Speaker 1: I walked into the office wondering what to teach in
this podcast, and then I remember that the students in
my podcast Learner's Study group, were feeling confused about using
gerins and participles or inng and ed adjectives. Sorry, I
know grammar terms can be annoying. Well let's check it out.
Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from
New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael
here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.
And this is Happy English Podcast Episode seven seventy five
Gerens and participles. Today we're diving into two grammar points
that can seem overwhelming gerins and participles. But don't worry.
I'll show you how to make them a natural part
of your English conversations. And I know this may sound
scary even when you see them in a textbook, but
my lesson for you today is to bring these grammar
ideas out of the book and into your English conversations.
I want to help you see how they can add
a lot of depth and interest to your English. Let's
start with gerns. These are the ing verbs that are
used as nouns, and using them can help you add
a bit more to your English. Like imagine your coworker
walks out of a meeting room in your office. You
could just say that she left the room, but that
doesn't always paint the whole picture of what's happening. So
how about this, she left the room laughing. Adding a
gerrand at the end of the sentence like that helps
the listener really see the situation of the subject of
the sentence. When I was walking in Central Park the
other day, I saw an elderly couple. They were sitting
by the lake fishing. Here, too, the gerrand fishing gives
us the whole picture of what the couple was doing.
Of course, you could do that in two sentences they
were sitting by the lake and they were fishing, but
in conversational English, combining them into one sentence sounds more
natural and engaging. They were sitting by the lake fishing.
The grammar pattern here is the main verb followed by
the gerrand. The gerend describes what the subject of the
sentence is doing. In addition to the main verb. If
I say I woke up crying, the word crying explains
what I was doing when I woke up. She left
the room laughing. The word laughing describes what she was
doing when she left the room. And they stood by
the window talking Talking shows what they were doing while standing.
Now let's move on to participle adjectives. Are you interested
in that? Do those leave you confused? Or are you
excited to learn more about this grammar? Interested? Confused, excited?
These are all participle adjectives. They are formed from verbs.
In fact, they are the past participle form of the verb.
But for our examples today, they are being used like adjectives.
These ed words described the subject of the sentence, how
they feel, or their state of being. Like I woke
up tired. Tired describes how I felt after waking up.
Jack left the interview excited. Excited describes his emotional state
when he left the interview after a three hour meeting.
Jenny arrived at the office exhausted. Exhausted shows her condition
upon arriving at the office. So let some things up.
Jerons used like this describe actions happening at the same
time as the main verb. I walked out of the
theater laughing. Laughing is my action. It's what I was
doing when I was walking out of the theater. I
walked out of the theater laughing. And participle adjectives describe
a condition or state. Jack left the meeting excited about
his new job. Excited is Jack's condition or state of being.
It's how he felt after the meeting. Jack left the
meeting excited. Both of these grammar patterns add colorful and
concise descriptions to your sentences. I encourage you to experiment
with these patterns to improve your fluency and expressiveness. And
now it's your turn. Think of a situation you've experienced
recently and tried describing it using Jeren's and participle adjectives.
You know, just take these words and phrases, write them
in a sentence that's true for you or true in
your world, and then memorize your sentences and check this out.
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