Example sentences for: inflections

How can you use “inflections” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The notion of entry, as described many times in these pages, includes (1) head-word,(2) inflected forms (which, in the sole case of the MW-III , includes regular inflections, which pumps up the entry count considerably), (3) changes in parts of speech, (4) embedded boldface entries (like idioms and phrases), (5) run-on forms (those that are added at the ends of entries to illustrate headwords with suffixes of transparent meaning added, e.g., national and nationally run on to nation and nationalization run on to nationalize , (6) spelling variants (like British honour, nationalise, nationalisation , etc.).

  • If, in the future, Modern Greek continues to be as hospitable to English words as it has been in the recent past, there are likely to be more and more neuter nouns with few inflections or none at all, at least until the new words have put down roots.

  • The personality is not unlike Kafka's, except with less intellectual intensity, which is too bad, and with American inflections, which is wonderful.

  • However, the Cambridge gets more of the bowing on the basses, more of their rhythmic inflections.

  • The flexible nature of English means that verbs can easily be based on names, whereas in Latinate languages, with their many inflections, such a process is clearly hampered.


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