Confidence and Confident

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Amalik

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Hi, I wrote an emil earlier this morning and I got confused between:

"teaching gives me confident"
or
"teaching gives me confidence"

Which one of the above is more accurate and why?

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Amalik
 

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'Gives me confidence' and 'makes me confident' should be grammatical.

Not a teacher.
 

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Context?
 

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Whatever the context "gives me confident" is incorrect.
 

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:up: There's no mystery: 'confident' is an adjective and 'confidence' is a noun. I know some students think they can get by without knowing about word classes (or 'parts of speech' as we used to call them), but they're wrong. ;-)

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:up: There's no mystery: 'confident' is an adjective and 'confidence' is a noun.
Hello b—and I hope you are OK.

Couldn't you please supply us a meaningful utterance in which the word confident in gives me confident can be followed by a noun?
 

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Odessa Dawn gave me a confident smile.:-D
 

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:up: That example's fine, as long as you remember that a confident smile is an indicator of (perhaps misplaced ;-)) confidence. The smiler feels confident. A confident smile isn't one that induces confidence (not necessarily anyway - there's a 'virtuous circle' whereby a student, seeing the teacher's confident smile in their ability, feels confident).

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