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What does 'inflection' mean?

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Inflection - a change in pitch or loudness of the voice, the act or result of curving or bending, the change of form that words undergo to mark case, gender, number, tense, person, mood, or voice.

Inflections also include changes in ending and changes within the stem, such as:

he - him - his

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