Inflection

Type of inflection indicates 3rd person singular (present) is ...

• She never tidies her bedroom.

• It is Lala's boardgame.

• My grandpa sharpened the knives.

• I am shouting angrily.

Type of inflection indicates possessive is ...

• She never tidies her bedroom.

• It is Lala's boardgame.

• My grandpa sharpened the knives.

• I am shouting angrily.

Type of inflection indicates present participle / progressive is ...

• She never tidies her bedroom.

• It is Lala's boardgame.

• My grandpa sharpened the knives.

• I am shouting angrily.

From the sentence below, choose the type of inflection.

The food in restaurant A is worse than in restaurant B.

• Comparative

• Superlative

From the sentence below, choose the type of inflection.

He stood next to me.

• Past Tense

• Past Participle

From the sentence below, choose the type of inflection.

We have just swum.

• Past Tense

• Past Participle

Choose the best form of inflection from the words below.

man - men

baby - babies

• Form of Adjective

• Form of Noun

• Form of Pronoun and Determiner

• Form of Verb

Choose the best form of inflection from the words below.

myself, your, many, these, one

• Form of Adjective

• Form of Noun

• Form of Pronoun and Determiner

• Form of Verb

What is inflection?

• The modification of a word’s form to indicate grammatical information

• The change of meaning of a word

• The combination of words in a sentence

• The process of creating new words

What does inflection primarily involve?

• Changing the syntactic category of a word

• Modifying the meaning of a word

• Adding prefixes to a word

• Adding suffixes to a word