Which preposition to use with inflection
The expressive play of his facial muscles has gone, the varying inflections of voice have gone, but we still possess the self-registered and characteristic tracings of Charles Dickens's hand-gesture.
" Kate smiled at the astute mingling of sly fun and questioning implied in the gently rising inflection in this query.
But out of the suggestions and reminiscences of Greek lines they made a rigid and inflexible grammar of their own,a grammar to suit the mailed clang of Roman speech, which, in its cruel martial strength, sought no refinements, no delicate inflections from a distant Acropolis.
With a few exceptions, and those not parallel to the examples just given, we almost uniformly, in complex names, confine the inflection to the last or the latter noun."Dr.
Another mode, delicate and refined in its character, is to suffix the inflection for perfect past tense, bun, to a man's name.
"The Conjugation of a Verb is its different variations or inflections throughout the Moods and Tenses.
"The verb OUGHT has no other inflection than OUGHTEST, and this is nearly obsolete.
Each PREPARATORY command is enunciated distinctly, with a rising inflection at the end, and in such manner that the command of EXECUTION may he more energetic.
We all waited in silence for a long time; at length a middle-aged man, with a broad-brimmed hat, arose and responded in a sing-song tone: "All I have to say is, if a hen can crow, let her crow," emphasizing "crow" with an upward inflection on several notes of the gamut.