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Up Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Pleased-Pleasing-Pleasant

I have difficulty in distinguishing these three words.
Can you explain with examples?
  

Top answer

I am pleased to answer your question. (adjective) Pleasing everyone is a very difficult task. (noun) The wind in the trees is a very pleasing sound.

— Philip

  • I am pleased to answer your question.
  • (adjective) Pleasing everyone is a very difficult task.
  • (noun) The wind in the trees is a very pleasing sound.
  • (adjective) His wife has a very pleasant personality.
  • (adjective) I hope this helps.
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I am pleased to answer your question. (adjective)
Pleasing everyone is a very difficult task. (noun)
The wind in the trees is a very pleasing sound. (adjective)
His wife has a very pleasant personality. (adjective)

I hope this helps.
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Adj formed by V-ed are usually used for people. Adj formed by V-ing are usually used for things. Pleasant is an exeption(it means enjoyable, pleasing or attractive; friendly and polite) . It can be used in certain situations.
Examples: a pleasing piece of news
I'm so pleased to see you
He is an pleasant man to work with
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Philip: Yes, that helps, but little. You gave me examples without explanations.

Tieu Cam: Pleasing is not always used for people.
EG: She is a pleasing person to spend an evening with.

Thank you for your help but I need clearer explanations!
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Can you help me again?
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Pleased is typically used to describe a person. Pleasing is generally used to describe the appearance of something. Pleasant is usually used to describe how something makes one feel. For example:

I'm pleased with this vacation so far.

Our tour guide has a pleasing smile.

This journey through the countryside has been pleasant.
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Ti?u C?mAdj formed by V-ed are usually used for people
Not necessarily - a ruined house, an unexploded bomb, etc.
Ti?u C?mAdj formed by V-ing are usually used for things.
Not necessarily -an interesting man, a charming young girl, etc.
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PhilipPleasing everyone is a very difficult task. (noun)
I'd call this a gerund, part of a verb that functions as a noun.
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Thanks. But I don't totally understand.
For example:

He is pleased / pleasant to go with us.
Which one is correct? Why?
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He is ..... to go with us.

This gap is surely an adj. But I don't know which one is correct because they are all adjectives and the difference between 2 words is not very clear.
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upHe is ..... to go with us.
It pleases him to go with us - he is pleased to go with us.

Think of 'be pleased' as as the passive form of the verb - which it still is, though it often functions as BE + adjective

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