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| What is an inflected ending on a word? | A group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning: -s bat bats, -es mix mixes, -ing snow snowing, -ed visit visited. |
| How is an inflected verb used in the English language? | The -s inflection indicates the present tense, and the -ed inflection indicates the past tense. Verb endings also indicate person |
| Which languages are called synthetic? | Languages that have some degree of inflection. These can be highly inflected, such as Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, or weakly inflected, such as English. |
| Which languages are called polysynthetic? | Languages that are so inflected that a sentence can consist of a single highly inflected word (such as many American Indian languages) |
| Which languages are known as agglutinative languages? | Languages in which each inflection conveys only a single grammatical category, such as Finnish |
| Which languages are known as fusional languages? | Languages in which a single inflection can convey multiple grammatical roles (such as both nominative case and plural, as in Latin and German) |
| Which languages are known as analytic or isolating? | Languages such as Mandarin Chinese that never use inflections |
| How the inflection of verbs is called? | conjugation |
| How the inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns is called? | declension |
| What is an inflected language? | a language that changes the form or ending of some words when the way in which they are used in sentences changes |
