Want to turn your basic vocabulary into advanced English vocabulary? Learn this easy trick to master 30 verbs in just 10 minutes! You’ll learn how to turn basic words into advanced vocabulary by using ‘en’ as a prefix or suffix. By using this hack to learn vocabulary, you will communicate faster, sound smarter, and speak more like a native English speaker. Click on this video to improve your vocabulary in minutes!
Practice makes perfect. So when you’re done, practice your vocabulary with our quiz. Feel free to check out the resource where you can find a list of vocabulary created using this hack!
Very glad to have your lesson again Rebecca! Thank you very much! Your lesson is very interesting!
yaoqian
Yep! I agree with you,Rebecca’s lessons are engaging.
Affixes are excellent tools for expanding our vocabulary Rebecca, no doubt about it. But as you mentioned not all the words follow the same pattern. So, how do we know when to use a given suffix -say “-ment”- in order to change the function of the word and its meaning?
Very useful tips to increase our vocabulary Rebecca; thanks for sharing all this with us.
Regino
So glad you found the lesson useful. We need all the tricks and tips we can get to learn more effectively. All the best to you.
Rebecca
Interesting and useful! Thank you, Rebecca :)
Happy04
YEAH Rebecca..the same haircut..i like it
Darroumi
Amazing lesson, Rebbeca!! Extremely helpul!! I would like to take the opportunity to express my enormous gratitude to you extended to all of teachers of the Engvid for the outstanding job. Your lessons have been more than useful for me since I got in America few weeks ago. For all THANK YOU KINDLY!!! Jose.
Jlourenco38
Thank you, Jose, for your warm words. I am very glad to know our lessons have helped you. You communicate very well and on behalf of everyone at engvid, I wish you all the best.
Rebecca
Your reply brought happiness to my day, dear Rebecca! Thank you very much! I’m living in Portland, OR for two months now, and I keep learning with the lessons of Engvid team — really really helpful!
Warm greetings.
Jose.
Jlourenco38
Hi Rebecca,
I’d like to ask a question on grammar. In my message above I wrote that “I’m living…” Since I’ve refered to certain period, what is the grammaticaly right form:
“I am living for two months now”
“I have lived for two months now”
“I have been living for two months now”
Neither?
I’ll appreciate your precious answer.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Jose.
Jlourenco38
“I’ve been living in xxx for yyy months and…” –> Duration, still happening
“I have been living in xxx since September” –> Starting point
Jack91
Thanks Rebecca!
This was another great lesson from you which helped me a lot. My English speaking is strengthen every day because of you all.
Fabio Cicerre
thank you for new words
Olivine
YES, mam Rebecca mam as you said in the video while teaching it’s strange..
Sivakumar
Yes It’s strange for me so we have to understand this short of word and have to comfortable with the word sing with others And everyone have to follow this pattern as Ms Rebecca told us and most significant also who is learning and improving English..
Sivakumar
Thanks Rebecca! It’s very easy and fun)
Rasl479
thanks for your this nice and really helpful video and it worked out. you have really shortened my english learning time, haven’t you Rubecca? :P :)
Ahad
Thank you, Ahad. It’s always my goal to teach the tricks and shortcuts that allow people to learn more quickly and confidently. SO glad the lesson helped you. I wish you all the best.
Rebecca
Hello Rebecca! Thank you for the lesson! You are so positive, I love to learn English watching videos of yours.
aynur1984
Aww…thanks, that’s very kind of you. I believe we are all teachers and learners in one way or the other and the best way to live in this world is to be warm and encouraging towards each other. My best wishes to you, Anyur1984.
Rebecca
Thank you very much Rebecca!!!I didn´t know how easy it could be to sound smarter!!!
Hope to see you again soon in another interesting lesson like this ;)
knopfler86
Well, there you go! You got the point! Thanks for your feedback and all the best, Knopfler86.
Rebecca
Thanks very much! I didnt’t know that it can be so easy.Very good lesson. :)
Malwina78
Yes, I am so glad you enjoyed the vocabulary hack. I plan to record more shortcuts like these to shorten people’s learning time and deepen their understanding! My best wishes to you.
Rebecca
Thank you very much, Rebecca. It is a very useful lesson! I got 100! Bye!
Júlio César L Sousa
Thanks you Rebbecca, Your lesson is so helpful with me, i study a lot from you. Hope can see your new lesson soon. thanks again
Mai Anh June
thanks Rebecca:)
izinenko
Mrs. Rebecca,
What is the difference in meaning of these adjectives ending in -ing if they come after sense verbs with people?
Your boss sounds interesting.
He looks boring.
You sound amazing.
They seem amusing.
She sounds exhausting.
(interested/interesting)
(bored/boring)
(amazed/amazing)
(annoyed/annoying)
(excited/exciting)
gag
Excuse me, Fahdbensalman! About interested/interesting, according to the Learnersdictionary, “Interested is an adjective that describes a person or people who like something and want to know more about it, as in these examples:
The listeners were all very interested in the lecture. (interested describes the listeners)”.
Also, I would like to add: the ‘ed’ ending indicates the person or thing that suffers the action, and the ‘ing’ one indicates the person or thing that causes the action; for instance, a boring boss (he causes something annoying), and a bored boss (somebody else caused something boring to the boss).
I hope that it will help you.
See you.
Edinho
Fahdbensalman, please check my older lesson on this subject:
Edinho, thanks so much for taking the time to help out so kindly and knowledgeably.
Rebecca
-ed adjectives
Adjectives that end ‘-ed’ describe emotions – they tell us how people feel about something.
I was very bored in the maths lesson. I almost fell asleep.
He was surprised to see Helen. She’d told him she was going to Australia.
