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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Linguistics Studies

changing verbs linguistical term

How is called the change of verbs linguistically?
How is called the change of adjectives and adverbs linguistically?

many thanks in advance for those terms.
  

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If I understand your question correctly, the general term is inflection. wait, waited, waiting; fast, faster, fastest. These are inflected forms.

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  • If I understand your question correctly, the general term is inflection.
  • wait, waited, waiting; fast, faster, fastest.
  • These are inflected forms.
  • Specifically for verbs, the display of the various inflected forms is called a conjugation.
  • I wait; you wait; he waits; we wait; you wait; they wait.
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If I understand your question correctly, the general term is inflection.

wait, waited, waiting; fast, faster, fastest. These are inflected forms.

Specifically for verbs, the display of the various inflected forms is called a conjugation.

I wait; you wait; he waits; we wait; you wait; they wait.
I waited; you waited; ...

I have waited; ...
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