-ING adjectives describe things or people that are the source or cause of a feeling. For example, "My English teacher is boring."
-ED adjectives describe feelings received by someone. For example, "The film made me bored."
Some common participial adjectives are amazed, amused, annoyed, astonished, bored, confused, depressed, disappointed, disgusted, embarrassed, excited, exhausted, frightened, insulted, interested, intrigued, satisfied, shocked, surprised, tempted, terrified, tired, and worried. The document provides examples and a practice to distinguish when to use -ING and -ED adjectives.
3. CAUSE OR SOURCE OF THE
FEELING
Adjectives ending -ING
are used to describe things or people.
The film was dull, long and slow. It even
made me sleep.
So,......
7. SOME MORE SAMPLES
Situation I feel, I am... It is, This is...
I spilled water embarrassed embarrassing
on my pants.
This unfriendly frightened frightening
dog has big
teeth.
I can't confused confusing
understand the
instructions.
He gave good convinced convincing
reasons.
10. PRACTICE
• I had such a ... day I went straight to bed. (tired /
tiring)
• Everyone's very ... about the news. (excited /
exciting)
• I was ... when she told me she'd got divorced.
(amazed / amazing)
• No one knew what would happen next. We were
all ... . (intrigued / intriguing)
• It was a very ... situation. (interested / interesting)
• There's been some very ... news. (surprised /
surprising)
• His mother was ... by what she found under his bed.
(disgusted / disgusting)
11. • Their hamburgers are .... (disgusted / disgusting)
• Dad always arrives home from work thoroughly ... .
(exhausted / exhausting)
• He's always showing off. It's really .... (annoyed /
annoying)
• I walked into this restaurant and there was Andy with
a strange woman. He seemed really .... (embarrassed /
embarrassing)
• She kept talking about her boyfriend problems all
night. It was rather .... (embarrassed / embarrassing)
• He's such a slow speaker. I was ... all the time.
(bored / boring)
• His words were really ... . (insulted, insulting)