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Vocabulary
- Knowledge
- Tense
- Number
- Degree
- Inflected endings
- Determine
Knowledge
- Inflected endings are added to words to show that a word's meaning has changed in tense, number, or degree.
Skills
- Apply knowledge of inflectional endings to determine meaning of words.
Understanding
- When a word has an inflected ending, the meaning of the base word has changed.
- When an -ed is added to a verb, it signifies the verb happened in the past.
- When an -s is added to a noun, it signifies the noun is plural (more than one).
- When an -er or -est is added to the end of an adjective it changes the degree of comparison.
