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Passive voice and participles

Past participles are also used in all passive voice sentences. To quickly review the passive voice structure:
Passive Subject + be (conjugated) + past participle
Present passive - Tom was taught by Frankie.
Past passive - My car was made in Germany.

Participles used as adjectives

Participles can also be used as adjectives to describe nouns. The difference between the present participle and the past participle can make quite a difference in meaning:
The bored man went to sleep during the discussion.
The boring man put other people to sleep during the discussion.
In the first sentence, the past participle 'bored' is used to mean that the man himself was bored; in the second sentence the present participle 'boring' is used to mean that the man was boring to others.
The past participle is used as a passive adjective. The passive adjective expresses how someone feels. 
Any interested student should apply in the office. 
The overly excited boys need to calm down!
The present participle is used as an active adjective.
The active adjective describes the effect on people or things:
He's an interesting professor. I'd like to take a class with him. 
She's a boring speaker.