Inflectional endings
Write their examples on the board in separate columns until there are at least two words for every “-es” root ending: "ch," "sh," "ss," "x" and "z." Circle each ending one by one, then suggest a new word with a similar ending and guide students to use the same method - adding “es” - to make it plural. Ask students to identify several of those with “-es” endings followed by those with “-s” endings.
Pass out a list of plural nouns and regular present tense verbs, interspersing those with “-s” and “-es” inflectional endings. Ask whether it fits in the story as is or if it needs to be changed to make sense, and discuss the alterations in inflectional endings with the class.
Read the completed story aloud and pause after each verb. Fill in the verbs and nouns exactly as told to you don’t conjugate or pluralize them to fit the story. To apply the rules across a variety of words. Focus on leaving many spaces for verbs and nouns, singular and plural as well as past and present tense. inflected endings to single-syllable words are reliable and straightforward, we refer to them as rules. Inflected Endings ed, -ing welding Inflected Endings ed, -ing welding tapping flipped fixes sipped ringing getting jogging clapping yelled running hummed wishes. Name the missing parts of speech and have students come up with their own answers. Literature and the Arts Medicine People Philosophy and Religion Places Plants and Animals Science and Technology Social Sciences and the Law Sports and Everyday Life Additional References Articles Daily Literature and the Arts Language, Linguistics, and Literary Terms Language. An alteration of the form of a word by the addition of an affix, as in English dogs from dog, or by changing the form of a base, as in English spoke from speak, that indicates grammatical features such as number, person, mood. Alteration in pitch or tone of the voice. Mad Libįind a Mad Lib that's especially verb-oriented or create your own by making up a simple story and leaving out occasional words to be filled in by the class. The act of inflecting or the state of being inflected. Syntactical functions of the adjective can be: Attribute, in case it defines a noun, pronoun or numeral. Adjectives that do not have only one inflected form (and thus one ending) are called variable. List root words followed by a short sentence in which to place them, and have students add the necessary endings to make each word fit. The foreign borrowed adjective oranj ('orange') is called invariable, as it has only one ending, and one inflected form. Reserve this activity on a separate worksheet to test students’ comprehension. Have them identify and write the root of each word on the worksheet, then instruct them to underline the ending on the original word. Give students a worksheet listing a number of verbs and nouns with various inflectional endings.