ADJECTIVES ENDING IN -ED OR -ING

Dear students,

As we have seen in class, there are some adjectives that can end in -ed or in -ing. Depending on their meaning, we should choose one or the other:

- I have nothing to do. I am so bored. 

- I never want to do anyting. I am so boring!

Nobody wants to be boring but we are sometimes bored (not in the English class, of course!).

We translate the verb to be as ESTAR with adjectives ending in -ED; and we translate the verb to be as SER with adjectives ending in -ING.

Here you have a very useful explanation of this and some online exercises.

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/quick-grammar/adjectives-ending-ed-and-ing

http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/ed-and-ing-adjectives-describing-feelings-and-things/

http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/multi/eding.htm