-ED and –ING
Adjectives Exercise 1
Choose the correct adjective:
1. My nephew was (amusing / AMUSED) by the clown.
2. It’s so (FRUSTRATING / frustrated)! No matter how much I study I can’t
seem to remember this vocabulary.
3. This lesson is so (BORING / bored)!
4. I’m feeling (DEPRESSED / depressing), so I’m going to go home, eat
some chocolate, and go to bed early with a good book.
5. I thought her new idea was absolutely (fascinated / FASCINATING).
6. This maths problem is so (CONFUSING / confused). Can you help me?
7. The teacher was really (AMUSING / amused) so the lesson passed quickly.
8. The journey was (EXHAUSTING / exhausted)! Twelve hours by bus.
9. The plane began to move in a rather (ALARMING / alarmed) way.
10. He was (frightening / FRIGHTENED) when he saw the spider.
11. I was really (embarrassing / EMBARRASSED) when I fell over in the street.
12. That film was so (DEPRESSING / depressed)! There was no happy ending
for any of the characters.
13. I’m sorry, I can’t come tonight. I’m completely (exhausting / EXHAUSTED).
14. We are going in a helicopter? How (EXCITING / excited)!
15. Don’t show my baby photos to people, Mum! It’s so
(EMBARRASSING / embarrassed)!
16. It’s okay, it’s only me. Don’t be (alarming / ALARMED).
17. My sister is so (exciting / EXCITED) because she is going on holiday
tomorrow.
18. I hate long flights, I’m always really (boring / BORED).
19. She looked very (confusing / CONFUSED) when I told her we had to
change the plan.
20. John was (FASCINATED / fascinating) by Mandarin when he first started
learning languages. He decided to study more and now he can speak it fluently.