Feeling tired and depressed, he went to bed.
-ing adjectives
Adjectives that end ‘-ing’ describe the thing that causes the emotion – a boring lesson makes you feel bored.
Have you seen that film? It’s absolutely terrifying.
I could listen to him for hours. He’s one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met.
I can’t eat this! It’s disgusting! What is it?
Remember that people can be boring but only if they make other people feel bored.
He talks about the weather for hours. He’s so boring.
NOT I was very boring at the party so I went home.
Briklend Handersson
probably this isn’t my level, I didn’t understand too good, but I have 10 out of 10)
sorry for my mistakes…
guzya
work more Gulzar ….. I’m sure you will be successly
mkpln1977
NICE JOB REBECCA.
Thank you very much for your lesson.it’s really I know and I got 9 out of 10
Muad Abdiaziz
Great! Very usefull! Thanks a lot!
PanPropal
Great lesson ! Thank you Rebecca !
Fabienne974
This lesson helps us a lot for expanding our vocabulary. Thank you so much, Rebecca.
Chloe.Lee
10/10 Thank you for the lesson, Rebecca! You are the best!
viacheslavkr
Amazing lesson..
Angel. M
I got 9/10
Angel. M
Thanks Rebecca. This was a very usefull lesson, I learned a lot. I helped me to widen my vocabulary.
Aleachi
Great! Then the lesson achieved its goal. Thanks for your feedback and remember that useful is spelled with one l, as are the words beautiful, helpful, etc. All the best.
Rebecca
Thank you Rebecca. For your lesson is very useful.
Ukrit
thank you, Rebecca! You’re a great teacher! 100%
Vladlena2015
Well, you must be a great student. That’s all I can say! Thanks, and my best wishes to you.
Rebecca
thanks teacher rebeca i got 9.
iamlove
Thank you Rebecca for the lesson.It is quite interesting .I haven’t know this pattern before ,although the form seems very natural.It helps to shorten the speech and it will sound more fluently.Thank you.
anahit15
Thanks; glad you found this vocabulary hack useful. I wish you all the best.
Rebecca
thank you Becca
mkpln1977
Thanks, Rebecca!
Edinho
Doesn’t this set of verbs reflect German origis of English?
hiubhp
Thanks a lot !!!!
brc75
Thanks a lot, Rebecca! You’ve just expanded my vocabulary.
Benny Dilson
Thank you so much for your impressive lesson.But if you do not mind i want to you to make a lesson for me.
The lesson about passive voice “A movie produced by Hollywood actor Brad Pitt” I know when we use passive voice we have to use a helping verp(am,is are,was,were,has,have)but in above example why we dont need?
Thank you..
Mazik
Thanks for your feedback. Please check some of our lessons on the passive voice:
You can download and print it out for free. All the best!
Rebecca
Thanks for your consideration.You always make it great.I have watched the lesson then I did the quiz and I got 10 correct out of 10.In additional I have taken a note-write down the new words.
So helpful for better understanding while watching a movie or listening a music and etc.
I appreciate you
Demis Roussos ( lyrcs music name is Rebecca) :
you help us to your star,it shines right away wherever you are
Rebecca,let your mind no more over such darkening your door.”darkening” I found out a word which it belongs our topic.
bakhtiyar ali
what a fantastic lesson. Thanks rebecca!!!
I love you
FLAVIO ROCHA
Hello nice to with your lessons
7afez
Thanks, Rebecca!
This lesson deepened my Englush with nice and easy way!☺
Musya
9/10 Thanks Rebecca! =D
Cristian Gutiérrez
It is amazing lesson and amazing teacher. Rebecca has strengthened my English knowledge.
Medbrat
Wow, how wonderful that you could apply the vocabulary hack right away in such a powerful way. Congratulations and all the best to you.
Rebecca
Well, that was a brilliant lesson I got ten out of ten. ĤĔĹĹŐ ŤĤĔŔĔ ĎĔÁŔ ĤŐŴ Well, that was a brilliant lesson I got ten out of ten. ĤĔĹĹŐ ŤĤĔŔĔ ĎĔÁŔ ĤŐŴ ĨŤŚ ĞŐĨŃĞ ŴĨŤĤ ŶŐÚ Rebecca
Mohammed navigation
Hi ms Rebecca, I’m new here. thanks for your nice and helpful video, it really works. I hope in joining here it will broaden my knowledge in english language.
mayette77
Welcome to engvid! Please explore the site to find what you need, in terms of level and specific areas of interest such as Business English, Grammar, Idioms, etc. I wish you all the best with your English.
Rebecca
Hi REBECCA “NAMASTE” your lessons are really informative and helpful to improve English. Thanks for your generous help. I hope we will get more lessons from you.. Thanks a load… I Love ya..
ankita verma
Great class Rebecca. Thanks
jairoeli
hi mrs rebecca
i want to continu my english studies
how can i do
jamal jimo
You could try the usual ways of joining an English class, working from textbooks, finding a private teacher, learning online, etc We have about 900 lessons on engvid that can help you too. Just search for your level and area of interest. I wish you all the best.
Rebecca
Many thanks, same too as my friend , I am Very glad to have your lessons again Rebecca! Thank you very much! Your lesson is very soften and strengthen !
hassouna
mam, can you help me to find out in which part of these sentences there is an error with explanation ?
