What are the inflections of nouns?

Answer 1

Inflection is the addition of an extra letter or letters to signal the grammatical form of a word. The inflections found in the English language that are used with nouns are the plural -s or -as and the possessive -'s.

Answer 2

The word inflection means to express a grammatical function or attribute such as tense, mood, person, number, or gender. You can use it in a sentence like, the teenage girl sounded funny because of the use of inflection on some of her words.

Answer 3

It is the attachment of grammatical markers to a noun as affixes or as sound changes. English nouns hardly inflect at all: only by adding the grammatical marker -s to indicate the plural and the grammatical marker -'s (which sounds exactly the same) to indicate the genitive (possessive). In the sentence "We went back to get Jason's guns" we see "Jason" inflected by the genitive marker and "gun" inflected by the plural marker. Some English nouns show the plural by changing vowel sounds: man and men for example.

Other languages have much more inflected nouns. Latin and German have inflections to show whether a noun is a subject or a direct object, or an indirect object and so on. English used to do this when it was Old English. Some languages also have more than just singular and plural--sometimes there is a dual where there are exactly two of something. Old English had that too.

Some languages do not inflect their nouns at all, not even for the plural.

Answer 4

ACTUALLY inflections add grammatical meaning to a word, i hate it when people do do what they are supposed to. even if it may be late!