What's Inflectional Ending

1. Review inflectional endings using the table below. An inflectional ending is a word part that is added to the end of a base word that changes the number or tense of a base word. A base word can stand alone and has meaning (for example, cat, bench, eat, walk).

What do inflectional endings do?

Inflectional endings are a group of letters that change the meaning of the word. Inflectional endings can help us determine if the event occurred in the past (The dolphin flipped) or present (The dolphin is flipping).

Is Y an inflectional ending?

Inflectional Endings (Suffix) Bundle (-s, -ing, -y, -ly, -less, -ness, -er)