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| case1 |
in grammar, the syntactical relationship of a noun, pronoun, or adjective to other words in a sentence, indicated by its inflection or its position in the sentence. [1/9 definitions] |
| flection |
in grammar, inflection. [1/4 definitions] |
| Indo-European |
of or pertaining to a family of languages that share such characteristics as inflection, grammatical number, and usu. gender, including most European and many Indian and Southeast Asian languages. [1/5 definitions] |
| inflect |
in grammar, to alter the form of (a word) by inflection. [1/4 definitions] |
| inflectional |
of, relating to, having, or marked by inflection. |
| irregular |
in grammar or spelling, being an exception to the general rules, as of inflection. [1/10 definitions] |
| mood2 |
in grammar, a kind of verb inflection that indicates the way in which the speaker intends an utterance to be understood, whether as a wish or supposition, a demand, or a fact; mode. |
| parse |
in grammar, to describe (a word or group of words) by explaining the part of speech, inflection, function, and the like. [1/3 definitions] |
| periphrastic |
formed with an auxiliary verb or a particle instead of an inflection, such as "it did ring" rather than "it rang". [1/2 definitions] |
| punctuation |
the process or an instance of adding certain marks, such as the question mark or comma, to groups of written words so as to indicate a pause, subordination, or quotation, or otherwise clarify meaning or inflection. [1/2 definitions] |
| regular |
in grammar, having or following the most common pattern of inflection, construction, or the like. [1/12 definitions] |
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