Banned for catfishing???

[Bobo]

Totally incorrect my wonderful mod of Oz.
Many words ending in "ing" can be and are used as adjectives.
Examples.....
A weakening hurricane
A deafening noise
A circling shark
and thousands more.
But you did get one thing correct...."Kevin is a bully". Now that is totally accurate.

Actually no, most of those are adverbs.

 

[Samsmellsofapplejuice]

Actually no, most of those are adverbs.

Actually, they are indeed adjectives, adverbs usually add to or describe verbs (a.k.a actions. for example "he was walking quickly").
the first sentence used as an example has a present participle.
the second one is an adjective (its describing the voice)
and so is the last one (it describes the shark)
many words ending with -ing can indeed be used as adjectives but "to bully" or "bully" is not one of those words.
(well you could use it as one since english doesn't have clear-cut grammar rules due to not having a universal organisation prescribing its grammar but you know).
tl;dr:
adverbs are words describing an action.
adjectives describe a subject (a noun or pronoun).

note: quick grammar lesson, a gerund acts as a noun, a present participle acts as a verb/adjective.
they both end in -ing and come from verbs but have different functions.

 

[Advocate]

Bro this forum needs closing instead of teaching English

 

[Roma]

lol