-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.

1. PARTICIPIAL ADJECTIVES
-ED or -ING?
Parengė:
Anglų k. Vyr. mokytoja Zita Stankevičė
Utenos Krašuonos pagr. m-kla
2011

2. WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
My English teacher is boring.
My English teacher is bored.

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,......

4. THE FILM WAS
BORING.

5. RECEIVER OF THE FEELING
Adjectives ending -ED
are used to describe feelings.
The film was dull, long and slow. It even
made me sleep.
So,......

6. I WAS BORED.

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.

8. THE MOST COMMON
PARTICIPIAL ADJECTIVES
• amazed amazing
• amused amusing
• annoyed annoying
• astonished astonishing
• bored boring
• confused confusing
• depressed depressing
• disappointed disappointing
• disgusted disgusting
• embarrassed embarrassing

9. • excited exciting
• exhausted exhausting
• frightened frightening
• insulted insulting
• interested interesting
• intrigued intriguing
• satisfied satisfying
• shocked shocking
• surprised surprising
• tempted tempting
• terrified terrifying
• tired tiring
• worried worrying

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)

12. WELL DONE
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