1. He opposed the scheme at the first(a)
but when it was fully explained(b)
he came to our views.(c)
2. Any meaningful discussion of national
integration(a)
must take stock about the tendencies(b)
which threaten it.(c)
3. She wanted to be an actress,(a)
but her father soon(b)
nipped that idea in the bud.(c)
4. Respectfully I beg to state that(a)
I am suffering from fever(b)
for the past fortnight.(c)
5. You may have regret later(a)
if you do not start living(b)
within your mean.(c)
sonalM
Thanks i appreciate your Efforts that you support Free volunteer teacher and i understand 80 % i wish you Good Lucky and continou
Abdinasir Nor Abdullahi
Hi,Rebecca!You are very good in teaching. Thanks to you,everything is clear. I vish you the best. Thank you.
GenVikHitr
Thank you kindly for your feedback. I wish you all the best with your English.
Rebecca
Thanks, Rebecca!
Your lesson really helps me!
What about the verb fasten?
It seems fast + en but it doesn’t mean make faster, if I don’t get wrong.
Is there a reason for that?
Thank you!
Chibichi
You know that English has lots of exceptions and you just found another one! All the best!
Rebecca
Frankly, I was expecting a quick way to weld some words into my brain, because I just realised procrastination is simply bad( I know I’m a bloody fool)…
Is there a way to do so other than to learn easy inflexions which I’m already aware of?? Also, does anybody has(/have?) an idea how I would do at the academic(-)ielts if got like 9 outta// 90-100% for most of the advanced-tier mcqs on(/in) this site …?? lol I really swear those last bits that ended up grey is merely a coincident!!
cpeight
You write very well overall, but do have some mistakes in English:
Does anybody have any idea
on this site
coincidence
Please check this site: goodluckielts.com
All the best to you.
Rebecca
Good day, Rebecca!
I extremely like your lessons, it really helps to BROADEN our knowledge of English!
kazakhstan12345
Great use of the term! And doesn’t it make you feel proud to speak so well? Congratulations and all the best to you.
Rebecca
Thanks a lot!
Nastya
it’s helpful.Thank you Rebecca!
Jacksitu
You are a good teacher!!! Thank you a lot!!!
Alexsandra Barros
it is very good very easy lesson rebeca thanks!
eliegina silva costa
Dear Rebecca,
This exercise strengthens my English language mastery.
Yours sincerely.
Peter
Way to go! Congratulations on applying what you have learned so confidently. All the best to you, Peter.
Rebecca
This exercise is very confused because there some words that change in en and ed very confused well, I learn more
luis94
thanks for this video
its amazing to learned VOC
kumar925@gmail.com
Thanks for your lesson.
Cabezondelpisuerga
Thanks for your lesson! I have a question for you, if we follow the rule to add “en” to the end of a noun or an adjective to make it become a verb, but it’s not all situations we can do like that. So, we have to learn by heart these words? Are there any trick to recognise these situation? Thank for your help!!!
khicon
Hello, Rebecca! Thanks a lot for your lessons, I learn and injoy your positive :) You are an enchantress! All the best to you! :)
LuidmilaMila
Hello M.r.s Rebbeca,I have a question for you about your lesson. I could notice that various of the words that you turned up in verbs seem to be past participle verbs one time they are changed and put in context, it would be correct to say they have became or fit in some of the cases as past participle verbs or they are just converted words or maybe present tense verbs? Because for example, If I say: She whiten her teeth,that makes sense like a past participle tense. Thanks, I hope your answer.
-JP-
Rebecca your lesson is so good i learned a lot from this.. i have a question by “en” we can make an adjective or a noun a verb and by adding “ed” in the last we can use it in past tense but what about other tenses can we make past/present participles?
Amicable
Thank you for the lesson, Rebecca. I was wondering should we use s or ing for certain sentences as you informed to add ed for past tense. And it had been confirmed by the 10th question which was: You’ve been here all day. Why don’t you go home? If the situation WORSENS, I will let you know. (becomes worse). Thank you, Rebecca.
nanapuspita
Thank you a lot of,your lesson is certainly a good way to improve our English.
fatihaeng
Dear, Rebecca, could you also explain to us the rules to use ending -fy in verbs.Is it the same as using -en? In which cases we can make verbs with -fy and -en?
Thanks a lot!
Best regards.
LuidmilaMila
Very helpful trick, thank you so much Rebecca! I’m afraid I didn’t understand when I have to put “en” as prefix instead of suffix. Is there any rule about it?
Nzr1940
great , strange , and important lesson
thank you so much
I made one mistake because I did not pay attention to the spelling .
positive_learner
Very interesting lesson Rebecca. Congratulation!!!!
Leandro Cleber
Hello Rebbeca thanks for your helpful and interesting lesson that u teach us.
Mohanedseid
Rebbeca, thanks a lot for the interesting and helpful lesson.I deepened and widened my vocabulary =)
AleksandraDacenko
Thanks
Hassan.Sabaa
very useful thank you; miss
Houssem
very cool , thank you :)
Ashref
Rebbeca, thanks a lot for your lesson. I studied a lot from you.
Pham Hong Nam
Thank you!
dawdbc
Hi, thanks a lot . 10/10.
Soei
Thanks dear
guneljav
Hi, this helped me sooooooo much. Thank you!
9/10
danielhuynh804
Very helpful topic. Thank you very much !
Tirelav
Rebbeca, thanks a lot for your lesson. I studied a lot from you.
abalad
Dera Prof, I do like your teaching. Thank you. H
Briklend Handersson
I got 100 out of 100. H
Briklend Handersson
Thank you Rebecca. I really like this lessen. Give us some more other words like this.
Sincerely yours
Tammyjang1
I’m first time in this site. But I adopted here easily. Rebecca thank a lot for you lessons. There are very useful for me.
Aysultn
Another great lesson as usual. Thank you, teacher!
Lfabian2013
Got 100 on the test, yay!
Manuelcipote
Thanks for this great video! :)
nilaygorguc
8/10
ann ann
thanks for the lesson…
@ghani32
hello,I didn’T know this technique and thanks to you, now I am better, my knowledge broadened. I love this website and you guys..
