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GRAMMAR CHECK GRAMMAR CHECK
Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed Adjectives ending in -y and adverbs ending in -ly
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We use adjectives ending in -ed to talk about how people feel. We use adjectives to describe people or things. They go before nouns, or after verbs of
appearance, like be, seem, and look. Some adjectives end in -y.
I'm interested to hear Mr McFarlane's story.
Please don't be angr y Mr Holmes.
We use adjectives ending in -ing to talk about the things, events, and people that
make us feel different things. We often use adverbs to describe how something happens. Most adverbs of this type
end in -ly.
But f o r me, Watson, life is not so interesting.
Holmes walked slowly to the f r ont door.
6 Choose the correct words to complete the sentences. Some adjectives, such as brotherly, f a therly, f r iendly, and motherly, end in -ly too.
a Sherlock Holmes was feeling_b.c1Vbored because there weren't any crimes to
Complete the sentences with the correct adjectives and adverbs from the box.
investigate.
Write adjective or adverb after the word.
b He wanted to investigate an exciting/excited murder.
c John McFarlane was very surprised/surprising when he read about the murder in dry carefully hungry daily happy angry � sunny weekly quickly
the newspaper. angrily thoughtfully ..e.y friendly happily warmly busy
d McFarlane was very frightening/frightened when he arrived at Holmes' house
a Watson went to bed .e.o .. r.1.'j .. C.0cije.c_+.iy1?). , but Holmes didn't want to sleep. He was
because the police were following him.
playing the violin and thinking . d.e.ep)� .. �0ci Y�r:b..) . . about the investigation.
e Mrs Hudson was annoyed/annoying when McFarlane pushed her out of his way.
b Hol mes was looking at the letter very . . .... . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . Tm not sure what happened
.
f Mr Oldacre's will was very surprised/surprising because in it he left all his money
here,' he said .............. ....... , 'but I will find the answer.'
to John McFarlane.
.
c I thanked Mr Oldacre . . . . . . . . . .. for leaving me the money in h i s will. I thought
g Holmes was very interested/interesting.In the will. He wanted to know why Oldacre
...._. that he was a very ..................... person.
wrote it on a train.
b
d The wood was very . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . after the warm weather, and it urned very
h Oldacre was a dangerous man. Mrs McFarlane thought that he was very
frightened/frightening.
I Oldacre was very ................. .... when John's mother married another man.
Lestrade doesn't like answering lots of annoyed/annoying questions from Sherlock
Holmes when he's investigating a murder. It was a beautiful, ................... . afternoon, but Holmes wasn't feeling
j Holmes was very excited/exciting when he found the bloody thumbprint.
Watson was reading the .................. . . . newspaper when Holmes came in. He was
k The thumbprint was an interested/interesting problem
for Holmes to think about. smiling ..................... . 'I've found the a n swer in today's Timesl' he said.
'Aren't you ..... ................ , Holmes? You haven't eaten anything.'
For Watson, living with a man li ke Holmes is
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never boring/bored. It was r iday. Lestrade was writing his ..................... report when Sergeant Judd
knocked on his door. 'Come back laterl' he said, ........ . . . 'Can't you see that
I'm ..................... ?'
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