"We almost uniformly confine the inflexion to the last or the latter noun.

"As the period has a beginning and end within itself it implies an inflexion.

He is moreover marvellously ingenious in replacing the ordinary inflexions of nouns and verbs, as detailed in our grammars, by more exact analogies, or convenient forms of his own devising.

If I had a clever boy to teach a language, I would read some interesting book with him, telling him the meaning of words, until he got a big stock of ordinary words; I would just teach him the common inflexions; and when he could read an easy book, and write the language intelligibly, then I would try to teach him a few niceties and idioms, and make him look out for differences of style and language.

Ce n'est pas ma faute; je me rappelais toutes vos inflexions.