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Grammarism Ed Ing Adjectives Test 4 1189424

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Grammarism Ed Ing Adjectives Test 4 1189424

This document appears to be an exercise assessing knowledge of adjectives. It contains 20 sentences with a blank for an adjective, and the correct choice is either an "-ed" or "-ing" form. The student is to choose the right adjective for each blank and score their results out of 20.
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Ed Ing Adjectives

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

1. John was very much ______________ with this idea. (pleased/pleasing)

2. And I was ______________ to find how relieved I was at this suggested


complication. (surprised/surprising)

3. In all this story it is ______________ to note that insularity in position is the


reverse of insularity in fact. (interested/interesting)

4. It would be ______________ to know the cause of this striking difference.


(interested/interesting)

5. He was made bishop of Oxford in 1674, and in the ______________ year


was translated to the see of London. (followed/following)

6. He has shown that he knows that the African has been elevated and
improved by his servitude in the ______________ States. (united/uniting)

7. It is not ______________ that sparks should flash out among the ashes.
(surprised/surprising)

8. A merry, bright- ______________ little woman is she, such as it does one's


heart good to behold. (eyed/eyeing)

9. A stern, white- ______________ official came over to us and tapped us on


the shoulder. (coated/coating)

10. We first became ______________ in the opium traffic during a visit to the
Far East in 1916. (interested/interesting)

11. Camp still stood with the bill in his hand, open- ______________ and
evidently puzzled; and now his wife, who had drawn closer and was peering
into my face, turned upon him quickly. (mouthed/mouthing)

12. If these cold-blooded, low- ______________ creatures, after sleeping all


winter in the mud, are free to make so much use of their voices, surely a bird
of the air may sing his unobtrusive song without being cross-examined
concerning the purpose of it. (lived/liveing)
13. I have thus far discussed the question as confined to the contest between
the respective candidates for the Presidency of the ______________ States.
(united/uniting)

14. He was ______________ to see the expression of suddenly renewed


hope that seemed to have taken up its abiding place there.
(surprised/surprising)

15. Modern census-taking seems to have originated in the ______________


States. (united/uniting)

16. The children were very much ______________, and asked the fairy
whether that was her doing. (surprised/surprising)

17. He resolved to be successful, no matter by what means, and with this


determination constantly in mind it is not ______________ that he soon
became involved in all kinds of shady schemes, all looking to the fattening of
his bank roll. (surprised/surprising)

18. It is ______________ to note how the educational history of one


Canadian province is repeated in another. (interested/interesting)

19. In the ______________ year, the survivors of the thirty came back to
Europe, having abandoned the fort and experienced every extremity of thirst
and hunger while crossing the Atlantic in a ship of their own making.
(followed/following)

20. Many of the intrigues were not made known by the Government of the
______________ States. (united/uniting)

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