Words With Inflectional Endings Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RF.1.3.F

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You may have recognized a form of suffix that can indicate a number (dogs, bears) or a tense (play, plays, played) these are called inflected endings. When inflected endings are added to single syllable words they often have a same reliable outcome. When working with this skill we encourage students to work with the same words and word families multiple times to become more confident with the work. Students will be put through a wide array of activities to activate their brains with inflections.

Inflectional Endings Worksheets To Print:

On the Water - Find the correct plural form for each given word. Make sure to read all the nouns.

Sounds of the -ed in words - This is great for a student's audio recognition skills. Read the words and listen to the sounds that you hear at the end of the words.

Presto Chango! - Add each ending to the base word. Write each new word on the line. We work with -ed and -ing endings.

Which Makes Sense - Find the correct plural form of each word given. Some of these words just look wrong.

Inflectional Endings Grid - Follow the spelling rules to add the inflectional endings to the words.

Sylvester the Snail - Write -s, -ed or -ing to complete each word. You may need to cross out letters.

Scary Stanley - Find the base word in each plural. It helps to break them into chunks.

Covering All Bases - Write the base word for each word. Make sure to sound it out for yourself.

There's Always a Bigger Fish! - Fill in the inflectional endings for each word. The first example is completed for you.

The Dog Next Door - Write the correct tense of each underlined verb. Remind students that we are focused only on those words and using the sentence as background.

Deconstruct! - We break apart the base word from the inflectional ending. We space them out into distinct boxes.

Proud Piggies - More of breaking the word into two parts. We display that they pat of a whole.

Heavy Traffic - We talk about how an -ed ending can really cause sounds to sound differently.

In Action! - We use the inflectional ending -ing to create a new word that works in a different manner.

Can You Teach A Cow To Sit? - Read each sentence. Add an ending (-ed, -ing, -es or -s) to each word in parentheses to complete the sentence.

What Are Some Words with Inflectional Endings?


Inflections are important elements of word formation. Not all words that you use every day are unique in nature. Some are derived from root words. Root words are words that are basic and raw. They have complete meaning. They can be used to make more words by using prefixes, suffixes, and infections.


Inflection refers to the extra addition of letters at the end of the root word to transform and shift its meaning in some sort. There are several ways in which a word can use inflections. But here are some of the most basic rules of inflection.


Nouns


Whenever you want to convert a singular noun to a plural noun, you use the inflections. Usually, an "s" or "es" is added at the end of the noun.


For example,
flower - flowers
Cat- cats
Gate - gates
Glass - glasses
Pass- passes
track - tracks


Whenever you want to add a sense of possession to the noun, you add an apostrophe, apostrophe s, or just an "s".
For example,
It - its
Josh - Josh's
Francis- Francis'


Verbs


Inflections are added to simple verbs in three different ways. The first method is to turn the action into a progressive state by adding "ing" to the end.


For example,
Run - running
Taste - tasting
Act - acting
walk - walking
wash - washing
Worry - worrying


The second method is to turn the action into the past tense by adding "ed" at the end.

For example,
taste - tasted
act -acted
walk - walked
wash - washed


The third method is to turn the verb into the present tense by adding an "s".

For example
Run - runs
act- acts
taste- tastes
walk - walks


Adjectives


There are two rules to add inflections in an adjective. One is to add "er" at the end to make it comparative.
For example,
tall - taller
fast - faster
smart - smarter


The second way is to add "est" at the end to make it superlative.
For example
tall- tallest
fast - fastest
smart -smartest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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