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Topic: Inflection

These resources cover how words change their form (typically by adding different endings) in different grammatical contexts. For example, the verb hop has the forms hop, hops, hopped and hopping.

Baby Sentences: Activity

Daddy go work

Mummy read

Daddy bike

What that

Where blanket

Sock off

Teddy fall

Sammy tired

Y6 GPaS Test: Select the pronouns

In each of the following examples, select the pair of pronouns that correctly fills the blanks:

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Y6 GPaS Test: Present or past tense?

In each of the following examples, indicate whether the highlighted verb is in present or past tense:

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Y6 GPaS Test: Forms of 'be': Advanced

Select the correct form of be:

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Y6 GPaS Test: Forms of 'be'

Select the correct form of be:

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Y6 GPaS Test: Select the verb form

Select the correct verb form for each example.

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Y6 GPaS Test: Spelling plurals

Select the correct plural form:

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Spelling: Double consonants

If a root word ends in a consonant, adding a suffix will sometimes require that you double the base word’s final consonant. How do you know when to double the consonant?

Consider the following examples, where doubled consonants are underlined.

  • shipment
  • shipped
  • muddy
  • fitful
  • fittest
  • waiting
  • greenest
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Now take a look at some larger words, whose base forms have more than one syllable.

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Spelling: Suffixes

Suffixes cause many of our common spelling mistakes. One challenge is simply to know which is correct: for example, legible or legable? In fact, −ible and −able serve the same function, and sound the same. As a matter of history, -ible entered English from Latin, while −able entered English from French, but there’s no easy rule for knowing when to use which suffix. Each word with each suffix just requires practice.

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