie ending adjectives are used to describe our feelings or our emotions and we can also use them to talk about the feelings and emotions of animals ok so let's try to put this together in a quiz I prepared a few examples and we'll choose the correct form of the adjective in the blank so first one the movie was excited or exciting here we're talking about a movie it's not a person it's not an emotion so exciting is the correct answer the movie was exciting is correct next one your brother looks we have your brother looks tired or your brother looks tiring here we're talking about the speakers brother your brother and we're imagining something about his feelings or his in his emotional state so we should use tired your brother looks tired it's correct here next one the news tonight is worried or the news tonight is worrying here the focus is the news so some information this is not a person's emotion or a person's feeling so we should use worrying the news tonight is worrying it causes me to worry next one this book is so bored or this book is so boring here again the focus is on an object this book in this case so we'll use boring this book is so boring okay next one there are two blanks here so let's choose the correct form we have worked today was something I'm something in the first sentence the focus is work work today was something so not a person not a feeling not an emotion so it's a characteristic work today was exhausting work today was exhausting in the second one however I'm so refering to a person's feelings I am here we should use exhausted work today was exhausting I'm exhausted finally as we saw with this example about children let's look at this sentence my boss is I have the word terrified or my boss is terrifying depending on your choice in this case the meaning of the sentence will change significantly if we choose my boss is terrified it means that's my boss's emotion so terror refers to strong fear being very very afraid of something so my boss is terrified means my boss is experiencing fear a strong amount of fear a strong degree of fear my boss is terrified so this is kind of a negative situation about your boss's emotions if however we say my boss is terrifying it means the boss the characteristic of the boss is that the boss he or she is scary is a very very scary person so the speaker feels terrified perhaps so the boss causes that feeling of terror in the speaker so please be careful my boss is terrified and my boss is terrifying are both grammatically correct sentences but they have very different meanings so this is one example where it's very important to make the right choice between the IDI ending adjectives and the ing ending adjectives so both are okay I hope you don't have a terrifying boss and I hope your boss isn't terrified but just in case this is one example to be cautious of okay so that's a quick introduction to when and how to use IDI adjectives and ing ending adjectives if you have any questions or if you want to practice or make some example sentences please feel free to do so in the comment section below this video if you liked the video please make sure to give it a thumbs up subscribe to our Channel and you can check us out at English class 101.com for some other good resources thanks very much for watching this lesson and I will see you again soon bye [Music]

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Length: 7min 58sec (478 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 05 2019