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Speaker 1: I walked into the office wondering what to teach in

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this podcast, and then I remember that the students in

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my podcast Learner's Study group, were feeling confused about using

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gerins and participles or inng and ed adjectives. Sorry, I

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know grammar terms can be annoying. Well let's check it out.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast Episode seven seventy five

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Gerens and participles. Today we're diving into two grammar points

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that can seem overwhelming gerins and participles. But don't worry.

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I'll show you how to make them a natural part

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of your English conversations. And I know this may sound

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scary even when you see them in a textbook, but

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my lesson for you today is to bring these grammar

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ideas out of the book and into your English conversations.

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I want to help you see how they can add

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a lot of depth and interest to your English. Let's

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start with gerns. These are the ing verbs that are

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used as nouns, and using them can help you add

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a bit more to your English. Like imagine your coworker

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walks out of a meeting room in your office. You

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could just say that she left the room, but that

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doesn't always paint the whole picture of what's happening. So

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how about this, she left the room laughing. Adding a

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gerrand at the end of the sentence like that helps

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the listener really see the situation of the subject of

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the sentence. When I was walking in Central Park the

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other day, I saw an elderly couple. They were sitting

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by the lake fishing. Here, too, the gerrand fishing gives

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us the whole picture of what the couple was doing.

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Of course, you could do that in two sentences they

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were sitting by the lake and they were fishing, but

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in conversational English, combining them into one sentence sounds more

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natural and engaging. They were sitting by the lake fishing.

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The grammar pattern here is the main verb followed by

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the gerrand. The gerend describes what the subject of the

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sentence is doing. In addition to the main verb. If

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I say I woke up crying, the word crying explains

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what I was doing when I woke up. She left

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the room laughing. The word laughing describes what she was

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doing when she left the room. And they stood by

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the window talking Talking shows what they were doing while standing.

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Now let's move on to participle adjectives. Are you interested

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in that? Do those leave you confused? Or are you

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excited to learn more about this grammar? Interested? Confused, excited?

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These are all participle adjectives. They are formed from verbs.

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In fact, they are the past participle form of the verb.

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But for our examples today, they are being used like adjectives.

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These ed words described the subject of the sentence, how

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they feel, or their state of being. Like I woke

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up tired. Tired describes how I felt after waking up.

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Jack left the interview excited. Excited describes his emotional state

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when he left the interview after a three hour meeting.

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Jenny arrived at the office exhausted. Exhausted shows her condition

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upon arriving at the office. So let some things up.

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Jerons used like this describe actions happening at the same

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time as the main verb. I walked out of the

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theater laughing. Laughing is my action. It's what I was

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doing when I was walking out of the theater. I

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walked out of the theater laughing. And participle adjectives describe

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a condition or state. Jack left the meeting excited about

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his new job. Excited is Jack's condition or state of being.

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It's how he felt after the meeting. Jack left the

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meeting excited. Both of these grammar patterns add colorful and

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concise descriptions to your sentences. I encourage you to experiment

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with these patterns to improve your fluency and expressiveness. And

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now it's your turn. Think of a situation you've experienced

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recently and tried describing it using Jeren's and participle adjectives.

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You know, just take these words and phrases, write them

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in a sentence that's true for you or true in

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your world, and then memorize your sentences and check this out.

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And on top of that, each episode has exercises where

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you can practice this English point with speaking and writing

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dot com and choose podcast lesson seven seventy five. Remember,

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learning another language is not easy, but it's not impossible,

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