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English Grammar Tip – Are you bored, or boring?
I’m bored? I’m boring? Not sure of the difference? Better watch this basic English grammar lesson then, or you could be saying something rather rude about yourself!
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1nce again rebecca proofs she is not boring 1 bit! What about I am learning/ I am learned? Is it correct, the second one? I read it on a book, but teacher told me (my stupid ignorance teacher from india) it is not correct to say “I am learned”. is it?
@DogMan, “I am learning” means u are still learning and so do I :D, but I think “I have learned” is correct one :).
Hi Dogman
Thanks kindly for the feedback.
As wagas said, in the sentence “I am learning”, learning is a verb in the present continuous tense, not an adjective. It means you are learning right now.
The word “learned” ( pronounced ler -nid) is an adjective. Technically, you could say “I am learned.” – it would mean that you have a lot of knowledge or are scholarly. So usually, we would not say that about ourselves, because it sounds a little pompous ( like we’re showing off). We could certainly use it to talk about other people though, as in ” He /She is a learned professor.”
Hope this helps! Good luck!
Rebecca
and I liked the quiz given below the video!!! Thanks a lot!!!
=)
Glad it helped you!
that was a very interesting lesson, ms. rebecca. thank you.
My pleasure.
It’s an intresting lesson.
hi ribaco im glad your lesson reali thanks againg about your lesson and bye bye
I really like this lesson…
Congratulations
Sometimes I’m really confused between ‘-ed’ and ‘-ing’. Your lessons are so helpful for me. Thanks.
thanks miss
i have full mark in these quiz
because i benfit alhot from you
Thanks to eudes, rajkumarkalshetty, fowz, marcos, rachel and amhd for your feedback.
Like any language, English has many small grammatical points such as these, which must be mastered in order to speak and write well.
If you’ve understood this lesson, you have already improved in an area where many ESL students make mistakes. Great work!
Hi!!!
Rebecca thanks for your lessons you a teacher awesome
Thanks. Glad you’re enjoying the website.
By the way, you should say:
You’re an awesome teacher. :)
Dear Rebbecca,
I am a new student to this site. I do enjoy listening to your vie does, but I do have a question for you. I was wondering if you have any videos for verbal instructions in the passive tenses please let me know. The reason I am asking this questions because the majority of students are having problems with this part of grammar.
Thank you
Mohsen
We do actually have some lessons on this website dealing with the passive tense. Please check them out here:
James: Passive Introduction
Ronnie: Easy Introduction to Passive in English
Dear Rebbecca
I have a lot of relatives living there. Why can’t we say,,
I have a lot of relatives are living there.
Please let me know.
Thank you
Too many verbs.
You can say either:
I have a lot of relatives living there.
or
A lot of my relatives are living there.
Hope this helps.
You are so great mam. I love how you teach! Thank you so much!:) what can I say? 5 stars! :)
May God Bless You!
Thanks, Julia. Bless you, too, and all the best with your English.
It was very interesting for me.
Thank you,Dear Rebecca.
You’re welcome, Renaldo. Glad it helped.
I am Sujith. I am from Sri Lanka. You are teaching us English very well. Your lessons are packed with useful facts. You really know the correct way to teach English. I am interested in watching your videos. I need to thank you. You are so excellent. You are successful.
Well, thanks Sujith. So many compliments all at once! You are very kind. I’m very happy the lessons are helping you improve your English. All the best to you, and do tell your friends about our site so we can continue to add more videos.
you are very kind an generos teacher no like my teacher in the school
Rebeca,
really thanks because I was confused about that.
You can’t believe that I have been studying english for long time and the diference between bored and boring were terrble for me. But now, I undesrtand those. really thanks
you are a good teacher thanks
So glad I could help you understand the difference. My best to you, Juanita.
superb Mrs. Rebecca you’r superb.
Mrs. Rebecca when we say”you may sit here or you can sit here so what is major difference in it?
Thanks for your positive feedback, Sam. So glad I could help you.
Usually, “may” is more polite than “can”.
Hope this helps. My best wishes to you, Sam.
i love u rebecca you are superb
I’m a new user. Thank you very much for your pleasant voice and smile.Hope to know alot of interesting things with your help.
“Hi. I’m not James, I’m Rebecca…” LOL :))).
Thanks for the lessons.
Glad you are all enjoying and learning from the lessons. Keep checking out the new lessons from all the teachers; there may be one which targets your mistakes exactly!
My best to each of you.