And I wonder that is there any tips about when we can’t use this technique? a kind of rule?
EvrenErdem
Thank you very much Rebecca!
Mustafa
Thank you.
alchemistbd
Thank you. I am looking a native English speaker. If some one interested to talk with over Skype, please feel free to add me in your Skype list: my Skype id : alchemistbd
alchemistbd
Hi Rebecca, you cannot imagine how wonderful your lesson was to me, I enjoyed it a lot, thank you so much.
Maliban
Thank you, Rebecca~~ It’s very helpful!!!
robertlee
thank you so much Rebecca. It’s a very useful for me being an English lesson beginner.
danny perez
very good lesson
marinalopez
I absolutely loved the lesson, thanks a million.
Edyal
Thank you, Rebecca)
Pobeda
Thank you Rebecca ???
Wasmya
Thanks Rebecca! Yours lessons are very interesting and useful!
cecilia.dario
worsens? Shouldn’t be worsen?
josevestias
Hi Rebecca, I really love the way you teach, my congrats to you, you are such an amazing teacher! About this lesson I’m wondering if it’s ok to use those verbs in gerunds, I would thanks your answering.
JessicaDamelvis
You are really an angel, nothing more, nothing less.
However, I couldn’t find the word “greaten” in any dictionary. That apart, this has boosted my confidence to a cosmic level.( please do reply to me whether my sentence structure is correct. :) )
rohithtvr
thank you so much for the lesson <3
brahimichaima
your lesion is so useful, thank you so much!
nguyenlongbien
Thanks Rebecca. You teache in a nice way. All your lessons are quite enjoyable.
Kenyaponciano
Thank You So Much Rebecca. I got 100 again. Interesting Understood and got clarifications as well.
Syed Ameer
Very helpful~ I will keep in my mind. Thanks Rebecca.
Munsook
hello Rebbeca, thanks for your efforts and advices it helps alot. But I have this feeling about this lesson that using the (en) is “weaken” the language some time . Is it ok o use it in writing articles in TOEFL esseys’ ??
thanks again.
soosle
Thank so much, Rebecca! I have really enjoyed your lesson today. Wish all the best to you and merry christmas!
PCThinh
Tkanks again and again
teka
Thank you Mam,,
for the first time i login this site and watched your vedio then complete the quize, got 100% correct answer.
Thank you again
raihan92
Is really helpfull for my. Thank R.
jesuherc
Thank a lot for this lesson that lengthened my vocabulary as it an eve of my English learning..
Hasitha Perera
Got 10/10.
However, Question:
Usually, when there is one verb present already we use grand after a TO. For example, “she used cold cream to softening her hand.” If I write ‘she used cold cream to soften then hand” would that be grammatically correct?
I also find difficult while writing letters:
“Looking forward to hear/hearing from you.”…what to chose?”
Kindly help. Thanks.
drkbashok
I thank you again for another wonderfully explained
subject. You are a great teacher.
I think I have widened my vocabulary thanks to your
amazing teaching skills.
I really love the English language.And the more
I learn it the more I realize the less I know about it.
I got 10/10,thanks to your proficient and friendly
explanation.
Many thanks,again, Rebecca.
Sonia1234
When the weather get worsened, the airplane crew asked the passangers to tighten the belt. However my daughter just so busy to sharpened her pensil :)
wiwik junus ismail
10 out of 10 amazing lesson professor thank you .
Amir Loucif
fantastic lesson
aminah adnan
thanks it was very helpful
@jmendez07
I clearened some doubts with your wonderful lesson, god bless you dear teacher.
fernando triana
I got 10/10 in the quiz.
It was a very useful lesson.
Thanks teacher.
Senugi
Thank you Rebecca
Tyrion
Thank you Rebecca, you are doing an impeccable job here.
Mfon
Thank you Rebecca!
cokasonja
awesome , thank you so much
Hani@71
Nice lesson
Shkruallah175@gmail.com
Amazing!!!
Sawsan
Awesome, Rebecca!!! Thank you very much!! :D
cynthiaaoz
Thanks for your effort. we got this lesson.see you in other lesson
najdorf
It was very useful lesson ..I learned a lot :) Thank You Very Much
Phenom2255
You got 9 correct out of 10.
thank you..
M kartal
Thanks Rebecca. This was so informative.
Gigibeliz
Thx Rebecca 10/10 PERFECT!!!
SherlyYT
9 out 10. Need to work a lot. Thanks Rebecca
calmram8
What’s different between +en and be+ing. E.g. She sharpened her pencil and She is sharping hers pencil.
Manchun
Thank you, Rebecca!
I have not expected to find so very simple way to widen my vocabulary.
Abay1967
Thanks Rebecca!
Alex-1956
thank you
anhvnsg
Hi Rebecca im new in this page. I become interested because of your speak like a manager lessons. I learned a lot. You are a good teacher.
gatchalianmariacorazon@gmail.com
It’s a great way to quiken studys. Thanks))
Saliery331
Thank you for all these lessons, bye,I’ll see you soon
DomenicoFantauzzi
Thanks to you 10/10
MehmetCan26
Hi Rebecca,
I think in question 9 the right answer should be sickens not sicken. As the speaker seems to be talking about routine or what usually happens when he watches the horror movies? Could you please enlighten it a bit?
mhameed
Top! A very interesting lesson.
meme7dv
thank you very much!10/10
iren.uzhhorod
Thanks Rebecca. I`m really enjoying your lessons and you are very talented in delivering your ideas.
mynt
In the beginning, I frighten about this test. I deepen my knowledge about how to broaden my vocabulary. It saddened myself, I realised that I needed to look up my Diccionario some adjectives and nouns. Now I have strengthened my English skills in 10 minutes. I need to say “Thank you very much”, Rebecca.
