use of ing or ed adjectives when?
The film is boring but I'm bored This is a destructive force The force is destroying. Is this sentence possible? When do we use the -ed ending of the adj & when the -ing ending of the adjective?
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The -ing ending is for adjectives describing things involved in a process.
The boring movie is/was involved in the process of you becoming bored.
A drilling tool is used in the process of making a drilled hole.
A fitted garment is one that follows the lines of the body. A fitting expert is someone who knows how to make a garment fitted.
A growing boy is becoming a grown [irregular past tense of grow] man.
The -ed ending is for adjectives describing things after a process is complete; *bored, drilled, fitted, grown.
This article makes a simple distinction (except it includes verbs as well as participles)
The first part doesn't make sense, but it would come out as, "La pelicula está aburrida, pero estoy aburrido." I am bored is still estoy aburrido.
To make it have an -ing ending, you would use present progressive, which is adding a conjugated estar form in front of the verb, and giving the verb an -ado for -ar verbs and -ido for -ir/-er. With exceptions of course.
Shortly,
adjectives ending in -ed describe emotions,
ending in -ing describe opinions.
The force is destroying
You can't use destroying as an adective like this--the sentence is using the present progressive and needs an object.
And sometimes the adjectives just have different meanings:
a knowing smile vs. a well known smile.
Hi pumpkin
Did you get any useful help about your question?
It would be nice to know.
adjectives ending in -ed describe emotions,
ending in -ing describe opinions.
This is embarrassing/disgusting. Are these emotions or opinions? How would one distinguish between the two? Even if you hooked me up to some sort of brain scanner, the best you could say would be that in one case certain areas of the brain were more/less active in one case than the other.Temporal correspondence does not prove cause.
"Creo que ha sido asasinado." (I believe he was murdered. ) describes emotion rather than opinion?
Repito, es necesario que rellenes tu perfil. No sabemos tu idioma nativo.
Hi I am not sure what your first language is but
Adjectives in English can be made from verbs.
Example: to bore
In English we say
"I am bored" - "Estoy aburrido"
"I am boring" - Soy aburrido"
Notice that Spanish has 2 verbs for "to be" - English does not so we form 2 adjectives 1 with -ed and 1 with -ing.
"I am boring you" - here the boring is a continuous verb and not an adjective.
Note that the -ed ending can only be used for things with emotions such as people or animals.
A book can be boring but it can not be bored. Hope this helps.
¿Cuál es tu idioma nativo?
Español? Entonces tengo un truco
