Inflectional Endings Practice
A Grade 4 ELA worksheet focusing on identifying and using inflectional endings to change the meaning of words.
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Inflectional Endings Practice
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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions to complete the activities on inflectional endings.
Inflectional endings are letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning or tense, but not its part of speech. For example, adding '-s' to 'cat' makes it 'cats' (more than one cat). Adding '-ed' to 'walk' makes it 'walked' (past tense).
Read each word. Write the base word on the first blank and the inflectional ending on the second blank.
1. Jumped: Base Word: Ending:
2. Running: Base Word: Ending:
3. Happiest: Base Word: Ending:
4. Boxes: Base Word: Ending:
5. Taller: Base Word: Ending:
Choose the word that correctly uses an inflectional ending to complete each sentence.
6. The bird is a beautiful song.
sing
singing
sings
sang
7. Yesterday, I to the park with my friends.
play
playing
played
plays
8. Write a sentence using the word 'talk' with the inflectional ending '-ing'.
9. Write a sentence using the word 'fast' with the inflectional ending '-er'.
Use the words from the word bank to complete the sentences. Make sure to choose the correct inflectional ending.
10. My dog loves in the snow.
11. This winter has been the ever.
12. We are a movie tonight.
13. The music was than I expected.
Read each statement. Circle T for True or F for False.
14. The word 'jump' is the base word for 'jumping'.
True
False
15. Inflectional endings always change the part of speech of a word.
True
False