Mayuyita
Thank you so much, Rebecca, your lesson is so helpful and very interesting
Maanoulaa
Thank you, Rebeca,
Your lessons are helping me a lot with my work. I like the way you explain and speak.
jannet2030
Waw ! This lesson was a big surpise ! Thank you!
elenasigabriel
Sorry ! I wanted to say ,, surprise,,:)
elenasigabriel
Thank you for sharing this video with us!
Jose Carlos Campos
Thanks
Faisal
I got 8 .very useful lesson.I want to become fluent in English pl give me advice.
harmeet0801
Good day
i am happy today i have come to knew about this english learning platform
i would like to thank you Ms Rebbeca Mam for making such a video on verbs
i would like to know how to conclude the word should end with ed or en based on tense
could you please explain with an examples
awaiting for your reply
Shabnam banu
10/10
i am your big fan from Kazakstan 24Sept2021
thank you for perfect presentation
Jannyl
Thank you for your interesting presentation.
Dongyu
thanks you for the lesson
oussrdm
thank you
oussrdm
are all the en-verbs regular?
tbr1
I got 10/10.
Thank you!
lprnl
Thanks a lot, Rebecca! You are amazing.(Azores Islands, 22Aug2023);
PFig
that was an amazing course. you’re really the best teacher. I think that will be my turning point to improve my language and my understanding. thank you for the effort. god bless you
soufiane farik
Wow, this lesson was really hard (especially pronunciation part) but also interesting. Need to rewatch it in the future a few more times. Thank you Rebecca for all your efforts.
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199 COMMENTS
Very glad to have your lesson again Rebecca! Thank you very much! Your lesson is very interesting!
Yep! I agree with you,Rebecca’s lessons are engaging.
Affixes are excellent tools for expanding our vocabulary Rebecca, no doubt about it. But as you mentioned not all the words follow the same pattern. So, how do we know when to use a given suffix -say “-ment”- in order to change the function of the word and its meaning?
Very useful tips to increase our vocabulary Rebecca; thanks for sharing all this with us.
So glad you found the lesson useful. We need all the tricks and tips we can get to learn more effectively. All the best to you.
Interesting and useful! Thank you, Rebecca :)
YEAH Rebecca..the same haircut..i like it
Amazing lesson, Rebbeca!! Extremely helpul!! I would like to take the opportunity to express my enormous gratitude to you extended to all of teachers of the Engvid for the outstanding job. Your lessons have been more than useful for me since I got in America few weeks ago. For all THANK YOU KINDLY!!! Jose.
Thank you, Jose, for your warm words. I am very glad to know our lessons have helped you. You communicate very well and on behalf of everyone at engvid, I wish you all the best.
Your reply brought happiness to my day, dear Rebecca! Thank you very much! I’m living in Portland, OR for two months now, and I keep learning with the lessons of Engvid team — really really helpful!
Warm greetings.
Jose.
Hi Rebecca,
I’d like to ask a question on grammar. In my message above I wrote that “I’m living…” Since I’ve refered to certain period, what is the grammaticaly right form:
“I am living for two months now”
“I have lived for two months now”
“I have been living for two months now”
Neither?
I’ll appreciate your precious answer.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Jose.
“I’ve been living in xxx for yyy months and…” –> Duration, still happening
“I have been living in xxx since September” –> Starting point
Thanks Rebecca!
This was another great lesson from you which helped me a lot. My English speaking is strengthen every day because of you all.
thank you for new words
YES, mam Rebecca mam as you said in the video while teaching it’s strange..
Yes It’s strange for me so we have to understand this short of word and have to comfortable with the word sing with others And everyone have to follow this pattern as Ms Rebecca told us and most significant also who is learning and improving English..
Thanks Rebecca! It’s very easy and fun)
thanks for your this nice and really helpful video and it worked out. you have really shortened my english learning time, haven’t you Rubecca? :P :)
Thank you, Ahad. It’s always my goal to teach the tricks and shortcuts that allow people to learn more quickly and confidently. SO glad the lesson helped you. I wish you all the best.
Hello Rebecca! Thank you for the lesson! You are so positive, I love to learn English watching videos of yours.
Aww…thanks, that’s very kind of you. I believe we are all teachers and learners in one way or the other and the best way to live in this world is to be warm and encouraging towards each other. My best wishes to you, Anyur1984.
Thank you very much Rebecca!!!I didn´t know how easy it could be to sound smarter!!!
Hope to see you again soon in another interesting lesson like this ;)
Well, there you go! You got the point! Thanks for your feedback and all the best, Knopfler86.
Thanks very much! I didnt’t know that it can be so easy.Very good lesson. :)
Yes, I am so glad you enjoyed the vocabulary hack. I plan to record more shortcuts like these to shorten people’s learning time and deepen their understanding! My best wishes to you.
Thank you very much, Rebecca. It is a very useful lesson! I got 100! Bye!
Thanks you Rebbecca, Your lesson is so helpful with me, i study a lot from you. Hope can see your new lesson soon. thanks again
thanks Rebecca:)
Mrs. Rebecca,
What is the difference in meaning of these adjectives ending in -ing if they come after sense verbs with people?
Your boss sounds interesting.
He looks boring.
You sound amazing.
They seem amusing.
She sounds exhausting.
(interested/interesting)
(bored/boring)
(amazed/amazing)
(annoyed/annoying)
(excited/exciting)
Excuse me, Fahdbensalman! About interested/interesting, according to the Learnersdictionary, “Interested is an adjective that describes a person or people who like something and want to know more about it, as in these examples:
The listeners were all very interested in the lecture. (interested describes the listeners)”.
