Adjective Or verb ?

I was bored -- adjective

I was bored by them-- passive verb

Anon,

There are basically two ways to look at these past participle verbs:

Interested - I am interested in buying an electrica car. If one chooses to look at "interested" as a passive verb, it is possbile because the reason is, the electric car made him to have this interest. But the other approach, which is what American English seems to favor treats these participles as adject

Hello,

How about this?

The man sitting behind you is my friend.

Is "sitting" there an adjective? and is "is" the verb?

Pls. help thanks!

MC

'Sitting behind you' is a nonfinite clause acting as an adjective. 'Is' is the finite verb of the sentence.

Mister Micawber'Sitting behind you' is a nonfinite clause acting as an adjective. 'Is' is the finite verb of the sentence.

Thanks MM

Mr. MM if you don't mind can you check my post "nouns as verbs"? Just want to here from your point.

Thanks

Where is it??

Mister MicawberWhere is it??

Ok I'll just write it here.

nouns as verbs

Do you normally say these?

The victims were helicoptered to the hospital.

Can someone police here?

Thanks!

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The victims were helicoptered to the hospital.

Can someone police here?

I don't, but such verb-forming is common enough in conversation. If enough people use them long enough, they get entered in the dictionaries.