Imperatives, inflections, declensions and the simple complexity of the English language (grammar)
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In English, we use many "inflections", or stem-changes (called "declensions") to words in order to indicate case, gender, tense, voice, etc. For example, we might say in English, "one dog" and "two dogs", so the "s" indicates plurality. Or, we might add an apostrophe + s to a noun to indicate possession, as in "dog's bone". Similarly, we change verbs to express "person" (I, you, he/she/it, we, they) or tense, such as "I peel" v. "I peeled". | In English, we use many "inflections", or stem-changes (called "declensions") to words in order to indicate case, gender, tense, voice, etc. For example, we might say in English, "one dog" and "two dogs", so the "s" indicates plurality. Or, we might add an apostrophe + s to a noun to indicate possession, as in "dog's bone". Similarly, we change verbs to express "person" (I, you, he/she/it, we, they) or tense, such as "I peel" v. "I peeled". | ||