Why do some words in the simple present end in -ed
I am helping two students with their English. They asked me why there is -ed at the end of some words in the simple present tense, e.g.
Are you married?
He is annoyed.
I am worried.
I wasn't sure how to answer this.
Those are adjectives and not verbs, in your cases. Many -ed past participles can also be used as adjectives.
married, severed, disembodied, averted, worried, shocked, injured, vandalized, greyed out, redacted, censored, pampered, allied, contrived,
and so on.