amused ,amusing
Hello Eveyone
I am getting confused of two sentences below:
I have an amused experience.
I have an amusing experience.
Which is correct?
Why?
Thanks very much in advance
"I have an amusing experience" is correct. While both amused and amusing are adjectives, "amused" describes a feeling and "amusing" describes something causing amusement. So you can say:
I was amused by the monkey.
The monkey was amusing.
I was amused by the experience.
The experience was amusing.
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Things can't be amusED, things can't only be amusING for someone.
People can be both amusED by someone or something and amusING for other people.
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The more correct answer is "amusing", but the verb tense is wrong because this phrase is often used to start a story which started and ended in the past. Therefore the best answer is in the past perfect, "I have had an amusing experience".
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