![]() When we're asked to give an adjective, we may likely go for words like beautiful, good, bad, or happy. However, adjectives ending in -ing and -ed are just as commonly used in everyday language and they are often a source of confusion among English learners. For example, we have the pair interesting versus interested, or disappointing versus disappointed, and a very commonly confused pair, bored and boring. Sometimes you might hear somebody say, “I’m boring” but what they actually mean is “I’m bored”. He or she is feeling bored. So first, let’s understand the difference between -ing adjectives and -ed adjectives.
Let’s have more examples for –ing adjectives:
Now let’s try to take a look at two sentences with errors regarding adjectives ending in –ing or –ed. 1. I'm interesting to know how you accomplished that.
Now that we’ve talked about when to use –ing and –ed adjectives correctly, let’s have more exercises! I will explain the answers to the first two items in this exercise, but you’ll have to answer the rest. Then you can check your answers at the end of this article. 1. The professor was [ annoyed/annoying ] with the students who did not follow her safety instructions.
2. My grades were really [ disappointed/disappointing ] last semester so I vowed to work harder this term.
3. The sudden increase in the number of infections is [ worried/worrying ]. 4. She got [ worried/worrying ] when the team did not call her for a few days. 5. Jessie is just not [ interested/interesting] in sci-fi movies. She prefers romantic comedies. 6. It was my first time to experience such a strong earthquake. It was [ terrified/terrifying ]. 7. We were all [ surprised/surprising ] when she said she was quitting her job. 8. I had high expectations for this movie and I was not [disappointed/disappointing ]. 9. The test was quite difficult. It’s [ amazed/amazing ] that I passed at all. 10. The plot twists in the story are quite [ confused/confusing ]. 11. That horror movie shows a lot of [ frightened/ frightening ] scenes. 12. After checking the quality of the products, I was quite [ satisfied/ satisfying ] with them. 13. It’s my first time to travel abroad so I’m really [ excited/exciting ]. 14. My friend likes to try exotic and weird foods that some might find [ disgusted/disgusting ]. 15. On my second week just staying at home, I started to get [bored/boring]. 16. I liked the video but the soundtrack was a bit [ irritated/irritating ]. 17. His habit of being late to meetings is really [ annoyed/annoying ]. 18. I just had a very [ satisfied/satisfying ] meal at the restaurant you recommended. 19. I think this color combination is very [ pleased/pleasing ] to the eye. 20. She gave incomplete instructions so now I’m a little [ confused/confusing ]. That’s the end of our drills on adjectives ending with –ing and –ed. I really hope you found these exercises useful. As you may know, when it comes to correct grammar, you have to train your ear to listen for the correct patterns and word usage so you may want to do the drills a couple of times until you get all the answers correctly. Answers: 3. worrying 4. worried 5. interested 6. terrifying 7. surprised 8. disappointed 9. amazing 10. confusing 11. frightening 12. satisfied 13. excited 14. disgusting 15. bored 16. irritating 17. annoying 18. satisfying 19. pleasing 20. confused
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