ed和ing adjective

大多數 verb:
verb + -ing 變成 present participle

verb + -ed 變成 past participle, 除了下列
a. irregular verb, break – broken
b. stop – stopped, excite - excited, dry – dried … etc

present participle 用來 form continuous tense (be + present participle)
如果 verb是 transitive verb, past participle用來 form passive voice (be + past participle)

present participle 和 past participle 有時還可以做 adjective
excite (verb), exciting (present participle), excited (past participle)

I read an exciting book.

The excited crowd cheered their idol wildly.
(= The crowd who were excited cheered their idol wildly. )

Present participles have an active meaning and past participles have a passive meaning.

We use –ing participle to describe a feeling that something causes. –ing adjectives express the idea that something affects us.

It was a frightening movie. (It frightened us/It made us scared)

The movie was amusing. (It made us laugh.)

可以形容人, 事物, 東西
在非正式的 (informal) 英語, -ing adjectives有時表示強調不滿, 輕視, 異議
freezing cold, scalding hot bath, scalding attack on the government’s policy, mountain of stinking rubbish, a raving lunatic … etc

We use –ed participle to describe a feeling that someone experienced.

I felt frightened when I watched that movie.
(I was frightened/I experienced fear.)

The audience laughed a lot and they were very amused.
(The audience were amused when they saw something funny.)

個人感受, 可以形容人
Inanimate (沒生命的) objects cannot have feelings so we don’t use –ed adjectives about feelings to describe them.


2014-01-23 02:21:22 補充：
No offence

To 回答者: ang******
-ing adjective 不單是係形容死物或動物, 還可以形容人

I met some very interesting people at the party last night.

interesting (adjective) 形容people

2014-01-23 03:57:44 補充：
從生物學角度來看, 人可列入動物 (animal) 中,
My apology to ang******.

如果是你的感覺(or past tense) 用ed
eg:
This book is exciting!
(因is 是verb 一句句子no two verb)(excited 是noun)
I am excited.
(excited是verb)
原 excite

ed係形容人的
ing係形容死物或動物

2014-01-22 18:01:55 補充：
e.g
I am amused because the cartoon is amusing.

2014-01-25 10:38:26 補充：
但是也有interested形容人

2014-01-25 10:42:56 補充：
I am interested about the knowledge about disease.