Ed Ing Adjectives

Name: Result: __/17 Date: __/__/20__

pleased
1. I was very much ______________ with him indeed; he showed a fine
sense and a fine feeling in the whole matter. (pleased/pleasing)

2. He had never asserted his greater muscular power and mastery of material
amazed
things, and she was ______________ to see that his lethargy was only a
mood. (amazed/amazing)

3. In 1550 Maurice of Saxony intrigues with the Protestants, and in the

following
______________ year definitely goes over to their side. (followed/following)

4. He read classical books, not only at Cambridge but in later life, when he
was ______________ to find his scholarship equal to the task of translating.
(pleased/pleasing)

5. When such is the purpose of those who paint pictures and such is the
understanding of those who buy them, it is not ______________ that not
every picture is inevitably a work of art. (surprised/surprising)

6. And the vision of Mrs Fyne dressed for a rather special afternoon function,
engaged in wrestling with a wild-eyed, white- ______________ girl had a
certain dramatic fascination. (faced/facing)

7. But I was very much ______________ about the final disposal of her.
(troubled/troubling)

8. It was ______________ to see the speed he was able to force out of the
unwieldy structure. (astonished/astonishing)

9. Therefore it is not ______________ that the most of our captive birds have
been chosen for their song. (surprised/surprising)

10. I had taken up the matter merely out of good nature, but the old man was
a character, and I soon became ______________ in his personality.
(interested/interesting)

11. He was ______________ to find himself out of the house; the door closed
between them; no going back without ringing the bell.
(frightened/frightening)
12. There is no such thing in the ______________ States. (united/uniting)

13. This problem has of necessity been solved by the designers of all nations
and all periods, and it is ______________ to note that the result has
everywhere been practically the same. (interested/interesting)

14. And she thought with the tenderest possible affection of that upright figure
buttoned up in a long frock-coat, soft- ______________ and having but little
to say to his girl. (voiced/voicing)

15. I'm ______________ of the white people. (tired/tiring)

16. I'm ______________ of being good. (tired/tiring)

17. I had not seen him for several years, and was ______________ to find
him, under the weight of so many years, unchanged in activity and energy of
body and mind. (surprised/surprising)

18. My friend Eustace brought his gondolier Antonio with fair-haired, dark-
______________ wife, and little Attilio, their eldest child. (eyed/eyeing)

19. In all commercial countries they had been resorted to as an instrument of

great efficacy in mercantile transactions; and even in the ______________
States, their public and private advantages had been felt and acknowledged.
(united/uniting)

20. It is ______________ to note the various vicissitudes of the city in history.

(interested/interesting)