-ing ／ -ed 形容詞

分詞形容詞：interesting 和 interested

-ing and -ed adjectives — English grammar, senior high

接續

-ing：讓人有某種感覺的人事物（boring 令人無聊的）・-ed：人自己的感覺（bored 覺得無聊）

-ing: what causes the feeling (boring) · -ed: how the person feels (bored)

說明

-ing 形容詞描述「讓人覺得…的東西」，-ed 描述「人感到…」：The movie was boring, so I was bored.（電影很無聊，所以我覺得無聊。）I'm interested in history because it's interesting.

-ing adjectives describe what causes a feeling; -ed adjectives describe how people feel: The movie was boring, so I was bored. I'm interested in history because it's interesting.

注意事項

常見的一組：exciting／excited、tiring／tired、surprising／surprised、confusing／confused。
Common pairs: exciting / excited, tiring / tired, surprising / surprised, confusing / confused.

常見錯誤

✗ I'm very boring in math class.
✓ I'm very bored in math class.
說自己的感覺用 bored（I'm boring 是「我很無趣」）。
Your feeling is bored (I'm boring means you're dull).
✗ The news was very surprised.
✓ The news was very surprising.
讓人驚訝的消息用 surprising。
News that surprises is surprising.

例句

The trip was tiring, but we were very excited.

旅程很累，但我們很興奮。

I was confused by the confusing instructions.

說明寫得很混亂，讓我看得一頭霧水。

Are you interested in joining the club?

你有興趣加入社團嗎？

練習

在 Hanabiの小天地聽例句的錄音、做 3 題練習，答對 2/3 就算學會，進度會記下來。

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