Timeline for Why do some words change inflection when used differently?
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| Apr 5, 2018 at 22:15 | history | edited | herisson |
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| Nov 14, 2015 at 0:54 | comment | added | herisson | I think you mean "stress" rather than "inflection." (Stress is which syllable is emphasized and accented; inflection is the suffixes and other changes used to make different forms of a word, like the -s suffix on plural nouns.) Am I right? | |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 0:40 | comment | added | herisson | Can "compare" be a noun? I wasn't familiar with that. I guess in phrases like "beyond compare"? I guess "repair" is a clear example that is more commonly used as a noun. | |
| Nov 13, 2015 at 21:59 | comment | added | Anonym | Note that you are talking about the placement of stress, not about inflexion. | |
| Nov 13, 2015 at 20:58 | history | edited | Trevor D | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2015 at 20:45 | answer | added | Greg Lee | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 13, 2015 at 20:18 | history | asked | Trevor D | CC BY-SA 3.0 |