Also, I would like to add: the ‘ed’ ending indicates the person or thing that suffers the action, and the ‘ing’ one indicates the person or thing that causes the action; for instance, a boring boss (he causes something annoying), and a bored boss (somebody else caused something boring to the boss).
I hope that it will help you.
See you.
Fahdbensalman, please check my older lesson on this subject:
https://www.engvid.com/english-grammar-bored-boring/
The video will answer your question.
Edinho, thanks so much for taking the time to help out so kindly and knowledgeably.
-ed adjectives
Adjectives that end ‘-ed’ describe emotions – they tell us how people feel about something.
I was very bored in the maths lesson. I almost fell asleep.
He was surprised to see Helen. She’d told him she was going to Australia.
Feeling tired and depressed, he went to bed.
-ing adjectives
Adjectives that end ‘-ing’ describe the thing that causes the emotion – a boring lesson makes you feel bored.
Have you seen that film? It’s absolutely terrifying.
I could listen to him for hours. He’s one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met.
I can’t eat this! It’s disgusting! What is it?
Remember that people can be boring but only if they make other people feel bored.
He talks about the weather for hours. He’s so boring.
NOT I was very boring at the party so I went home.
probably this isn’t my level, I didn’t understand too good, but I have 10 out of 10)
sorry for my mistakes…
work more Gulzar ….. I’m sure you will be successly
NICE JOB REBECCA.
Thank you very much for your lesson.it’s really I know and I got 9 out of 10
Great! Very usefull! Thanks a lot!
Great lesson ! Thank you Rebecca !
This lesson helps us a lot for expanding our vocabulary. Thank you so much, Rebecca.
10/10 Thank you for the lesson, Rebecca! You are the best!
Amazing lesson..
I got 9/10
Thanks Rebecca. This was a very usefull lesson, I learned a lot. I helped me to widen my vocabulary.
Great! Then the lesson achieved its goal. Thanks for your feedback and remember that useful is spelled with one l, as are the words beautiful, helpful, etc. All the best.
Thank you Rebecca. For your lesson is very useful.
thank you, Rebecca! You’re a great teacher! 100%
Well, you must be a great student. That’s all I can say! Thanks, and my best wishes to you.
thanks teacher rebeca i got 9.
Thank you Rebecca for the lesson.It is quite interesting .I haven’t know this pattern before ,although the form seems very natural.It helps to shorten the speech and it will sound more fluently.Thank you.
Thanks; glad you found this vocabulary hack useful. I wish you all the best.
thank you Becca
Thanks, Rebecca!
Doesn’t this set of verbs reflect German origis of English?
Thanks a lot !!!!
Thanks a lot, Rebecca! You’ve just expanded my vocabulary.
Thank you so much for your impressive lesson.But if you do not mind i want to you to make a lesson for me.
The lesson about passive voice “A movie produced by Hollywood actor Brad Pitt” I know when we use passive voice we have to use a helping verp(am,is are,was,were,has,have)but in above example why we dont need?
Thank you..
Thanks for your feedback. Please check some of our lessons on the passive voice:
https://www.engvid.com/the-passive-when-why-and-how-to-use-it/
https://www.engvid.com/english-grammar-passive-introduction/
https://www.engvid.com/easy-introduction-to-passive/
All the best with your English.
Is “sickens” the correct answer in the 9th question? By the analogy with the 10th question.
Thanks to each of you for your feedback. So glad the lesson helped you.
Please check the new resource on this vocabulary hack:
https://www.engvid.com/english-resource/vocabulary-hack-verbs-ending-with-en/
You can download and print it out for free. All the best!
Thanks for your consideration.You always make it great.I have watched the lesson then I did the quiz and I got 10 correct out of 10.In additional I have taken a note-write down the new words.
So helpful for better understanding while watching a movie or listening a music and etc.
I appreciate you
Demis Roussos ( lyrcs music name is Rebecca) :
you help us to your star,it shines right away wherever you are
Rebecca,let your mind no more over such darkening your door.”darkening” I found out a word which it belongs our topic.
what a fantastic lesson. Thanks rebecca!!!
I love you
Hello nice to with your lessons
Thanks, Rebecca!
This lesson deepened my Englush with nice and easy way!☺
9/10 Thanks Rebecca! =D
It is amazing lesson and amazing teacher. Rebecca has strengthened my English knowledge.
Wow, how wonderful that you could apply the vocabulary hack right away in such a powerful way. Congratulations and all the best to you.
Well, that was a brilliant lesson I got ten out of ten. ĤĔĹĹŐ ŤĤĔŔĔ ĎĔÁŔ ĤŐŴ Well, that was a brilliant lesson I got ten out of ten. ĤĔĹĹŐ ŤĤĔŔĔ ĎĔÁŔ ĤŐŴ ĨŤŚ ĞŐĨŃĞ ŴĨŤĤ ŶŐÚ Rebecca
Hi ms Rebecca, I’m new here. thanks for your nice and helpful video, it really works. I hope in joining here it will broaden my knowledge in english language.
Welcome to engvid! Please explore the site to find what you need, in terms of level and specific areas of interest such as Business English, Grammar, Idioms, etc. I wish you all the best with your English.
Hi REBECCA “NAMASTE” your lessons are really informative and helpful to improve English. Thanks for your generous help. I hope we will get more lessons from you.. Thanks a load… I Love ya..
Great class Rebecca. Thanks
hi mrs rebecca
i want to continu my english studies
how can i do
You could try the usual ways of joining an English class, working from textbooks, finding a private teacher, learning online, etc We have about 900 lessons on engvid that can help you too. Just search for your level and area of interest. I wish you all the best.
Many thanks, same too as my friend , I am Very glad to have your lessons again Rebecca! Thank you very much! Your lesson is very soften and strengthen !
mam, can you help me to find out in which part of these sentences there is an error with explanation ?
1. He opposed the scheme at the first(a)
but when it was fully explained(b)
he came to our views.(c)
2. Any meaningful discussion of national
integration(a)
must take stock about the tendencies(b)
which threaten it.(c)
3. She wanted to be an actress,(a)
but her father soon(b)
nipped that idea in the bud.(c)
4. Respectfully I beg to state that(a)
I am suffering from fever(b)
for the past fortnight.(c)
5. You may have regret later(a)
if you do not start living(b)
within your mean.(c)
Thanks i appreciate your Efforts that you support Free volunteer teacher and i understand 80 % i wish you Good Lucky and continou
Hi,Rebecca!You are very good in teaching. Thanks to you,everything is clear. I vish you the best. Thank you.
Thank you kindly for your feedback. I wish you all the best with your English.
Thanks, Rebecca!
Your lesson really helps me!
What about the verb fasten?
It seems fast + en but it doesn’t mean make faster, if I don’t get wrong.
Is there a reason for that?
Thank you!
You know that English has lots of exceptions and you just found another one! All the best!
Frankly, I was expecting a quick way to weld some words into my brain, because I just realised procrastination is simply bad( I know I’m a bloody fool)…
Is there a way to do so other than to learn easy inflexions which I’m already aware of?? Also, does anybody has(/have?) an idea how I would do at the academic(-)ielts if got like 9 outta// 90-100% for most of the advanced-tier mcqs on(/in) this site …?? lol I really swear those last bits that ended up grey is merely a coincident!!
You write very well overall, but do have some mistakes in English:
Does anybody have any idea
on this site
coincidence
Please check this site: goodluckielts.com
All the best to you.
Good day, Rebecca!
I extremely like your lessons, it really helps to BROADEN our knowledge of English!
Great use of the term! And doesn’t it make you feel proud to speak so well? Congratulations and all the best to you.
Thanks a lot!
it’s helpful.Thank you Rebecca!
You are a good teacher!!! Thank you a lot!!!
it is very good very easy lesson rebeca thanks!
Dear Rebecca,
This exercise strengthens my English language mastery.
Yours sincerely.
Way to go! Congratulations on applying what you have learned so confidently. All the best to you, Peter.
This exercise is very confused because there some words that change in en and ed very confused well, I learn more
thanks for this video
its amazing to learned VOC
Thanks for your lesson.
Thanks for your lesson! I have a question for you, if we follow the rule to add “en” to the end of a noun or an adjective to make it become a verb, but it’s not all situations we can do like that. So, we have to learn by heart these words? Are there any trick to recognise these situation? Thank for your help!!!
Hello, Rebecca! Thanks a lot for your lessons, I learn and injoy your positive :) You are an enchantress! All the best to you! :)
Hello M.r.s Rebbeca,I have a question for you about your lesson. I could notice that various of the words that you turned up in verbs seem to be past participle verbs one time they are changed and put in context, it would be correct to say they have became or fit in some of the cases as past participle verbs or they are just converted words or maybe present tense verbs? Because for example, If I say: She whiten her teeth,that makes sense like a past participle tense. Thanks, I hope your answer.
Rebecca your lesson is so good i learned a lot from this.. i have a question by “en” we can make an adjective or a noun a verb and by adding “ed” in the last we can use it in past tense but what about other tenses can we make past/present participles?
Thank you for the lesson, Rebecca. I was wondering should we use s or ing for certain sentences as you informed to add ed for past tense. And it had been confirmed by the 10th question which was: You’ve been here all day. Why don’t you go home? If the situation WORSENS, I will let you know. (becomes worse). Thank you, Rebecca.
Thank you a lot of,your lesson is certainly a good way to improve our English.
Dear, Rebecca, could you also explain to us the rules to use ending -fy in verbs.Is it the same as using -en? In which cases we can make verbs with -fy and -en?
Thanks a lot!
Best regards.
Very helpful trick, thank you so much Rebecca! I’m afraid I didn’t understand when I have to put “en” as prefix instead of suffix. Is there any rule about it?
great , strange , and important lesson
thank you so much
I made one mistake because I did not pay attention to the spelling .
Very interesting lesson Rebecca. Congratulation!!!!
Hello Rebbeca thanks for your helpful and interesting lesson that u teach us.
Rebbeca, thanks a lot for the interesting and helpful lesson.I deepened and widened my vocabulary =)
Thanks
very useful thank you; miss
very cool , thank you :)
Rebbeca, thanks a lot for your lesson. I studied a lot from you.
Thank you!
Hi, thanks a lot . 10/10.
Thanks dear
Hi, this helped me sooooooo much. Thank you!
9/10
Very helpful topic. Thank you very much !
Rebbeca, thanks a lot for your lesson. I studied a lot from you.
Dera Prof, I do like your teaching. Thank you. H
I got 100 out of 100. H
Thank you Rebecca. I really like this lessen. Give us some more other words like this.
Sincerely yours
I’m first time in this site. But I adopted here easily. Rebecca thank a lot for you lessons. There are very useful for me.
Another great lesson as usual. Thank you, teacher!
Got 100 on the test, yay!
Thanks for this great video! :)
8/10
thanks for the lesson…
hello,I didn’T know this technique and thanks to you, now I am better, my knowledge broadened. I love this website and you guys..
And I wonder that is there any tips about when we can’t use this technique? a kind of rule?
Thank you very much Rebecca!
Thank you.
