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nouna manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
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nounthe patterns of stress and intonation in a language
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noundeviation from a straight or normal coursetype of:
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nouna change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
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Definition that contains inflection
- case nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
- strong of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection
- weak (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection
- mood verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- agreement the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
- ending the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
- analysis the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'
- mode verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- tensed having inflections to indicate tense
- termination the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)