ADJECTIVES EXPRESSING FEELINGS

~ing (present participle) vs ~ed (past participle)

~ing shows who or what causes the feeling ~ed shows who or what ‘has’ or experiences the feeling
I am boring (active) I am bored (passive)

Exercise A
Underline the participles in the following sentences. Write if they Present or Past.

1. Singing birds are shown in the Annual Bird Show in our town. ______

2. The galloping horse scared the child. ______

3. The lorry was carrying stolen goods. ______

4. Rolling stones gather no moss. ______

5. Be careful with all that broken glass! ______

6. Barking dogs are not always dangerous. ______

7. I don’t want that burnt toast. ______

8. It was the unknown factors that made the problem difficult. ______

9. A swinging gate kept me awake all night. ______

10. The climber was found lost and half-frozen two days later. _______

11. This job is tiring. It isn’t well paid for such effort. ______

12. At the end of the day I feel so tired that I have to go to bed early. ______

13. Those children are so annoying! Always asking stupid questions. ______

14. Don’t be frightened. My dog doesn’t bite. ______

15. everybody was excited preparing the things for the trip. ______

16. He was so shocked after the accident he couldn’t speak. ______

17. He was so rude and disgusting that nobody wanted to go out with him. ______

18. I didn’t like the film. It was boring. I almost fell asleep. ______

19. If the children are bored. Why don’t you take them to the park? ______

20. Isn’t it embarrassing the way he behaves? ______

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Exercise B
Write either the present or the past participle of the verbs in brackets:

1.- Jane says that her job is ..............., but she is always ............. with everything
she does. (BORE)

2.- Did you meet anyone ............... at the party?

You know I’m not ............... in making new friends. (INTEREST)

3.- Isn’t it ............... how she speaks English! She’s only been learning it for two
months.
Well, I’m not ............... at all. She’s very clever. (SURPRISE)

4.- It’s been raining all day. I hate this weather. It’s really ...............
Yes, such weather makes everybody ................ (DEPRESS)

5.- Ann is going to America next month. She’s never been there. She’s really ...........
about going. It’ll be an ................ experience for her. (EXCITE)

6.- Diana teaches young children. It’s a hard job. She often finds her job ...............
At the end of the day’s work she’s often .................. (EXHAUST)

7.- We were all ................ when we heard about the disaster. It must have been a
..................... experience for the victims. (HORRIFY)

8.- It’s sometimes ................. when you have to ask people for money.
Is it? Well, I never feel ............. about that. (EMBARRASS)

9.- After seeing the scenes everyone was ...................

Yes, it was a very .................... sight. (SHOCK)

10.- I had never expected to be offered the job. I was really ........... when they told
me.
It isn’t so ................. You really deserved to be chosen. You’ve got a lot of
qualifications. (AMAZE)

11.- I don’t know what they were cooking, but the smell was ................
You would be more ................. if you had to eat it. (DISGUST)

12.- I didn’t understand what the message meant. I was so ................

Yes, the words were strange and ................. (CONFUSE)

13.- Aren’t those tigers ...............?

No, I don’t think so. Actually I’m not ............. of any animals at all. (FRIGHTEN)

14.- You look ............

Yes, something very .............. has just happened to me. (AMUSE)

15.- The firm is in a very .............. situation.

Yes, all the members of the management are rather ................. (WORRY)

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Exercise C
Choose either a present or past participle to fill in the gaps:

amazing/amazed frightening/frightened
amusing/amused frustrating/frustrated
annoying/annoyed insulting/insulted
boring/bored interesting/interested
challenging/challenged moving/moved
confusing/confused pleasing/pleased
depressing/depressed relaxing/relaxed
disappointing/disappointed satisfying/satisfied
disgusting/disgusted shocking/shocked
encouraging/encouraged surprising/surprised
embarrassing/embarrassed thrilling/thrilled
exciting/excited tiring/tired
exhausting/exhausted worrying/worried
fascinating/fascinated

1. After running 50 miles, the runners were ____________

2. Children are sometimes ______________, always shouting and making noise.
3. Everybody was ______________ to see John at the party. He never goes.
4. Everybody was listening. They were _________________ in the story.
5. I’m _______________ of spiders.
6. I’m very _______________. I’ll go to bed.
7. It’s _______________! I never thought I could win so much money.
8. Most boys think that going shopping is ______________
9. My brother never eats vegetables. He says they are _____________
10. She feels very ______________ because her mother has died.
11. She was ______________ because she had to explain why she was late in front of
the class.
12. She was ________________ to hear the news about the accident.
13. That work is so ______________ that I have to go to bed as soon as I get home.
14. The children are very ______________ because they are having a party tomorrow.
15. The weather is autumn is sometimes _______________
16. There is a very _________________ article that I want to show you.
17. They were _______________ because they didn’t know anything about their son.
18. This game is ______________ . You’ll like it.
19. When I am _______________ I go out and meet my friends.
20.- You always shout everybody when you’re ____________. Calm down, don’t get
angry!

