We should know that it is to the study of the roots and inflections of the Sanskrit language that we owe our national salvation.
He liked the quiet intimacy of Ingpen's voice, whose delicate inflections indicated highly cultivated sensibilities.
There are many formativeinflections and suffixes indicating the plural, etc.
Pronunciations and inflections differ as do the words in meaning in many cases.
The upper range is evidently the Arabic verbal root [Illustration] "To be white," whence all the inflections of brilliancy and whiteness.
Though more than half a mile distant, they recognised the deep tones and inflections of Kafir voices, whose owners were evidently coming down to the river on the same side as themselves.
He could hear the deep inflections of voices carrying on a languid conversation, and occasionally the shrill squall of an infant.
The part of speech to which a word belongs is determined only by its function in the sentence, and inflections simply mark the offices and relations of words.
As a substitute for other inflections we prefix auxiliary verbs, and make what are called compound, or periphrastic, forms.
Latin, the parent of the Norman-French, in order that you may see how cases and the inflections to mark them have been dropped in English.
English verbs have few inflections compared with those of other languages.
The adjective, however, is varied in sense the same as when the inflections er and est are added.
The original root-forms are short and always recognizable; the full words grow from these by an orderly if intricate system of inflections and the forming of derivatives.
The inflections are, it must be admitted, intricate.
It is demonstrable that these inflections and cadences are not accidental or arbitrary: but that they are determined by certain general principles of vital action; and that their expressiveness depends on this.
The various inflections of voice which accompany feelings of different kinds and intensities, are the germs out of which Music is developed.
This preference extends to the inflections of both.
Here one of our few surviving inflections was displaced by an analytical devise, and yet the man's meaning was quite clear, and it would be absurd to say that his sentence violated the inner spirit of English.
During the highly inflected stage of a language the parts of speech are sharply distinct, but when inflections fall off they tend to disappear.
The Noun and Adjective/--The only inflections of the noun remaining in English are those for number and for the genitive, and so it is in these two regions that the few variations to be noted in vulgar American occur.
How far English has proceeded toward the complete obliteration of inflections is shown by such barbarous forms of it as Pigeon English and Beach-la-Mar, in which the final step is taken without appreciable loss of clarity.
Explain the opposite Inflections on antithetical words and phrases.
Compare the curved inflections in the cobbler's speeches in Act I.
The oppositeinflections on antithetical words or phrases are also due to this law of completeness and incompleteness.
The true view then of different forms for the same idea is not that the inflectionsare unlike, but that the quasi-inflectional circumlocutions differ from each other in different dialects.
Lastly, inflections are replaced by prepositions and auxiliary verbs, as is the case in the Italian and French when compared with the Latin.
The great extent to which those who look in Latin for the same inflectionsthat occur in Greek, must look for them under new names.
The Australian is one of those languages (so valuable in general philology) where we find inflections in the act of forming, and that from the agglutination not of affixes, suffixes and prefixes, but of words.
This peculiar gift has been developed into a language, for it is by those wonderful inflectionsof the voice in barking that the dog has learnt to make man understand his meaning.
The sound was not a howl, or like one; it came from deep in his throat, and was deep in tone, inflections being produced by movements of the jaw at the same time.
For a crunodal cubic the six inflections which disappear are two of them real, the other four imaginary, and there remain two imaginary inflections and one real inflection.
It may be noticed that the nineinflections of a cubic curve represented by an equation with real coefficients are three real, six imaginary; the three real inflections lie in a line, as was known to Newton and Maclaurin.
For an acnodal cubic the six imaginary inflections disappear, and there remain three realinflections lying in a line.
For a cuspidal cubic the six imaginary inflectionsand two of the real inflections disappear, and there remains one real inflection.
We may further consider the inflections and double tangents, as well in general as in regard to cubic and quartic curves.
It approaches more nearly to Irish and preserves the inflections much better than the speech of the north.
When we turn to theinflections we find that analogy has here played a much greater part than in Irish.
Whatever alters the capacity for absorption and radiation, at places lying under the same parallel of latitude, gives rise to inflections in the isothermal lines.
How melodious their joyous inflections were, compared with the harsh syllables she was accustomed to hear from the children of the pavements.
The principal cases, which have more complete inflections than the secondary, express the two chief relations of the noun in the sentence, those of the subject and of the object.
The inflections extend through all the persons and numbers of the past and future tenses by means of the suffixed particles shown in the present tense.
Even if the Normans had not come to England, the dropping of the inflectionswould not have ceased.
To utter with musical inflections or modulations of voice.
Rising inflections may also be emphatic, but their effect is not so great as that of falling inflections.
The inflections of the voice, consist of those peculiar slides which it takes in pronouncing syllables, words, or sentences.
Inflections are variations in pitch, and are "the tune of the thought.
That the voice is naturally expressive is shown in the fact that even where there is no possible suggestion of cultivation we instinctively read the broad outlines of meaning and feeling in the tones and inflections of the voice.
The character of speech depends upon numberless delicate inflections and harmonies.
One of the boys got up, put his hands in his pockets and walked aimlessly about, kicking at pebbles and whistling; the girls' voices took on drawlinginflections of careless indifference.
When she spoke, however, the illusion vanished; Gertrude employed the "chewing gum" accent in all its undiscipline of inflectionsand jawful mouthings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inflections" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
