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Example sentences for: inflections
How can you use “inflections” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The personality is not unlike Kafka's, except with less intellectual intensity, which is too bad, and with American inflections, which is wonderful.
Words that are or become nouns in Greek are assigned articles indicating gender, and some words are also inflected like Greek nouns; but the majority, become uninflected neuters, which, anyway, have fewer inflections than feminines or masculines, so that a change in the article is often the only indication of case and syntax.
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.
It consisted mostly of Italian words without their inflections.”
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.).