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Ali.h Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Declension vs Inflection
Is there a difference between the terms declension and inflection or are they one and the same?
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Hello, Ali-- and welcome to English Forums. Good question. Many people use them interchangeably.
- Hello, Ali-- and welcome to English Forums.
- Good question.
- Many people use them interchangeably.
- However: Declension in the strict sense is of nouns, and it doesn't happen in English except with plural ( dog, dogs ) and pronouns ( he, him, his, himself )-- and some include the genitive ( dog's, dogs' ).
- Inflection includes declension; it relates to any class of words (in English, limited to nouns and verbs) that change form (but not class) for time, person, etc: run, runs, ran, running .
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Hello, Ali-- and welcome to English Forums. Good question. Many people use them interchangeably. However:
Declension in the strict sense is of nouns, and it doesn't happen in English except with plural (dog, dogs) and pronouns (he, him, his, himself)-- and some include the genitive (dog's, dogs').
Inflection includes declension; it re
Declension in the strict sense is of nouns, and it doesn't happen in English except with plural (dog, dogs) and pronouns (he, him, his, himself)-- and some include the genitive (dog's, dogs').
Inflection includes declension; it re
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