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Exercise D

1.- I can’t finish this book. It’s very _______________ (bore)

2.- After such a long walk I was really _______________ (tire)

3.- On Christmas night children can’t sleep because they are _______________ about
the presents they are going to get. (excite)

4.- Winter days are dark and ______________. I prefer summer. (depress)

4.- He’s so funny! He’s always telling _______________ stories. (amuse)

5.- I’ve got _______________ news. Do you want to hear it? (surprise)

6.- After an_______________ day, we only wanted to go to bed as soon as possible.

(exhaust)

7.- You look _______________ . Do you have any problem? (worry)

8.- I can’t eat this. It’s _______________ . (disgust)

9.- We saw many _______________ places during our holiday. (interest)

10.- She doesn’t like flying. She’s _______________ . (frighten)

11.- It was very _______________ for Tom when he was caught travelling without a
ticket. (embarrass)

12.- Liz was very _______________ when she had to wait for Harry for half an hour. (annoy)

13.- Martin eats like a pig. Everybody is _______________when they see him eat. (disgust)

14.- I didn’t know what to do. The situation was very _______________ . (embarrass)

15.- I’m not _______________ . I just don’t want to talk about that. (annoy)

16.- Doing sport is so _______________. And I always feel hungry afterwards. (tire)

17.- I’m _______________ . Why don’t we go out? (bore)

18.- She has been very _______________ since she lost her job. (depress)

19.- Is there anything _______________ to do at the weekend? (excite)

20.- John has passed all his exams. Isn’t it _______________ ? He never studies.
(surprise)

21.- She’s very shy. She’s always _______________ to talk to strangers. (embarrass)

22.- They say the economical situation is_______________ . (worry)

23.- My friends were . _______________ when I told them that funny joke. (amuse)

24.- Peter told us such a _______________ story that nobody could believe it. (amuse)

25.- She is _______________ . She has been working all day. (exhaust)

26. - She thinks wild animals are ___________ but not all of them are dangerous. (frighten)

27.- He was very _______________ with the results of his exam. (disappoint)

28.- When they told me I had won the prize I was really _______________I couldn’t
believe it! (amaze)

29.- I think I could do with a _____________________ holiday. (relax)

30.- It was such a _____________________ story everybody ended up crying. (move)

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Exercise A
1. singing (present)
2. galloping (present)
3. stolen (past) Exercise B
4. rolling (present)
5. broken (past) 1. Boring bored
6. barking (present) 2. interesting interested
7. burnt (past) 3. surprising surprised
8. unknown (past) 4. depressing depressed
9. swinging (present) 5. excited exciting
10. lost and half-frozen (past) 6. exhausti9ng exhausted
11. tiring (present) 7. horrified horrifying
12. tired (past) 8. embarrassing embarrassed
13. annoying (present) 9. shocked shocking
14. frightened (past) 10. amazed amazing
15. excited (past) 11. disgusting disgusted
16. shocked (past) 12. confused confusing
17. disgusting (present) 13. frightening frightened
18. boring (present) 14. amused amused
19. bored (past) 15. worrying worried
20. embarrassing (present)

Exercise C Exercise D
More than one option
1. exhausted 1. boring
2. annoying 2. tired
3. surprised 3. excited
4. interested 4. depressing
5. frightened 5. surprising
6. tired 6. exhausting
7. amazing 7. worried
8. boring 8. disgusting
9. disgusting 9. interesting
10. depressed 10. frightened
11. embarrassed 11. embarrassing
12. shocked 12. annoyed
13. tiring 13. disgusted
14. excited 14. embarrassing
15. depressing 15. annoyed
16. interesting 16. tiring
17. worried 17. bored
18. amusing 18. depressed
19. bored 19. exciting
20. annoyed 20. surprising
21. embarrassed
22. worrying
23. amused
24. amusing
25. exhausted
26. frightening
27. disappointed
28. amazed
29. relaxing
30. moving

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