Adjectives ending -ed/-ing
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Form:
Frustrated – frustrating.
Uninterested – uninteresting.                                         Confused – confusing.
Annoyed – annoying.                                                     Depressed – depressing.
Surprised – surprising.                                                   Exhausted – exhausting.
                        Resultado de imagen para adjectives ending ed and ing
Function:
  1. Past participles used as adjectives describe an effect on a person or thing.
  2. Present participles used as adjectives describe the person or thing that causes an effect. 

Ed = Past participles.
Ing = Present participles.

Practice
Choose the correct adjective form to complete the sentences.
  1. I like interesting/interested, unusual furniture.
  2. Our business goal is to have 100% satisfying/satisfied customers.
  3. Sofia is very exciting/excited about her new tablet.
  4. I want to relax before we go out because I had a really tiring/tired day.
  5. I don´t like that color blue. It makes me feel depressing/depressed.
  6. Almost all children´s toys are importing/imported from China these days.
  7. I thought that was a very entertaining/entertained movie!
  8. I think this product manual is confusing/confused. I don´t understand it.


Watch out!
My new phone is amazed! (Mal)
My new phone is amazing! (Bien)
Were you surprised when you got a tablet for you birthday? (Bien)

Were you surprising when you got a tablet for you birthday? (Mal)

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