This lesson is very useful.
Thank you!
i liked the way put your explaination
hi i m realy imperess to your teaching i like you very much you r a good teacher . i sohail amin this is my id sohailamin786@yahoo.com plz send me your id so i can cuminicate to you bye allah hafiz
i m realy intrestad to learn english i watched your teaching its very good
Hello, Rebecca! I think you’re one of the clearest teachers in the site. You know, I can’t get in the forum, I don’t know why, it’s just some kind of a technical problem. So I have a question for you. Please make a lesson about when and how to use “have had”, “had had”, “will have had”, “should have had” and stuff like that.
I really y appriciate what you’re doing here. Thank you!
hi,rebecca.thank you for your all help again.
Hello, Rebecca! Thank you for your lesson. I always confused “-ed” with “-ing”. Now I understand. I like the quiz very much. It’s very helpful.
Hello, Rebecca! Your lesson is interestING! And I’m not bored! I understand!
Thanks!
hi
i just want to say that your lesson was very interesting but it will help me more when you write down the examples on the board for me
please help me,i did not see any answer about my quwestion,i do not know how to get inside de comment
I am a new user. it was really exiting me. your explanation is simply superub.
I like T.Rebbecca. I am intrested to learn your interesting teaching. Thanks. Teach more ENGLISHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!
Well explained and easy to understand.
Now I can pass it on to my friends, thanks again.
Rebecca madam i love ur teaching styles. i love ur way of explaning …plzzz plzzz upload ur new lessons of past tense….ilove u ..teacher…..maaa maa maa maa
thank you a lot
Hi, Ms Rebecca i would like to suggest an idea and i hope it will help all of us. concerning the grammar lessons i think it will be helpful if you make the lessons in a specific order in goal to take us step by step to the level where we can master all tenses. for example simple present first then past ……
thank you and i hope i will hear soon from you
regards
Lovely Rebbeca, A pleasure to say hello to you. I found very interesting your lesson but I have a big doubt: Can I say.??… I am boring also??…I mean trying to describe me like and adjetive??…in the sense I´m not enthusiastic……Is it ok ? or wrong,? because in Spanish can be like that… thanks before hand…regards by the way I´m from Chile.
Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You’re amazing….
this lesson is very useful for me thanks alot for such a kind lesson……..cheereo
hi rebacca,
i like ur positive way of approach & ur teaching style.can you please tell me,difference between im bored &i was bored.
thanks
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I really god it now.. Thank u so much..
Be happy ever.. :)
hi rebecca i was show your video, really interesting, and my score 80.00, so now i understand bored and boring, bored if we describing for our feel and boring we describing for the things.
i’m happy with engvid. thank’s Rebecca thank’s Engvid
a great lesson ! thank you veru much !
Hi rebecca I like your explanations. Can this lesson be considered as a participial adjectives lesson or is it different?
Dear Rebecca:
I want to thank you so much for the lesson and you explain it really well I understood how to use the words… thanks again
wonderful Job thanks alot and i have a little confusion?? i will be highly thankful if someonee will clear plz,,like we say i felt bored or i felt bore which one is correct and why???? since felt is already past so why we cant use bore instead of bored??????
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only one word … nice thank u..
well,everything is fine,this lesson isn’t boring.
It was a veri exciting test!!!
It was a very exciting test!!!I’m so pleased to take it!!
What is the correct?: It was disapponted to hear about the earthquake? or It was disappointing to hear about the earthquake?
Hello ms.Rebecca my name it’s DANIELA i saw your video so great help me so much thanksfull bye bye Have a great day’s bye with all my respec Daniela
on saturday, the 27th’ is it correct english? should I use ‘the’ before 27th.
yes, you would say something like “We will meet for coffee on the 27th.”
thanks
very interesting lesson
thanks!
but you speak slowly. I can’t catch a lecture!
Many students find it frustrated to learn English preposition.
Why frustrated is wrong ,frustrated is describing the students feeling,can you explain it to me, please
I have a question
Many students find it frustrating to learn English preposition.
Why in this case frustrated is wrong?
The way you feel the word always end with ed
So frustrated is describing the students feeling ,why it is wrong?
Rebecca ,can you please explain it to me?
Thank you
Thank you Rebecca. It was a simple e very usefull lesson.
hai mam hope you are doing well?? Your all classes are excellent. mam can you explain me what is the difference between respond,response and responds. thank you
i’m spired by your lesson, because you talk interesting… is it correct ma’am???
