# -ed and -ing Adjectives Exercises with Answers

https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/ed-and-ing-adjectives-b1

- Title: Adjectives Ending in -ed and -ing
- CEFR: B1 (Intermediate)
- Category: Adjectives and Comparison
- Questions: 14

Bored or boring? Interested or interesting? Practise the common -ed and -ing adjective pairs, for people and for the things that cause a feeling. Answers and short explanations included.

Practise -ed adjectives for how a person feels and -ing adjectives for what causes the feeling: bored and boring, interested and interesting, tired and…

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## Lessons on this topic

- [Adjectives Ending in -ed and -ing](https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar-lessons/ed-and-ing-adjectives)

## Sample questions with answers

1. The football match was really ____. Both teams scored three goals.
   - A. exciting
   - B. excited
   - C. excite
   - D. excites
   Answer: A — The match causes the feeling, so exciting. Excite is a verb.

2. Linh is very ____ in Korean food.
   - A. interested
   - B. interesting
   - C. interest
   - D. interests
   Answer: A — Linh has the feeling: interested in.

3. We were ____ after the long walk around Hội An.
   - A. tired
   - B. tiring
   - C. tire
   - D. tires
   Answer: A — This is how the people felt, so tired. The walk was tiring.

## More Adjectives and Comparison exercises

- [Comparison with As...As · B1](https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/comparison-structures-as-as-less-least-b1) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/comparison-structures-as-as-less-least-b1.md
- [So and Such · B1](https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/so-and-such-b1) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/so-and-such-b1.md
- [Compound and Participial Adjectives · B2](https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/compound-adjectives-b2) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/compound-adjectives-b2.md
- [Intensifiers and Gradability · C1](https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/intensifiers-c1) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/intensifiers-c1.md
- [Extreme and Non-Gradable Adjectives · C2](https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/gradable-and-non-gradable-adjectives-c2) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/gradable-and-non-gradable-adjectives-c2.md
- [Comparatives and Superlatives · A1](https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/comparatives-and-superlatives-a1) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/comparatives-and-superlatives-a1.md
- [As ... As · A2](https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/as-as-a2) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/as-as-a2.md
- [Comparative Adjectives · A2](https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/comparative-adjectives-a2) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/grammar/comparative-adjectives-a2.md

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