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Inflection |
The change in form of words to indicate the part they play in a sentence |
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Inflection of nouns |
Indicates the number, case, and gender |
,,s for plural, 's for plurals for your it's.., es plural gases, ies plural for y words ladies,except plural of proper names with regular plurals flys, Marys...,v for f endings calves.., es for o endings echoes..., O endings s plural bamboos,etc., Pages36th 41 |
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Inflection of case |
Form or position of a noun or pronoun which makes it as the subject or the object of a verb, adjective, preposition, playing the part or adverb |
Four cases nominative, accusative, dative, genitive |
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Nominative case |
Indicates the subject, predicate, or noun in direct address |
Instead of the wind blows it's the winds blow.,a verb that Agrees with subject in number and person., nominative address has peculiar intonation and independent position in the sentence"O Mary go and call the cattle home!" |
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Accusative inflection |
Marks a noun or pronoun as the object of the transitive verb or preposition, or adjective by placing the noun or pronoun after the verb, preposition, or adjective |
The dog bit my "brother," and"me".., he is eager "for gain."or as a modifier of an adverb indicating the direction of an activity toward an object He stayed an hour, a noun or pronoun which is predicated of an accusative subject is in the accusative the president made him "a general."I supposed it to be "me." |
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Dative inflection |
Indicates that an action or feeling is directed toward a person or thing to his or it's advantage or disadvantage |
Two ways to do so: place the noun or pronoun between the verb and an accusative.., the mother is making "her boy" a new coat the dative is distinguished by it's position not it's form..., Or place the inflectional preposition and noun together" the mother is making a new coat "for her boy John", she will give his old one "to his little brother." |
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Genitive inflection |
The genitive that modifies a noun or pronoun plays the part of an adjective |
Origin, possessive, composition, characteristic, measure, a whole from which a part is taken: Shakespeare's drama, a flock of birds, an hour's delay, a piece of bread |
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Gender inflection |
Similar to how Latin languages treat their words with gender but not used as much as it once was |
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Inflections of pronouns |
They have the same as case in nouns |
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Inflection of personal pronouns |
Three persons the speaker person, the one spoken to, and then the spoken of. |
He she it:nominative, him her it:accusative.,to him to her to it: dative, if him of her of it:genitive page 44 for plurals of the same |
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Inflections of reflexive, reciprocal, and relative pronouns |
Reflexive endings have no change are preceded by to or for in dative inflections.., reciprocal have the old s genitive along with the new of genitive they never weary of each other's company.., relative: stands before the verb the dative(to ,for) and genitive(of) have inflectional prepositions before them as case signs |
He is "that" boy, dative: this is the tree in the shade of which we often rest genitive prepositional phrase....pages47-87 for the rest of inflections of verbs, adverbs, adjectives etc., |
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Uninflected parts of speech |
Prepositions, conjunctions, interjections |
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