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Adjective Gap-Fill Exercise

The document provides a grammar exercise where students must fill in the blanks of 20 sentences with the correct adjective form ending in "-ed" or "-ing". The sentences cover a range of topics and emotions including boredom, disappointment, tiredness, excitement, pleasing/disgusting effects, sadness, depression, amazement, interest, intrigue, surprise, exhaustion, annoyance, and embarrassment. Students must determine whether the blank should be filled with an adjective describing a state or an adjective describing an action/effect in order to choose the right word ending.

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Adjective Gap-Fill Exercise

The document provides a grammar exercise where students must fill in the blanks of 20 sentences with the correct adjective form ending in "-ed" or "-ing". The sentences cover a range of topics and emotions including boredom, disappointment, tiredness, excitement, pleasing/disgusting effects, sadness, depression, amazement, interest, intrigue, surprise, exhaustion, annoyance, and embarrassment. Students must determine whether the blank should be filled with an adjective describing a state or an adjective describing an action/effect in order to choose the right word ending.

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-ING OR -ED

Exercise 1: Fill the gaps with the adjectives in brackets.


1 He's such a monotonous speaker. I was so .................................. (bored / boring)
2 Most sequels are .................................. (disappointed / disappointing)
3 I had such a ................................. day I went straight to bed. (tired / tiring)
4 Everyone's very ................................. about the news. (excited / exciting)
5 That lamp produces a very ................................. effect. (pleased / pleasing)
6 The whole school was ................................. by the tragic event. (saddened / saddening)
7 I don't like watching ................................. films on my own. (depressed / depressing)
8 I was ................................. when she told me she'd got divorced. (amazed / amazing)
9 He's such a ................................. guy. He only ever talks about himself. (bored / boring)
10 I'm very ................................. in films and theatre. (interested / interesting)
11 No one knew what would happen next. We were all ................................... (intrigued /
intriguing)
12 It was a very ................................. situation. (interested / interesting)
13 There's been some very ................................. news. (surprised / surprising)
14 His mother was ................................. by what she found under his bed. (disgusted / disgusting)
15 Their hamburgers are .................................. (disgusted / disgusting)
16 Dad always arrives home from work completely ................................... (exhausted / exhausting)
17 He's always showing off. It's really ................................... (annoyed / annoying)
18 I think Alex is one of the most ................................. people I've ever met. He can't keep still for
a second. (annoyed / annoying)
19 I walked into this restaurant and there was Andy with a strange woman. He seemed really
................................... (embarrassed / embarrassing)
20 She kept talking about her boyfriend problems all night. It was rather ...................................
(embarrassed / embarrassing)

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