deviation from a straight or normal course a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
{i} curve, bend; change in pitch or tone of the voice; addition of a suffix or other element to the basic form of a word to change its meaning or function (Grammar)
An inflection is a type of bound morpheme, with a grammatical function For example, the suffix "-ing" is an inflection which, when attached to a verb, forms the present participle form of the verb Other inflections in English form the other parts of verbs (such as the past tense and past participle forms), and the plural of nouns Some words inflect regularly, and some inflect irregularly, like the plural form "children" of "child", and the past tense and past participle forms "broke" and "broken" of the verb "break"
In grammar, an inflection is a change in the form of a word that shows its grammatical function, for example a change that makes a noun plural or makes a verb into the past tense
production of all those variants from a stem, which occur in syntactically determined environments This process does not involve a change of the wordclass and the stress pattern
The bound morpheme used to indicate the grammatical function of a word e g , -'s to indicate the possessive as in boy's, or -s or -es to indicate the plural
Bound morpheme that expresses grammatical information E g , -as, an important inflection of a-stem strong masculine verbs in OE expresses nominative or accusative case and plural number; it is attached to nouns to mark that case and number In Middle English, this inflection is changed to /s/ by sound change and just signals [+plural] and then is extended to other noun classes by analogy This inflection is, in fact, the ancestor of our ModE plural inflection for nouns