Inflectional Endings Mastery
This worksheet helps 8th-grade students master inflectional endings, focusing on how they change the function and meaning of words without altering their core lexical meaning.
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Inflectional Endings Mastery
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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions. This worksheet focuses on inflectional endings, which are suffixes added to words to change their grammatical function (e.g., tense, number, possession, comparison) without changing the core meaning of the word.
Underline the base word and circle the inflectional ending in each of the following words:
1. Running:
2. Happiest:
3. Books:
4. Played:
5. Faster:
1. Which inflectional ending would you add to the word 'jump' to show past tense?
-ing
-s
-ed
-er
2. Which word correctly uses an inflectional ending to show possession?
doggy
dogs
dog's
doglike
Rewrite each sentence, adding the correct inflectional ending to the word in parentheses to make the sentence grammatically correct.
1. She (walk) to the store yesterday.
2. The cat (sleep) on the softest blanket.
3. My brother is (tall) than me.
Determine if the following statements about inflectional endings are true or false.
1. Inflectional endings always change the part of speech of a word.
True
False
2. The ending '-ing' can indicate a present participle.
True
False
Write a short paragraph (5-7 sentences) about your favorite hobby or a recent event. As you write, intentionally use at least five different words that demonstrate various inflectional endings (e.g., -ed, -ing, -s, -es, -er, -est, -'s). Underline each word with an inflectional ending.