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    In English, most nouns form their plural with the suffix -s and most verbs form their past tense with the suffix -ed. Verbs also take -s to mark the third person singular present tense and -ing for the present participle. Adjectives compare forms with -er and -est. In addition, English uses sound changes like ablaut, umlaut, and vowel alternation for inflection, as seen in irregular verb conjugations and plural nouns like foot/feet and mouse/mice.

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    In English, most nouns form their plural with the suffix -s and most verbs form their past tense with the suffix -ed. Verbs also take -s to mark the third person singular present tense and -ing for the present participle. Adjectives compare forms with -er and -est. In addition, English uses sound changes like ablaut, umlaut, and vowel alternation for inflection, as seen in irregular verb conjugations and plural nouns like foot/feet and mouse/mice.

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    Examples in English: Number Affix Tense

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    In English, most nouns form their plural with the suffix -s and most verbs form their past tense with the suffix -ed. Verbs also take -s to mark the third person singular present tense and -ing for the present participle. Adjectives compare forms with -er and -est. In addition, English uses sound changes like ablaut, umlaut, and vowel alternation for inflection, as seen in irregular verb conjugations and plural nouns like foot/feet and mouse/mice.

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    In English most nouns are inflected for number with the inflectional plural affix -s (as in "dog" "dog-s"), and most English verbs are inflected for tense with the inflectional past tense affix -ed (as in "call" "call-ed"). English also inflects verbs by affixation to mark the third person singular in the present tense (with -s), and the present participle (with -ing). English short adjectives are inflected to mark comparative and superlative forms (with -er and -est respectively). In addition, English also shows inflection by ablaut (sound change, mostly in verbs) and umlaut (a particular type of sound change, mostly in nouns), as well as long-short vowel alternation. For example: Write, wrote, written (marking by ablaut variation, and also suffixing in the participle) Sing, sang, sung (ablaut) Foot, feet (marking by umlaut variation) Mouse, mice (umlaut) Child, children (ablaut, and also suffixing in the plural)

    For details, see English plural, English verbs, and English irregular verbs.

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