Inflectional Endings Worksheet
A Grade 6 ELA worksheet focusing on identifying and using inflectional endings to change word meaning and grammatical function.
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Inflectional Endings Practice
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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions. This worksheet will test your understanding of inflectional endings.
Inflectional Endings
Inflectional endings are suffixes added to the end of words to change their grammatical function, but not their core meaning. They tell us more about a word, such as its tense, number, or comparison. For example, adding '-s' to 'cat' makes it 'cats,' indicating more than one cat. Adding '-ed' to 'walk' makes it 'walked,' showing past tense. Understanding these endings helps us read and write more accurately.
1. Which of the following words uses an inflectional ending to show past tense?
quickly
running
jumped
beautiful
2. The word 'darkest' has an inflectional ending that indicates:
plural form
past tense
superlative degree
present participle
Complete the sentences by adding the correct inflectional ending to the word in parentheses.
1. The bird (sing) a beautiful song yesterday.
2. She is the (tall) student in her class.
3. My brother (play) video games right now.
4. There are many (book) on the shelf.
Match each base word with the correct word containing an inflectional ending.
1. run
a. walked
2. walk
b. running
3. quick
c. quicker
4. box
d. boxes
1. Explain in your own words what an inflectional ending is and give two examples.
Read each statement and circle T for True or F for False.
1. Inflectional endings change the core meaning of a word.
True
False
2. The ending '-es' can be an inflectional ending to show plural form.
True
False