Adjectives: position and clear feelings

Position and linking verbs

Many adjectives go before a noun or after a linking verb. Some are restricted: asleep usually follows a linking verb, while main normally goes before a noun.

Worked example: A quiet room helped us work. Quiet describes room before the noun. The room was quiet. Quiet follows the linking verb was.

Meaning in feeling pairs

In feeling pairs such as boring/bored, -ing describes what causes the feeling and -ed describes who experiences it. Choose by meaning: a person can be interesting as well as interested.

Worked example: The guide was interesting, and the tourists were interested. The guide caused interest; the tourists experienced it. Both adjectives can describe people.

Try before checking

1. Choose the usual position for asleep.
   • The children were asleep.
   • The asleep children were in bed.
   • The children asleeply waited.
2. Choose: The journey was ___, so I felt ___.
   • bored / boring
   • boring / bored
   • bored / bored
3. What does an interesting guide mean?
   • A guide who attracts interest
   • A guide who must feel interested
   • A guide who is an object, not a person

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