Sentences (inflect forms if necessary; for example, use the past tense, participle, or infinitive of a verb instead of its present tense): It was into law.

"No salmon?" "No," said Monona, inflected up, chin pertly pointed.

render curved &c adj.; flex, bend, curve, incurvate^; inflect; deflect, scatter [Phys.]; refract (light) 420; crook; turn, round, arch, arcuate, arch over, concamerate^; bow, curl, recurve, frizzle.

It was all very intangible, of course, just the way she inflected the sentence, "You see, I haven't any children."

And so she dramatizes and inflects it, trying to make the point visible to her apparent also to her hearers.

It will make sense when inflected with the pronouns; as, I write, thou writ'st, he writes; we write, you write, they write.

Consequently, the nouns and pronouns of those languages, and also their adjectives and participles, (which last are still farther inflected by the three genders,) are varied by many different terminations unknown to our tongue.

They make no more use of the pronoun ye, or of the verbal termination eth, than do people of fashion; nor do they, in using the pronoun thou, or their improper nominative thee, ordinarily inflect with st or est the preterits or the auxiliaries of the accompanying verbs, as is done in the solemn style.

Dr. Johnson, indeed, made the preterit subjunctive like the indicative; and this may have induced the author to change his plan, and inflect this part of the verb with st.

What confusion the practice must make in the language, especially when we come to inflect this part of the verb with st or est, has already been suggested.

In direct contradiction to himself, he proceeds to inflect the verb as follows: "I work,

I have before shown, that several of the "best ancient writers" did not inflect the verb were, but wrote "thou were;" and, surely, "the analogy of formation," requires that the subjunctive be not inflected.

Our poets use the possessive case much more frequently than prose writers, and occasionally inflect words that are altogether invariable in prose; as, "Eager that last great chance of war he waits, Where either's fall determines both their fates.

13.If need is ever an auxiliary, the essential difference between an auxiliary and a principal verb, will very well account for the otherwise puzzling fact, that good writers sometimes inflect this verb, and sometimes do not; and that they sometimes use to after it, and sometimes do not.

In the two places in which the etymology and the syntax of this verb are examined, I have cited from proper sources more than twenty examples in which to is used after it, and more than twenty others in which the verb is not inflected in the third person singular.

"To the irregular verbs are to be added the defective; which are not only wanting in some of their parts, but are, when inflected, irregular.

57;) but Dr. Alexander Murray, exhibiting it in an other form, not adapted to this opinion, makes it the neuter of a declinable adjective, or pronoun, inflected from the masculine, thus: "He, heo hita, this"Hist. of Lang., Vol.

mood, that good writers sometimes inflect the verb, and sometimes do not, and that they sometimes use to after it, and sometimes do not, how may be accounted for three authorized forms of expression, with respect to the verb.

"He need not fear," if admitted to be right, is of the potential mood; in which no verb is inflected in the third person.

It confounds things known to be different,mere stress with elevation or depression,and may lead to the supposition, that to accent a syllable, is to inflect the voice upon it.

Nouns and many pronouns are not inflected for person, but most grammarians attribute person to them because the context of the sentence in which they are used shows what persons they represent.

Of the indefinites only two, one and other, are inflected.

Comparison of Adjectives.+With the exception of the words this and that, adjectives are not inflected for number, and none are inflected for case.

Comparison of Adjectives.+With the exception of the words this and that, adjectives are not inflected for number, and none are inflected for case.

Person and Number.+In Latin, or any other highly inflected language, there are many terminations to indicate differences in person and number, but in English there is but one in common use, s in the third person singular: