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Lucus Ong  +  799338 Sun, 28 Jun 09 03:14 PM
I am trying to learn to use English practically.

Here is a handout about participial adjectives which was written by me.

Could anybody correct my ideas of participial adjectives ?

Could anybody correct my writing below?(as I may wrongly capitalised  words or the examples  I wrote may be grammartically wrong.)

Many thanks in advance



Participial Adjectives
(Adjectives Ending in -ING and -ED)


"-ing" = active
"-ed" = passive


Ex1. Interest
(a)Here are some films I find interesting.
(b)Do you think we are interested in same kind of films?


EX2. Excite
(a) Johnny Depp is one of the most exciting actors.
(b) Excited moviegoers stood in line to buy tickets.


Supplementary for past participle:

*Subtitles are a written translation of the dialogue.
*The drawn oy is crying.


Supplementary for present participle:
Adjectives ending in "ing" can be used to describe on-going actions.
Ex1. The parents took the crying child out of the theater.
Ex2. The increasing sales pleased the producers of the film.
Adjectives ending in "ing" can be used to describe what something is use for.
Ex1.Please wipes the writing table.
Ex2. I need traveling expenses.

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RayH  +  799420 Sun, 28 Jun 09 04:06 PM
I'm not a grammarian so I won't attempt to comment on the technical points of your handout but here are some other corrections.

(b)Do you think we are interested in the same kinds of films?

*The drawn oy is crying.  I have no idea what this means.

Adjectives ending in "ing" can be used to describe what something is used for.

Ex1.Please wipe the writing table.

Ex2. I need travel expenses.   I don't think I've ever heard the term "traveling expenses", you may want to substitute another example here.

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