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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

-ing & -ed ending adjectives??

Dear sir or madam,

i m very confused about the use or the diffrence between -ing & -ed ending adjective that is followed verb to Be(am/is/are/were/was....)

eg. The professor is inspiring or inspired. etc..

Please clarify for me

Many thanks

Tone
  

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Hi Tone There is a big difference. The professor is inspiring his students. - This means that all his students respect him and like to attend his classes.

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  • Hi Tone There is a big difference.
  • The professor is inspiring his students.
  • - This means that all his students respect him and like to attend his classes.
  • The professor is inspired.
  • - This means that the professor read something that he liked a lot.
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Hi Tone

There is a big difference.

The professor is inspiring his students. - This means that all his students respect him and like to attend his classes.

The professor is inspired. - This means that the professor read something that he liked a lot. He has a lot of energy.

The -ing form is active. There is (or can be) a direct object that received the action o
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many thanks for your response, i hope to ask you more questions soon. I m a new English trainer in LAos.

Regards

Tone
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