i have a hard question when i use ing or ed to adjective and can i add ing or ed to all adjective if no please say what adjective do you add ing or ed

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agniecha 2240

You can add -ed or -ing to many common adjectives (although not to all of them).

If you use adjectives with -ing you describe things and situations, e.g. annoying, boring, interesting, exciting etc.

You use adjectives with -ed to describe how people feel, eg. annoyed, bored, interested, excited etc.

commented

that one is correct but there's one thing to add: adjectives with -ing endings can refer to things as well as people. however, adjectives with -ed endings can only refer to people (living creatures). there's a big difference between being bored and being boring :).

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you can add ed or ing to any .. but it changes the meaning of course... it is not the same to be annoyed to be annoying.... hope it helps...

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This is the way I teach my students : People are adj-ed because things are adn-ing. Example : I am bored because this is boring.

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