Participle Adjectives Exercise 2

Grammar review Participle adjectives — additional pairs

Reminder: -ed = how someone feels  /  -ing = what causes the feeling.

Less obvious pairs in this exercise:
The embarrass-, frighten-, depress-, overwhelm-, fascinate- families all follow the same rule.

Both forms can modify nouns:
a ______ lecture (the lecture causes a feeling)  /  a ______ student (the student has the feeling)

Important error to avoid:
Using the -ing form to describe a person’s inner state implies they are causing that feeling in others, not experiencing it themselves.
She was very ______. — which form describes what she felt? Which describes the effect she had on others?