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5 Use Inflectional Affixes

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    Change the grammatical class of the word and phrase by adding an inflectional affix
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  • Carry those MUG to the table
    MUGS - add the '-s' inflectional affix to make it plural
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  • Out of everyone, he is the fast.
    FASTEST - add the '-est' inflectional affix to make it superlative
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  • I cook the vegetables yesterday, but ate them today.
    COOKED - add the '-ed' inflectional affix to make it past-tense (to talk about what happened in the past)
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  • The boy hat fell off of his head.
    BOY'S - add the '-'s' inflectional affix to make it possessive (to show that the noun "owns" something)
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  • That shirt is nice than this one.
    NICER - add the '-er' inflectional affix to make it comparative.
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  • The car was drive off the lot.
    DRIVEN - add the '-en' inflectional affix to form the past participle (different than past-tense form 'drove', needs the 'was' helping verb)
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  • I moved two couch into the house
    COUCHES - add the '-es' inflectional affix to form a plural (words that end with s, –sh, –ch, –x, or –z usually get a 'es' pluralization)
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  • That cookie look delicious.
    LOOKS - add the "-s" inflectional affix to make a present-tense sentence.
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  • I am look at that cookie.
    LOOKING - add the "-ing" inflectional affix to make a progressive tense sentence.
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  • I look at all the fresh cookies.
    LOOKED - add the "-ed" inflectional affix to make a past-tense sentence.
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