Thank you so much , Teacher Rebecca . I Love it
thank u madam.u r a lovely teacher.ur all lesson are very usefull for us.i want to ask 1 question?(we are done).in this sentense done is third form of verb y we are using are??is done adjective??
plz explain it.i will wait ur answer….
thanks teachers 4 ur help and i really like this program. tanx alot of times
we are done.is it passive??plz explain.
madam you are superb
my friend wrote “so boring” on her facebook wall.she wanted to show her feeling but it’s wrong n it should be “so bored”. Am i right?
Rebecca, You’re a very good teacher. I was understand very well.
all right
This is why I hate teachers. You answer questions with more questions. You lost me after 20 seconds. I googled the answer I was looking for in less time.
Dear Rebbecca,
I am a new student to this site. I do enjoy listening to your vie does, but I do have a question for you. I was wondering if you have any videos for verbal instructions in the passive tenses please let me know. The reason I am asking this questions because the majority of students are having problems with this part of grammar.
Thank you
mahmoud barakat
it is an interesting lesson . I want to develop my english skills and need your help can you give us more vocabulary lessons to expand our vocabulary and at th same time to enriche our speaking.please I want to know the difference between “I wanna” and “I want”
CAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS.
WHICH ONE IS CORRECT? AND WHY?
1. I HAD AN EXHAUSTED DAY AT WORK.
2. I HAD AN EXHAUSTING DAY AT WORK.
THANKS, RUI
Thank you madam.Your teaching is cool…I understood.
Interesting lesson !
Thank you so much Rebecca .
Thanks Rebeca. It is interesting!!!!
thanks ma’am rebecca..i have learned.
thanks, rebecca ,
it is too gooooooooooooooooooooooodddd,………….
really amazing
Hi, nice work, but i want to ask which from of the verb should be used in each sentences.
like :
1. i feel bored because the movie is boring.
2. i am interested because the play was interesting.
Please explain me.. Thanks for you support.
good lesson thanks
Thank you so much.
you’re very good teacher
hi teacher you are a very kindlly person
Hi Rebecca,
Can we use suppose to instead of should? I would be really grateful to u if you explain to me the different between suppose to and should.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Thanks so much.
I would find how to use practice with theese form ed and ing.
But thank you for your clear lesson.
such a huge help!thanks!
you have a uniqu way very short lesson , very very useful too
it really help studets to larn gammar
Your lessons very interesting.Thanks miss Rebecca.
Thank you my techar i can answer all your question it was a good lesson
thank you it`s so helpful
thanks a lot can u give lesson about ‘OF’ thank you
Hi Rebecca,
I am a new student online. And I have found very interesting all of your classes. You are a very good English teacher. I am an advanced student, but still I have a lot of difficulties when I write and speak. I study myself most of the time. I enjoy studying and reading, creating my own vocabulary, I also see a lot of television news, series and movies in English only. I’m very dedicated student. I can understand 95% very well. But sometimes I feel I still need a lot to do. Could you please send me a tip how I can improve or be better.
(Could you please correct my writing) Thank you very much Rebecca.
I’m so thankful to this site…i’m interested to all the video’s to watch because it is very helpful helpful to me to study how to speak english corectly, and the speaker whose in the video is interesting how to teach.(please correct my writing) tnx jhong
i was too bad in that
Spelling of earthquake and combination is incorrect the reason why i m telling this because i love this site and i dont want that anybody else sat that, sorry
I’ve always had problem with this, when use -ed when -ing. It was very helpful :)
hello mam,
its little bit confusing.i got only 80 marks.
i have one question which confuses me.
The question is “what a boring/bored life”?
thanks
It is a very interesting
very useful lesson…thanks
nice lesson, i learn a lot today.. ^^ thx u
Professor Rebecca,
Thanks for the great work! Your lessons have been very helpful. Thanks a lot!!!!!
i like your explanation because it doesnt any interupt in my computer, not like the other people I dont know why. but every body its still ok. btw(by the way) i am a little bit confuse, when i feel bored but right now, do i use i was feel bored? it is not a past?why cant use i am feel boring. tks
wow i never correct all quiz now i can do wonderful
Hi rebecca.
your lesson help much for me. Thanks.
Dear Rebecca?
The pleasure is all mine, and thank you for your kind class.
I have a question about these word (bored, boring, interested, interesting, etc) are they adjective? if yes sometimes I think every word has “ing” is noun?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Amir
Great class, great website and great teacher!!!!!!!!!!!