Get Unit 1 Inflected Endings (-ing, -ed, -s, -es)

-ing is a suffix used to make one of the inflected forms of English verbs. This verb form is used as a present participle, as a gerund, and sometimes as an independent noun or adjective. The suffix is also found in certain words like morning and ceiling, and in names such as Browning.

Inflectional endings are letters that are added to a base word and change the word meaning. In first grade, students should learn the three sounds that -ed can make (/ed/, /d/, /t/), begin to recognize when -es or -s is used, and work on decoding words with inflectional endings -ed, -s, -es fluently.

' An inflectional ending is a morpheme that you add to the end of a verb, noun, or adjective to add meaning. Inflectional endings can demonstrate the tense of a verb, like '-ed' indicates the past tense of many verbs.

Simply write several words on the board and have students approach and add inflectional endings to each. Then have them read the words and describe the new meanings. This will test their capacity to actively use inflectional endings and demonstrate that they can match the appropriate endings to the given words.

Inflectional endings include -s, -es, -ing, -ed. The inflectional endings -s and -es change a noun from singular (one) to plural (more than one): cat/cats, bench/benches. The inflectional endings -ing and -ed change the tense of a verb: eat/eating, walk/ walked.

What does the ing inflectional ending say? Inflectional ending ing says /ing/ as in making, meeting, and setting. The sound /ing/ is straightforward. However, students often struggle with ing inflectional ending words, because determining the sound of the first vowel can be tricky.

English inflection indicates noun plural (cat, cats), noun case (girl, girl's, girls'), third person singular present tense (I, you, we, they buy; he buys), past tense (we walk, we walked), aspect (I have called, I am calling), and comparatives (big, bigger, biggest).