From the little which I have written, you will collect that the inflexions and variations of the second person in particular can only be learnt by use, not by rules.
The tones vary according to the subject of the song, with many inflexions of the sound, and, if I may so express myself, a good deal of shaking.
The voice should rise and fall, and be varied in its inflexions in that agreeable manner which is so marked in good orators and dramatic elocutionists.
Of these inflexions not one in ten can be traced in any modern tongue throughout the whole of Asia.
Again, the words of this same language, minus its inflexions, are rife and common in the very tongues where the inflexions are wanting; in some cases amounting to nine-tenths of the language.
Spring gave cooling inflexions to the lady's voice and made her express herself with warmth and with a shamelessly libertine air.
The grammar of his works shows English with a large number of inflexions still remaining.
Many of the Old English inflexions still survive in his style.
Gregory of Tours confesses that he was habitually falling into that sort of error, the misplacinginflexions and prepositions, which constituted the chief original difference of the rustic tongue from pure Latinity.
The prepositions were used with no regard to the proper inflexions of nouns and verbs.
We find these same inflexions in the strata near Bonneville, at Nante d'Arpenas in Savoy, and in the valley of Estaubee in the Pyrenees.
Many things, which appear to us at present inflexions of a radical, have perhaps been in their origin affixes, of which there have barely remained one or two consonants.
This unequal distribution of land and water has the greatest influence on the distribution of heat over the surface of the globe, on the inflexions of the isothermal lines, and the climateric phenomena in general.
Particular inflexions of the verb indicate beforehand the nature of the object, whether it be animate or inanimate, singular or plural.
At mating time the hippo's voice Betrays inflexions hoarse and odd, But every week we hear rejoice The Church, at being one with God.
For, take a word in any language, which admits of many inflexions and variations, and, after we have made it undergo all its evolutions, it will be hard if it does not in some degree approximate.
In the declension of substantives the only remnant of case-formation by means of inflexions is the ending used to form the Genitive Singular and the Plural.
The inflexions of the verb in the singular are of value in enabling us to discriminate between the several varieties of the Midland dialect.
The peasantry of Cheshire and Lancashire still preserve the verbalinflexions which prevailed in the fourteenth century, and conjugate their verbs in the present indicative according to the following model:-- Singular.
The work is evidently a genuine West-Midland production,[9] having most of the peculiarities of vocabulary and inflexions that are found in these Alliterative Poems.
There is, perhaps, no better test for distinguishing these dialects from one another than the verbal inflexions of the plural number in the present tense, indicative mood.
But we must recollect that he was necessarily more ignorant than any schoolboy of Greek grammar, and had no table of the inflexions of verbs and nouns before his eyes, which might have suggested to him the distinction.
So in language there are the cross influences of meaning and sound, of logic and grammar, of differing analogies, of words and the inflexions of words, which often come into conflict with each other.
Number of terminations| Number of inflexions | Power.
This is by no means difficult to learn except in the nice intonations orinflexions of voice, but the written character is, perhaps of all others, the most abstruse and most perplexing both to the eye and to the memory.
The sounds and various inflexions incidental to languages in general, are not necessary to be attended to in the study of the Chinese characters.
Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes above described?
Observations concerning the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, and the Colours made thereby.
And that there is such a Virtue, seems to follow from the Reflexions and Inflexions of the Rays of Light.
And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?
To Lady Agatha those inflexions were not displeasing, partly because, like Mr. Herman himself in general, she had not a perception of shades; and partly because it never occurred to her to compare them with any other tones.
Susceptible even as Mrs. Lemon was he made no secret of the fact that Lady Agatha’s voice was music to him, his ear being much more accessible than his own inflexions would have indicated.
A few movements of the body, a few simple cries and whistles, or inflexions of voice, would suffice for their purpose.
A few only would be at first made use of, and these would be supplemented by inflexions of the voice: presently they would increase in number, variety, and appropriateness, with the increase of needs and of the efforts made to speak.
Thus the inflexions of all verbs in any degree irregular appear in their orders, and in an appendix a copious parsing index is given.
There are, then, only very few different signs which they employ among their fellows, so that some movements of the body or of certain of its parts, certain hisses and cries raised by the simple inflexions of the voice, suffice them.
Its inflexions are heavy and monotonous and the sentences lack concentration and variety.
It may mean that texts handed down in some Indian dialect which was neither Sanskrit nor Pali were rewritten with Sanskrit orthography and inflexions while preserving much of the original vocabulary.
And it is, in fact, the different stages through which a language has passed on its road to the formation of inflexions which settles the class in which it is to be placed among the various tongues spoken by mankind.
But in Semitic languages the root consists of the consonants only, and the inflexions are produced by internal changes, changes of the vowels which belong to a consonant.
I have called this growth of inflexions the third stage.
Aryan tongues the radical remains almost unchanged, and the inflexions are made ab extra; but in the Semitic language the inflexions are made by changes of vowel sound within the framework of the root consonants.
But when we turn to a wider study of the various tongues in use among mankind we find that this process of forming inflexions is a very slow one, that it, in its turn, has gone through many stages.
These inflexions are of no meaning in themselves, they have no existence even in themselves as words.
It is right here, therefore, to remind the reader that it is quite upon the cards that further research may end by upsetting the generally accepted theory of the growth of inflexions in language.
But far more important in the history of language is the joining of the meaningless or auxiliary words on to other words of the first, the significant class, whereby in the course of time the inflexions of language have been formed.
It was found that the violin was capable of simulating all the subtle inflexions of song, whether of passion or tenderness, and players sighed for an ideal bow that should be tongue-like in its response to the performer's emotion.
Pure liquid tone, the inflexions suggested rather than insisted on, clear phrasing and an avoidance of all extravagance are the hall marks of an artist, and not the possession of brilliant technique alone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inflexions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
