Inflections in English

Flash Cards for Learning English Inflections

These cards will help you learn the inflections still used in modern English and what kind of words (part of speech) each inflection can attach to. Notice that two of the suffixes included are not inflections!
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-tionnot an inflection
-s (possessive)noun
-s (singular)verb
-ingverb
-edverb
-s (plural)noun
-estadjective or adverb
-lynot an inflection
-en (past participle)verb
-eradjective or adverb

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