Participial Adjectives

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Participial Adjectives

• Boring or Bored
• Confusing or Confused
• Exciting or Excited
• Embarrassing or Embarrassed
• ING? or ED?
• What a confusing decision!

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Be Careful!Participial adjectives look like
verbs, but theyre not verbs!
Theyre ADJECTIVES!
What do adjectives do?
They DESCRIBE!
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Heres a question for you!

• In English, where do you usually put an adjective
  in a sentence?

In English there are two places they can go
Before a noun This is confusing grammar. That
was a boring movie.
After the verb beThis grammar is
confusing. That movie was boring.
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There are 2 types of participial adjectives.
Present Participial Adjectives end in ING For
example boring exhausting exciting surpris
ing confusing embarrassing
Past Participial Adjectives end in ED For
example bored exhausted excited surprised
confused embarrassed
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So heres the big question!
When do you use boring? When do you use bored?
Exciting? Excited? Depressing?
Depressed? Fascinating? Fascinated?
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We can often view a situation in one of the
following ways Cause.Result
Cause.Feeling Doer.Receiver
For example, if you are in an English class and
the grammar really confuses you. You would
say This grammar is confusing. (Its the cause
of your confusion.) You are confused. (This is
the result of that grammar lesson. Its how you
feel.)
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So
Present Participial Adjective Past Participial
Adjective -ING -ED
Cause Result
The lesson was boring. The students were bored.
Cause Feeling
The book is
interesting. The reader is interested.
The doer The receiver
The speaker was boring. The audience was
bored.
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If you read an article in the newspaper that
really surprises you
How would you describe the article?
It was a surprising article.
How would you describe yourself?
I was surprised by that article.
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If you watch a movie that really fascinates you
How would you describe the movie?
That was a fascinating movie I saw.
How would you describe yourself?
I was fascinated by that movie.
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If you are in a situation that embarrasses you
How do you describe yourself in that situation?
I am embarrassed.
How would you describe the situation?
What an embarrassing situation.
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If a chemical irritates your skin
How do you describe the chemical?.
That chemical is irritating.
How do you describe your skin?
My skin is irritated.
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