-ED/-ING Participles - Appropriate Participles
Guided Practice
For each sentence below, choose the correct participle by clicking one of the two choices provided. Remember that the -ing participle is associated with the SOURCE and the -ed participle is associated with the EXPERIENCER.
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Mary gave me some bewildered/bewildering directions to her house.
bewildered: INCORRECT.
bewildering: CORRECT!
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Confused/Confusing I drove all around the countryside.
confused: CORRECT!
confusing: INCORRECT.
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By the end of the day, I was both annoyed/annoying and almost out of gas.
annoyed: CORRECT!
annoying: INCORRECT.
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Then I noticed a pleased/pleasing sight, a gas station next to an ice cream stand.
pleased: INCORRECT.
pleasing: CORRECT!
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After I stopped there, I felt much more refreshed/refreshing and ready to tackle the puzzled/puzzling directions once again.
refreshed: CORRECT!
refreshing: INCORRECT.
puzzled: INCORRECT.
puzzling: CORRECT!