SKILL 51: USE -ED AND -ING ADJECTIVES CORRECTLY

The first thing you have to know is that, adjectives are words that describe the qualities or states of being of nouns: enormous, doglike, silly, yellow, fun, fast. They can also describe the quantity of nouns: many, few, millions, eleven.

In the structure part of the TOEFL test there are verbs that can be used as adjectives, verbs ending in -ed and -ing.

The woman cleans the car.

                     VERB

The cleaning woman worked on the car.

    ADJECTIVE

The woman put the cleaned car back in the garage.

                            ADJECTIVE

In the first example, cleans is the verb of the sentence. In the second example, cleaning is a verbal adjective describing woman. In the third example, cleaned is a verbal adjective describing car.

-ED AND -ING ADJECTIVES

TYPE	MEANING	USE	EXAMPLE
-ING	Active	It does the action of the verb.	… the happily playing children…. (The children play.)
-ED	Passive	It receives the action of the verb.	… the frequently played record… (Someone plays the record.)

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