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Hi Rebecca, you cannot imagine how wonderful your lesson was to me, I enjoyed it a lot, thank you so much.
Thank you, Rebecca~~ It’s very helpful!!!
thank you so much Rebecca. It’s a very useful for me being an English lesson beginner.
very good lesson
I absolutely loved the lesson, thanks a million.
Thank you, Rebecca)
Thank you Rebecca ???
Thanks Rebecca! Yours lessons are very interesting and useful!
worsens? Shouldn’t be worsen?
Hi Rebecca, I really love the way you teach, my congrats to you, you are such an amazing teacher! About this lesson I’m wondering if it’s ok to use those verbs in gerunds, I would thanks your answering.
You are really an angel, nothing more, nothing less.
However, I couldn’t find the word “greaten” in any dictionary. That apart, this has boosted my confidence to a cosmic level.( please do reply to me whether my sentence structure is correct. :) )
thank you so much for the lesson <3
your lesion is so useful, thank you so much!
Thanks Rebecca. You teache in a nice way. All your lessons are quite enjoyable.
Thank You So Much Rebecca. I got 100 again. Interesting Understood and got clarifications as well.
Very helpful~ I will keep in my mind. Thanks Rebecca.
hello Rebbeca, thanks for your efforts and advices it helps alot. But I have this feeling about this lesson that using the (en) is “weaken” the language some time . Is it ok o use it in writing articles in TOEFL esseys’ ??
thanks again.
Thank so much, Rebecca! I have really enjoyed your lesson today. Wish all the best to you and merry christmas!
Tkanks again and again
Thank you Mam,,
for the first time i login this site and watched your vedio then complete the quize, got 100% correct answer.
Thank you again
Is really helpfull for my. Thank R.
Thank a lot for this lesson that lengthened my vocabulary as it an eve of my English learning..
Got 10/10.
However, Question:
Usually, when there is one verb present already we use grand after a TO. For example, “she used cold cream to softening her hand.” If I write ‘she used cold cream to soften then hand” would that be grammatically correct?
I also find difficult while writing letters:
“Looking forward to hear/hearing from you.”…what to chose?”
Kindly help. Thanks.
I thank you again for another wonderfully explained
subject. You are a great teacher.
I think I have widened my vocabulary thanks to your
amazing teaching skills.
I really love the English language.And the more
I learn it the more I realize the less I know about it.
I got 10/10,thanks to your proficient and friendly
explanation.
Many thanks,again, Rebecca.
When the weather get worsened, the airplane crew asked the passangers to tighten the belt. However my daughter just so busy to sharpened her pensil :)
10 out of 10 amazing lesson professor thank you .
fantastic lesson
thanks it was very helpful
I clearened some doubts with your wonderful lesson, god bless you dear teacher.
I got 10/10 in the quiz.
It was a very useful lesson.
Thanks teacher.
Thank you Rebecca
Thank you Rebecca, you are doing an impeccable job here.
Thank you Rebecca!
awesome , thank you so much
Nice lesson
Amazing!!!
Awesome, Rebecca!!! Thank you very much!! :D
Thanks for your effort. we got this lesson.see you in other lesson
It was very useful lesson ..I learned a lot :) Thank You Very Much
You got 9 correct out of 10.
thank you..
Thanks Rebecca. This was so informative.
Thx Rebecca 10/10 PERFECT!!!
9 out 10. Need to work a lot. Thanks Rebecca
What’s different between +en and be+ing. E.g. She sharpened her pencil and She is sharping hers pencil.
Thank you, Rebecca!
I have not expected to find so very simple way to widen my vocabulary.
Thanks Rebecca!
thank you
Hi Rebecca im new in this page. I become interested because of your speak like a manager lessons. I learned a lot. You are a good teacher.
It’s a great way to quiken studys. Thanks))
Thank you for all these lessons, bye,I’ll see you soon
Thanks to you 10/10
Hi Rebecca,
I think in question 9 the right answer should be sickens not sicken. As the speaker seems to be talking about routine or what usually happens when he watches the horror movies? Could you please enlighten it a bit?
Top! A very interesting lesson.
thank you very much!10/10
Thanks Rebecca. I`m really enjoying your lessons and you are very talented in delivering your ideas.
In the beginning, I frighten about this test. I deepen my knowledge about how to broaden my vocabulary. It saddened myself, I realised that I needed to look up my Diccionario some adjectives and nouns. Now I have strengthened my English skills in 10 minutes. I need to say “Thank you very much”, Rebecca.
Thank you so much, Rebecca, your lesson is so helpful and very interesting
Thank you, Rebeca,
Your lessons are helping me a lot with my work. I like the way you explain and speak.
Waw ! This lesson was a big surpise ! Thank you!
Sorry ! I wanted to say ,, surprise,,:)
Thank you for sharing this video with us!
Thanks
I got 8 .very useful lesson.I want to become fluent in English pl give me advice.
Good day
i am happy today i have come to knew about this english learning platform
i would like to thank you Ms Rebbeca Mam for making such a video on verbs
i would like to know how to conclude the word should end with ed or en based on tense
could you please explain with an examples
awaiting for your reply
10/10
i am your big fan from Kazakstan 24Sept2021
thank you for perfect presentation
Thank you for your interesting presentation.
thanks you for the lesson
thank you
are all the en-verbs regular?
I got 10/10.
Thank you!
Thanks a lot, Rebecca! You are amazing.(Azores Islands, 22Aug2023);
that was an amazing course. you’re really the best teacher. I think that will be my turning point to improve my language and my understanding. thank you for the effort. god bless you
Wow, this lesson was really hard (especially pronunciation part) but also interesting. Need to rewatch it in the future a few more times. Thank you Rebecca for all your efforts.